Interview with Diego Saccà, head coach of the Italian women’s rugby sevens team for the 2019 Universiade

“The field of play always tells the truth, besides luck or misfortune, and its verdict is clear. Yesterday’s result tells us we have to do more and better in order to compete at the same level of France and South Africa, two of the strongest top-tier teams in women’s rugby sevens for this tournament.” Diego […]

Kearns and Weber: teammates in California, rivals in Naples

Teammates in college, rivals in the Universiade. It happened to Matilda Kearns (Australia) and Bayley Weber (USA), both coming from Los Angeles’ University of Southern California, facing each other in today’s match between Australia and Unites States, which was won by the Aussies with a score of 11-9. “The team’s performance was excellent – says […]

Studies in biotechnology and 400m in athletics, Italian Virginia Troiani advances to the semi-finals at San Paolo Stadium

“One day I hope to run faster than 53 seconds in the 400m race. As for all other competitions, the World Athletics Championship and the Olympics, we shall see”. At the first tournament in San Paolo Stadium, the venue for athletic competitions at the Napoli 2019 Universiade, Italian athlete Virginia Troiani has not crossed her […]

Women’s Italian water polo team at quarters with four victories, Millo: “Now we can start talking about medals”

“We do not like easy wins”, says Giulia Millo, attacker of the Italian team, after winning with a score of 9-8 against Russia: after 4 victories in 4 matches, the Italian players were able to set the record in round B of the Women’s water polo tournament at Napoli 2019. “We were winning 7-3 and […]