A2 M – Three new additions for Marco Risso's Vela Ancona

Three young additions arrive in Ancona to strengthen coach Marco Risso's team: in fact, arriving at Vela are Nicola Mengoli, born in 2005 in Bologna, who last year played for De Akker in Serie A1, Emiliano Calesini, another 2005-born player from Rimini, last year in Brescia in A2, and Piergiorgio Dottori, born in Perugia in 2007, from Rari Nantes Libertas Perugia. Mengoli and Calesini, among other things, are both former President Bologna, a team in which they were coached in the past by Marco Risso, who therefore knows them well and who wanted them with him in his second season on the Vela Nuoto Ancona bench. Coach Risso himself talks about the new additions: «We have started training again, first in Vallemiano and then again at Passetto. We have completed the team with young players who make us ready for future generational changes, with a view to giving the club a future, as well as a present, with valuable players. All this, of course, while waiting for our best products who are still young, thus introducing quality young players who are more ready than those we have. We are proud that players like Piergiorgio Dottori, who is in the youth national team, came to us, as well as my two former 2020 championship winners with President, and who gained experience, one in Brescia, Calesini, and the other in A1 with De Akker, Mengoli. A choice shared with the club, of course, looking to our future». In the meantime, two young people have left Vela Ancona to join Quinto: they are Delnevo and Santarelli.

Giuseppe Poli
Press Office Vela Nuoto Ancona
Photo: the three young additions to Vela Nuoto Ancona