Meant to be. At 19, he is the future of Italian volleyball. After a dazzling season and a European bronze, where he was also awarded best setter of the tournament, the champion of the future will attempt to establish himself once and for all in Rio. And to think that he only stumbled upon volleyball somewhat by chance (due to his sister, who plays, and his height), after his father, a tennis coach, had started him off with Roger Federer's sport: the Italian athlete's idol (his other passion is fantasy novels). The athlete from Bolzano, after obtaining the scientific high school diploma then enrolled at the Faculty of Food Science. But an Olympic medal is not going to quench his thirst for success.