On August 15th, Verona will host the inaugural women's match of the 2023 European Volleyball Championship in a unique setting in the world: the exclusive setting of the Arena.
The Amphitheatre will host an international competition almost 35 years after the last competitive event: the volleyball match of May 23rd, 1988 between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The women's European Championship will take place from 15th August to 3rd September and it will be a traveling championship, since it will touch numerous European cities in the organizing countries: Monza, Florence, Turin and Verona for Italy, Ghent and Brussels in Belgium, Düsseldorf in Germany and Tallinn in Estonia.
As usual, the organizing countries had the possibility to choose an opponent among those coming from the qualifying tournaments. The coach of the Italian women's national team Davide Mazzanti has chosen Romania. The city of Verona is not new to having hosted great stages in the world of volleyball, with the cup finals in 2010 for the men's sector and in 2014 for the women's sector, together with a round of the 2014 Women's Volleyball World Cup.
"It was a great team effort": the words of Mayor Damiano Tommasi fully express the great satisfaction given by the fact that Verona is once again hosting an international sporting competition, this time in the exclusive setting of the Arena.
