A water polo ball (stock photo)
ROME – 62-year-old Nando Pesci died, a water polo coach and selector of the under-17 national team about to participate in the European Championships in Tbilisi. The technician suffered a heart attack in the night. To express their condolences also the Latin water polo that Pesci had trained in the past few years. Society "clings to the pain of the family due to the sudden disappearance".
To his credit, Pesci had a series of titles won as a player and coach, he had played in Lazio, Pescara, Roma and Anzio, in the national team he had been assistant to Ratko Rudic, coach of the Settebello, until the 2000 Sydney Olympics , also winning the bronze medal for the Europeans of Florence. In the Federation he had maintained a series of assignments, while in the clubs he had finally led the Tgroup Arechi Salerno in A2.
“The condolences of Federnuoto president Paolo Barelli, honorary presidents Salvatore Montella and Lorenzo Ravina, vice presidents Andrea Pieri, Francesco Postiglione and Teresa Frassinetti, general secretary Antonello Panza, the council and the federal offices of the GUG Roberto Petronilli, of the city of Settebello Alessandro Campagna, of the national water polo teams of all ages and of the technical staff and of the entire Italian aquatic movement ", the FIN, the Italian swimming federation, wrote in a statement. (source IL MESSAGGERO – FIN)
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