Italy's experience at the fourth Padbol World Cup , which was held in Santos, Brazil from 8 to 12 November, reaches the quarter-finals. Also included in the South American expedition to the World Cup was a Sardinian: Filippo Lai , national vice champion and MVP of the Italian championship, as technical commissioner and player together with the Roman couple Simone Angilletta and Alessandro Vender, reigning Italian champions.
The Azzurri finished in the top eight, losing in the quarter-finals to Romania who then won the title, with Uruguay second and Portugal third. In the group Angilletta-Lai-Vender's Italy beat Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Austria (where György Garics, former defender of Atalanta, Bologna and Napoli, played). In September, the three athletes placed third at the Nations Cup in Hungary.
Discipline. Padbol, a mix between football and padel (but also volleyball) which is having an increasingly growing interest, in Cagliari has Padbol Ferrini Cagliari which is one of the main clubs at Italian level and for the promotion of this sport, where it will be held the third edition of the international tournament will be held from 11 to 14 July 2024. And the president of the nascent Feipad (Italian Padbol Federation) arrives from the Sardinian capital, namely Fabio Argiolas who is also a striker for Selargius in Promozione.
