Amanda Sylves The first new face at the heart of the 23/24 squad: the French centre-back, born in 2000, is back from two seasons at Florence, where he was coached by Massimo Bellano until last December. Sylves will join the group at the end of his international stint with the France national team, with whom he will seek an encore in the Golden League, where he will make his debut in Metz against Hungary tomorrow (Sunday 4 June) before playing Challenger Cup and European Championships.
PHYSICALITY AND GROWTH MARGIN Amandha Sylves, 194 centimeters tall, was born in the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, an overseas region of the French Republic, where she approaches volleyball. He moved to France at fourteen and ended up first with Pôle Espoir in Boulouris, then with IFVB, the French equivalent of Club Italia, with whom he made his Ligue A debut. At sixteen he received his first appearances for the senior national team, with which he will take part in the 2019 European Championship. In the summer of 2019 followed the move to Nantes, where he stayed for two seasons and also made his debut in the Champions League, then the move to Florence: in the 21. He finished the 2022/22 season with 180 points, while in the 22 /23 the score is 169, with 47 blocks and 8 aces.
Last summer, she was crucial to France’s success in the Golden League with former red-and-white Lucille Gicquel, with whom she will now face an intense period of preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympics before wearing the Cuneo shirt, where she will… Graduated is his technical and tactical growth path under the direction of Massimo Bellano. Off the field, Amandha Sylves is studying International Trade.
Amanda SylvesCentral Cuneo Granda Volley:“I am really looking forward to this new adventure. I immediately felt the club’s right confidence and that was what I was looking for in the five circles in the season leading up to the home game. The opportunity to work with coach Bellano again was undoubtedly a determining factor in my choice, as were Lucille Gicquel’s words about the club, the fans and the city. We will be a young team with many elements combining the desire for revenge and the desire to resume their respective growth paths after a difficult year; Exercising in the gym is the key to great happiness. After a long summer in the national team, I will come to Cuneo with the aim of immediately finding an understanding with my new team-mates and especially with the players“.
(Source: press release Wedge Granda Volleyball)
