Taismary Aguero is a former Cuban Women’s Volleyball Olympian who “left Cuba” to become a naturalized Italian citizen, now playing for the Italian Women’s National Olympic Volleyball team.
Telling Andrea Zorzi the details of her decision to leave her birth country, after a volleyball tournament in Europe, and how she prepared her bags and never returned home. With a made for television life story, Taismary Aguero has experienced a lot that life has to offer and has done it with a lot of class and determination.
Andrea Zorzi is one of the world’s most famous and highly accomplished men’s volleyball players.
Andrea has made a total of 325 presences with the Italian men’s national team. A silver medalist in the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, Zorzi has played for almost all the major volleyball clubs of Italy, including Maxicono Parma and Sisley Treviso, where he won many titles. In 1991 the FIVB named Andrea Zorzi, known internationally as “Zorro”, the World's Best Player”.
Currently, Andrea Zorzi is a freelance journalist and technical commentator, working as a special endorser and web content creator in partnership with the FIVB - reporting, writing, and interviewing the world’s most elite coaches and players, providing an innovative and much broader technical analysis of the FIVB’s top 2007 events specifically the World League, World Grand Prix and World Cup.
One of the top players in the world, who before turning 30, has played for two different countries’ national teams, Andrea Zorzi sits down to ask the following questions of this world class volleyball player.
1) When and where were you born?
2) Did you practice any other sport?
3) Are any other members of your family sportsmen?
4) Did you improve fast?
5) In Cuba in which position did you play?
6) Nowadays the athletes are less “universal”. Do you agree?
7) What is your best Volleyball memory in Cuba?
8) …and the worst defeat?
9) …and then you left Cuba.
10) Did your parents know about your decision?
11) Could you recall how you left the national team?
12) Could you tell us the name of the friend who helped you?
13) Would you make the same choice again?
14) What is the best Italian memory you have?
15) …and when a baby?
16) The most painful memory?
17) Who will win the next Olympic Games?
18) Could you describe Massimo Barbolini, your coach?
Andrea Zorzi’s, years of playing in elite, world class competition, his affable personality, his insider’s knowledge of the game coupled with the respect of the players and coaches he interviews, makes him the perfect volleyball tour guide “to follow” for the volleyball coach, player or fan looking to really get behind the scenes and discover the process world class teams, players and coaches take when developing their strategic and tactical plans for their matches.
By asking the questions that other journalists don’t - Zorzi invites us to “Follow Him” on his unique multimedia journey behind the doors of his exclusive volleyball “spogliatoi” locker room.
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April Chapple is a columnist for USA Volleyball, the American Volleyball Coaches Association Coaching Volleyball magazine, a contributor to Active,.com/volleyball, and has authored numerous playing and coaching volleyball articles. Look for her upcoming ebook "How to Stop Serving Like a Wimp". She can be reached at april@volleyballvoices.com.
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