A bronze for Na Ka Ryu at the San Marino Open
The seven Casalesi of Na Ka Ryu return from the San Marino karate Open, which took place last weekend, with only one bronze but aware that with one more effort it is possible to climb those steps to rise to the occasion.
Mattia Cornaglia (combat) immediately faces an army athlete at the first meeting and admits to having made a tactical mistake, fails to finish recoveries and is seventh.
Mattia Burzotta (combat), who started with a stretch in his thigh, tries hard, passes the first matches, loses and is recovered, unfortunately he loses the final for the bronze, same fate for Matteo Leotardi, Gaia Quaranta and Aurora Bargero (forms): Gaia and Aurora meet two athletes reaching gold flames but fail to reach the final for the bronze, Matteo in a very hard pool does not pass the round.
Beautiful race by Luca Cunico (forms), who passes the very hard first round and reaches the final for the bronze, for a few cents he does not get on the third step.
Concludes the list of Casalesi athletes competing in Matteo Skilja (combat). Matteo, weight category -84kg. He starts hard right away and at the first meeting he finds himself in front of the athlete of the State Police, trained by the technician of the Italian national team.
Matteo is not intimidated and keeps the match on his side, in the end he wins 5 to 2. Matteo loses the next match against a strong but tough athlete and ends up with a cut to the tongue for a blow received, recovered continues and arrives in final for the bronze and this time he does not miss it so he goes up to take the only medal of the Casalese expedition at the San Marino Open.
Only one medal but a wonderful experience, as the maestro Pier Paolo Cornaglia comments: “In these Open there are important points at stake for the rankig and it is always difficult to bring home medals and points, so there are very strong athletes, under the Army. , Fiamme Gialle, Fiamme Oro … My athletes are aware of this and this gives me enormous satisfaction ”.
Next week ready again for the Adidas Open of Italy in Riccione.