Strongest National Team Ever?

So strong as to win and dominate and suffering. The female Italvolley beat Turkey at the World Cup in Thailand, And sample worldwide and after two Nations League e Olympic gold, He closes a year – from June 2024 to today – practically perfect. The disconsolate expressions at the end of the game of Gabi in the semifinal e The misery In the final – two of the strongest players in the world – they are of those who think “we did everything we could, but it was not enough”. Because Julio Velasco‘s Italy is not just the power of Egonu e Antropova. Is the charism of Sylla, The technique of Orro, the resilience of Of Gennaro and Captain’s personality Anna Daniesi. It is a set of individuality made group by an extraordinary work of Julio Velascolegend of Italian volleyball.

The Argentine coach has become the third technician in the history of Italian sport to be simultaneously world champion e sample Olympic in office. Before him, they had only succeeded Vittorio Pozzo with the national football team e Ratko Rudic with the Settebello in water polo. A statistics that by law brings Velasco to the Olympus of sport in Italy and the Italvolley for sure between The strongest national teams in sports history blue.

Velasco Olympic and the world champion

Pozzo between 1934 and 1936, Rodic between 1992 and 1994, Velasco between 2024 and 2025. Only they managed to be at the same time champions of the world and Olympic in charge. Pozzo He won a world championship in 1934, the Olympic gold in 1936 (first and unique in the history of Italian football), then still a world championship in 1938 before the stop for the Second World War. Other eras.

Rudic Instead, it is the best coach in the history of water polo: under his guide, in the early 90s, the Settebello has reached the peak of its history. Gold at the Olympics of Barcelona of 1992, gold at the World Cup of Roma of 1994, victory at European of 1993 and 1995, victory in the 1993 World Cup. His national team has won everything and still today is iconic in Italy.

The current Italvolley won two Nations League, the gold in Paris and the World Cup in Thailand. A statistics that assumes even more value if we consider that they have arrived with a strip still open of 36 consecutive victories in official races.

The comparison with the “generation of phenomena”

Julio Velasco He had already touched a similar company. Always in volleyball. Between the 1989 and the 1996 in fact he trained the national Of male volleyball, Starting with a triumph at the Europeans (then hired also in 1993 and 1995) and continuing with 5 World League (1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995) and two World Cup (1990 and 1994). All thanks to the so -called generation of phenomena of Italian volleyball players, who included athletes such as Lorenzo BernardiAndrea Zorzi and Andrea Giani, to name three. An incredible group, which was also elected by the FIVB (the Volley International Federation) as the team of the century.

A path in itself legendary, where, however a piece was missing: the Olympic gold, escaped in the final ad Atlanta 1994 against Holland. Instead, it has succeeded in the women’s Italian Italvolley, who in 14 months won everything he could win and allowed Velasco to become – this time definitively – legend of Italian volleyball. The aforementioned Settebello of the 90s and the generation of phenomena of Velasco in the same period are two iconic national teams for Italian sport and which will be remembered forever. From Sunday, however, in the company of the current selection volleyball female. Who deserves in turn that he is remembered forever.

The strength of the group

Group. It is among the words most used by Italian players in the various interviews and conferences carried out during the World Cup. A forza of the group remarked on several occasions, thanks to a extraordinary work Also in this case of Julio Velasco. Because the women’s volleyball national team was already strong before his arrival and had excellent individuality, among the best in the world. Velasco arrived, he assembled them and made them invincible. Emblematic the move of transform anthropova in “Employment Reserve,” By eliminating that dualism and rivalry that has been talked about in the last year and also allowing the luxury to often keep one on the bench.

A group that From the Olympics to the World Cup he changed very little. In order for both to both Paris 2024 and Thailand there were Egonu and Anthropova, there were changes and Orro dribbled, there were the crushers Sylla, Giovannini and Omoryui, there was the legend of Gennaro as Libero, there were also the Danish and Fahr plants. Always the same to win Olympic gold, dominate two Nations League and now crown an extraordinary path with the victory of the World Cup. Only the European Championship is missingwhich will take place in 2026. That it is legend there are no doubts, but this female Italvolley is The strongest national team in the history of Italian sport? Everyone has his answer, but the question is more than legitimate.