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Born in 1998, fabric to sell, breathtaking beauty, powerful crusher: all this is not enough to describe Paola Egonu, Italian women's volleyball champion, pride of our national team and Italy in the world! Paola is a girl who, despite her young age, has already given a lot and we are sure that she will still give it. Here is what there is absolutely to know about our Italian champion!

Who is Paola

Paola Ogechi Egonu was born in Cittadella, in the province of Padua, on December 18, 1998 under the sign of Sagittarius by Dad Ambrose and Mom Eunice, both Nigerians. Paola is Angela's older sister and Andrea and in the family he is not the only one to have a huge passion for volleyball: his cousin Terry is also a volleyball player, both in the Italian and Italian national team.

Volleyball and the fight against racism

Paola starts playing volleyball from an early age and joined a club at just 12 years old, in Cittadella. The Italian champion, who currently plays in the Vakifbank of Istanbul, seems certain that next year he will move to Milan to continue his fabulous career in this sport. Despite being the nascent star of local and international volleyball, Paola is still a victim of racism and this violence had pushed her to say, after the elimination at the 2022 World Cup, that this would have been the last game with the national team. Fortunately, Paola has returned to play, demonstrating how unnecessary racial criticisms are.

Passions and salaries

However, her commitment to sport has allowed her to graduate in accounting and dreams of becoming a lawyer to fight against the injustices that people in difficulty suffer. To date, Paola has given her body and fame for various charity activities. At the levels in which Paola plays, volleyball is a decidedly profitable activity: it is assumed that its card is worth around million euros per season while in Conegliano, according to estimates of the Gazzetta dello Sport, he earned around the four hundred thousand euros.

The palmarès

Paola trained hard to get from the local Volleyball team of Cittadella to the A1 series with Club Italia, a team with which it will create the record of the maximum category of 46 points marked. And the further awards are not lacking. Take your breath: she is the winner of four Italian supercoppes, five Italian cups, best player, winner of the Champions League and two badges. With the blue he will win an Under 18 gold medal, an under 20 bronze medal, in the national team will be silver at the World Grand Prix while at the world championship both bronze and silver to conclude, in 2022, with the gold medal in Volleyball Nations League. And he is only 25 years old ...

Love relationships

It is from 2018 his "coming out" (if we can say so, you will read more why): in an interview with Corriere della Sera he will say that he is engaged to a girl, the volleyball player Katarzyna Skorupa. After leaving Katarzyna, Paola will attend Michał Filip, Polish volleyball player for a few months: «I like people, the genre counts little. He does not ask me if he is a man or a woman, he doesn't matter. I am in love." This is what he says to today.

Curiosity!

There is not only sport for Paola who, among other things, in 2021 was the Olympic bearer: the previous year, in 2020, he lent his voice to the Sognaluna character in the Soul cardboard of Disney. He is very comfortable also in the world of entertainment: in the 2021-2022 season he was co-deductive of Le Iene and in 2023 he co-conducted the third evening of the Sanremo Festival with Amadeus and Gianni Morandi. It is 189 cm high for 79 kg in weight, has 46 foot and has an elevation that leads it to touch over three and a half meters! Forbes magazine inserted her in the most influential European under 30s for her sporting merits, despite the fact that she was not interested in sport as a child: it was said that it was her father who pushed her playing volleyball ...