Santa Fe Luciano De Cecco, captain of the Argentine volleyball team that won the bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, tested positive for coronavirus on the last day of 2021 and spent the New Year isolated in Italy.
“Unfortunately I had to be positive today, right, but I hope they are finishing the year better than they started. For me it was an incredible year with many positive things, some negative, but the balance is above all positive. May 2022 begin the best way “, said the owner of Cucine Lube Civitanova, from the Italian A1 Series, from his social networks TheCecco15.
There are currently many positive cases of Covid-19 in the Italian Super League and particularly in De Cecco’s team, which led to the suspension of the matches that were supposed to play on December 29 and January 2 and 6.
In addition to the Argentine, Simone Anzani, Rok Jeroncic, Robertlandy Simon, Marlon Yant, Fabio Balaso and Daniele Sottile had already been infected.
“By results one of the best years of my career ends,” explained De Cecco, who with Lube won the Italian Cup and the Italian Super League 2021 in the first months of the year, without an audience due to the pandemic.
“Adversity also made us stronger when we had to face the Argentine National Team season. We spent a lot of time away from the country, on a very long tour, and we overcame every personal or group problem that arose. The love for the jersey made us get out of it. best of us and each one of us was able to contribute to the greatest achievement of our careers: the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics, “wrote Luciano.
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