It will be Italy-Croatia in the Olympic water polo final: Campaign against Rudic. There will be a lot of history in this match. The legend of the settebello comes to London in the Games of 1948. The national team of Gildo Arena and Fofò Buonocore won the gold medal. And Cesare Rubini, Olympian also in basketball and legendary coach of Simmenthal Milano, is also on the field. Then Italy will win again in Rome in 1960 with the national team of Geppino D'Altrui and Eraldo Pizzo. He will reply with the victory of 1992 in Barcelona with the national team led by Rudic who will lead our opponents tomorrow. In the tank, in addition to the son of D'Altrui and today's Rai commentator Francesco Postiglione, there was also Campagna. We will only win the match after a certain number of overtimes. In short, tomorrow's final will be a luxury one.
Which was joined by Italy after a strategically perfect tournament. We started quietly and we also lost, just against Croatia in the group stage. But then the crescendo began. We beat the Hungarian masters in the quarterfinals and we did it again last night against the very strong Serbians. Almost perfect match. Always in the lead (with the exception of a 1-2 midway through the first half), great administration of time and lead with ball possession, ability to contain the Serbs when we were outnumbered and hit cynically with the extra man . A great Fellugo in direction and Giorgetti, Gallo and the others careful not to waste opportunities. Finally, the anthology "Bedouin" (shooting with his back to the goal taking the ball at the edge of the water) by Premus. But Italy has shown great ability above all in the ability to keep the score low (9 to 7 in the final), thus containing the attack of the most prolific team in the tournament. Now the match against Rudic's Croatia. Let us remember 1948: London usually tells us right.
In volleyball, however, Berruto's Italy didn't make it. Brazil played an almost perfect game without making any mistakes: Sergio's free throw was great, as was Bruno's direction and Dante, Lucas and Wallace's dunks. Now we will look for bronze in the final with Bulgaria who have already beaten us in the group stage. We can do it because Italy first seen winning against the United States and then honorably losing against Brazil is something else.
