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Betrothed they had already been for a few weeks, now we are at the choice of wedding rings. Paola Egonu and Vero Volley Milano are close to closing an agreement (which until a few months ago seemed unthinkable) for the return to Italy of the national team’s opponent and Vakifbank Istanbul, fresh protagonist at the Sanremo Festival where he also spoke of the desire to return to the blue after the October outburst at the World Cup. From here to the wedding – the signing would arrive in April and the official announcement in May-June, at the end of the championships and the Champions League – only Scandicci (who has purchasing power and ambition, but not yet at the level of Milan, despite Sunday’s success) could take on the role of Don Rodrigo. Because Vakif, despite having received no from Boskovic (he is renewing with Eczacibasi Istanbul) and Vargas (ready to split again between China and Fenerbahce), now seems determined to carry on a real technical revolution.

Paola Egonu in Milan, that’s why it would be perfect for everyone

Paola Egonu’s experience in Turkey, therefore, is destined to end after a year. The club coached by Giovanni Guidetti will not exercise the renewal clause by 31 March and the blue will be free to sign with another team. The contacts between Vero Volley (which had already courted the blue in 2019) and the prosecutor Marco Raguzzoni they have been going on for weeks and the offer (in Istanbul he earns around one million euros) is on the table. Egonu in Milan, on the other hand, would be the perfect solution for both parties involved: the blue would be in the ideal place to continue to cultivate her ambitions (both volleyball and all the others that look to the world of entertainment), the club would put one of the strongest players on the market into its workforce, but also the best possible testimonial to promote that definitive transfer to Milan which inevitably raises the bar of objectives. Starting with that scudetto lost in the final last year and which President Marzari’s club wants to dream of again in a few months.

His old Conegliano becomes an opponent

On the same road to the tricolor, however, there will be at least Scandicci And Conegliano (opponent of Gaspari’s team on Sunday evening at the Allianz Cloud in Milan in the re-edition of the championship final nine months ago). That Conegliano with which Egonu won everything between 2019 and 2022 and which he is continuing to win – to date the Italian Super Cup, the Italian Cup and the Club World Cup – even without her. That Conegliano where you shared the dressing room with Miriam Sylla and Raphaela Folie, now pivots of Vero Volley. To reassemble in the Lombard capital – together with the setter Alessia Orro – the backbone of Mazzanti’s national team. Waiting for certainties on the opponent’s blue future, in the year of the European Championship (opening match at the Arena di Verona on August 15th, group in Florence and final phase in Brussels) and the Olympic qualifying tournament, the great goal of 2024. Of all Italy of volleyball. And by Paola Egonu.