This season the federated teams could only compete for three weekends, and Associació Esportiva Carles Vallbona (Spain) thought of organizing an activity provided by the WOMAN project, which would motivate our players not to lose the desire to continue training and that they could share with professional players their sporting experiences.
On Sunday, February 14th, the children, cadets and youth players met with the two invited players through a video conference. For the children’s category we invited Aina Berbel, a player from Sant Cugat, and for the cadet and youth team she was Maria Segura, the current player of the Spanish national team and Stuttgart (Germany).
They told us curiosities about how they had lived the confinement, if they had trained at home in order to keep fit, if they had passed the COVID, how they are living the fact of traveling to make matches, how many PCRs had to be done, etc. In addition, they told us about their beginnings in volleyball and their careers.
DONA is based on the ERASMUS+ Collaborative Partnership program of EU. It is coordinated by the Associació Esportiva Carles Vallbona (Spain) and involves the Malta Volleyball Association (Malta), the Scuola di Pallavolo Anderlini Soc. Coop. Sociale SD (Italy), Istres Provence Volleyball (France), the De SportMaatschappij Foundation (Netherlands), the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and the European Athlete as Student (EAS) Dual Career Network (Malta).