He made his debut in the SuperLega at 16. The following year he scored his first point in the top continental competition, the Champions League. And while waiting to start working in the gym with Campi Reali Cantù, he is doing an internship with the National Beach Volleyball team led by Paolo Nicolai, silver medal beacher at the 2016 Rio Olympics. This is the identikit of Gaetano Penna, opposite hitter born in 2004, who completes the starting six of President Ambrogio Molteni’s team. Before landing in the shadow of the bell tower of San Paolo, he played two excellent championships, the first in the Banca Macerata jersey, with which he won promotion to the second national category (as well as changing role, from spiker to opposite hitter); in the one just concluded he led Aurispa Links per la Vita Lecce to the Promotion Play Offs.
“Gaetano is among the first players with whom we have made agreements for the next season – confesses Coach Alessio Zingoni –. He is a young guy, born in 2004, he has not been suitable for the opposite role for a long time, but I felt he was extremely willing to continue working to improve. He had an excellent championship in Serie A3 Credem Banca, he improved a lot during the year both in attack and in serving, he had a progression upwards. I felt he was extremely eager to test himself with the higher championship, and he is the first to know that he will have to work hard to be up to the opposites of the championship and in any case of the role, that is, the classic finisher of the majority of the points.
