Pina Macrì, from football to the belt: story of a Crotone judoka who also arrives at the Olympics, carrying the name of the city up high. Crotone judo arrived in Tokyo in 2004 with Pina Macrì
A dream that she wanted to realize from an early age. Pina Macri, Antonio’s sister, and the daughter of another goalkeeper, played soccer. She was noticed by the professor Aldo Brugellis, who wanted it in his Judo Calabro. After two years he won the 1989 cadet championship. The story of Pina Macri continues at the Judo Club Cutro, and then formed by Oscar Mario Facente before moving to Ostia. For her a large palmares with gold at the Italian championships and one at the university world championship. Then, in 2004, he participated in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, 48 kg category: “Emotion and a great satisfaction of having crowned a dream that I wanted to realize since childhood“. Then, he tells us: “You have to work hard and believe in it until the end“And to young people who approach this discipline:”If you want you can, trust that the dream will come true “.
