Paola Egonu

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Paola Egonu
Paola Egonu.jpg
2018, Nations League in Eboli
portrait
Date of birth December 18, 1998
place of birth Cittadella , Italy
size 1.93 m
position Diagonal / outside attack
societies
2013–2017
2017–2019
since 2019 		Club Italia
AGIL Volley Novara
Imoco Volley Conegliano
National team
2014–2016
since 2015 		Junior national team
A national team
successes
2015
2016
2017
2018
2018
2019
2019
2019
2019
2020 		U18 world champion
Olympic ninth
Second World Grand Prix
Italian cup winner
Vice world champion
Italian cup
winner Winner of the Champions League
European championship third
club world champion
Italian cup winner

As of April 29, 2020

Paola Ogechi Egonu (born December 18, 1998 in Cittadella ) is an Italian volleyball player .

Career

Egonu played from 2014 to 2016 in the Italian national junior team, with which she won the U18 World Cup in Peru in 2015 . The diagonal player has been part of the senior national team since 2015 , with which she finished ninth at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In 2017 she was runner-up at the World Grand Prix and vice-champion in Japan in 2018 . At the 2019 European Championships in Turkey , she finished third.

At club level, Egonu played for Club Italia in Rome from 2013 to 2017 . With AGIL Volley Novara she won the Italian Cup in 2018 and 2019 and the European Champions League in 2019 . With Imoco Volley Conegliano she became club world champion in 2019 and won the national cup again in 2020.

Egonu has won several awards as “Most Valuable Player” (MVP), “Best Outside Attacker” and “Best Diagonal Attacker”.

Private

Egonu is the daughter of two Nigerian emigrants.

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personal data
SURNAME Egonu, Paola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egonu, Paola Ogechi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Cittadella , Italy