Italy triumphs: it's gold medal like in 2022! Julio Velasco's Azzurre beat Japan 3-1 in the final of Volleyball Nations League 2024, with a stupendous team performance, and enjoy the triumph. Paola Egonu sensational MVP with 27 points, but super game of the whole national team.

However, Egonu is only the spearhead - moreover, not the only one - of a lineup full of talent and in which the pair formed by Alice Degradi and Myriam Sylla especially stands out today. The former dominates for at least two and a half sets, finding great continuity both in reception and attack; the latter is as always the emotional dragger of this blue group, as well as a player capable of putting decisive balls on the ground throughout the match.

Italy triumphs in the VNL for the second time and also leads the FIVB ranking, the world ranking compiled by the International Volleyball Federation.

Italy - Japan 3-1 (25-17; 25-17; 21-25; 25-20)
Italy: Lubian, Degradi 12, Cambi, Spirito (L) n.e., De Gennaro (L), Orro 2, Bosetti 5, Danesi 6, Bonifacio n.e., Sylla 15, Egonu 27, Fahr 9, Antropova 3, Giovannini. All. Velasco.