March 2019

I’m Giulia, I have multiple sclerosis and I play sitting volleyball

The Italian player tells her illness and rebirth through sitting volleyball

“I am Giulia Aringhieri, I have multiple sclerosis and now I play sitting volleyball. We need to introduce this discipline to the disabled and able-bodied, it is a duty because promoting sitting means being together and transmitting the values ​​of inclusion of this discipline that has given me new life just when life has given me the most difficult challenge: being together gives us strength, the passion and desire to win keeps us going and that’s why I invite everyone to sit on the field to put the bad memories behind suffering to face the future with the smile of someone who knows he has joined a wonderful family “.

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Sitting Volleyball, return to normality

Italian captain, Alessandra Vitale talks about herself with emotion: “sit and rediscover the taste of normality”

“With great joy I talk about Sitting Volleyball and what it means to me. I owe a lot to this game and I hope that my experience can be an example for all those disabled people who have shut themselves up in their pain. Open up, go out, discover that it is still possible for us. The Sitting Volleyball is a splendid reality through which one can be reborn. This is my message, this is my cry of joy. I was locked in the house with my pain until I started playing sitting. The sitting makes me forget my handicap and my fears. I will never forget that time when, during a workout, I tried to kick the ball to keep it in play with the amputated leg. I felt a strong emotion because for the first time since I had undergone the operation, I had forgotten my handicap. Sitting volley is also and above all this: return to normality ”

 

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