World-renowned  head coach and former Team USA head will assist the Team Italy coaching staff as special advisor just in time for the 
which the defending Euro champion Italian softball squad will host in Friuli Venezia Giulia from June 27-July 3
“I am very excited to work with the Italian National Team in their preparation for the European Championships and ultimately their journey to Tokyo and participation in the Olympic Games
This is a great opportunity to give back to the game that has been so good to me over the past 40 years and also pay tribute to my Italian heritage and their former National Team coach
Looking forward to helping and advising the excellent coaching staff that they have in place anyway I can!” 
Mike Candrea will send Team Italy off to the  with hopes his winning ways will rub off in the international competition
In addition to coaching the eight-time national champion University of Arizona Wildcats
he also coached Team USA to an Olympic gold medal in Athens in 2004 and a silver medal in Beijing in 2008
Recognizing his invaluable contribution to 
Mike Candrea was presented with the United States Olympic Committee's prestigious award
As a way of honoring his ancestral heritage and Italian family roots
Mike Candrea has embraced the opportunity to work with Team Italy
He already has indirectly been on the job as one of his current Arizona Wildcat players
is a member of the Team Italy women’s softball squad
After coaching five years at Central Arizona College and winning two NJCAA national championship titles
Mike Candrea has enjoyed more than three and a half decades of unparalleled success at the helm of the University of Arizona softball program
He has been named National Coach of the Year four times and has received six Regional Coach of the Year honors
Mike Candrea owns a 1,664-429-2 (.795) coaching record to date at the University of Arizona
Having won close to 1,700 games and eight national championships as well as appeared in 23 Women's College World Series
University of Arizona head coach Mike Andrea brings a high standard of excellence to Team Italy
He was inducted into the National Softball Hall of Fame in 2017
the legendary coach was inducted into the NFCA Hall of Fame in 1996
the Central Arizona College Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame in 2019
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Sachi Amma sent Soul Mate and has claimed the steep new line is 5.15b
The hard line is at Gozen Rock in Japan and is now the most difficult sport route in the country
bolted his &#8220;ERProject&#8221; last December after sending Maturity 5.15a 
I kept coming at least one day to try and I Finally sent it on March 25,&#8221; said Amma
&#8220;I decided to grade it easy 9b [5.15b]
Because the crux part is really bouldery and reachy
But it can be V13/8b or V15/8c by physique and ability.&#8221;
Amma climbed Fight or Flight 5.15b in Spain and won the World Cup in 2014
Fight or flight at Siurana in Spain while throughout that year he sent 10 routes graded 9a or harder
In 2012 and 2013 he won the Lead Lead World Cup
His new 5.15b is the latest in the growing list of a grade that was once thought nearly impossible
Scroll through Amma&#8217;s photos of him on Soul Mate below
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Team Italy Baseball5 manager Maurizio Balla has one more opportunity to train and strategize with his 14 players in Pesaro on Sunday, October 20, 2024 prior to the start of the <a href="https://www.wbsceurope.org/en/events/youth-baseball5-european-championship-2024/schedule-and-results">Youth European Baseball5 Championship</a>
which will follow the new WBSC rules implemented to the international competition
"For the first time our team will have to deal with the new regulations
already adopted at the 2023 U18 World Championship
which requires three males to be fielded in the first set
We have been working on this innovation for some time
It would have been better to have the possibility of calling up ten athletes
to avoid having to lose a set due to the lack of players.”
who ventured down to the Dominican Republic after signing a contract with the Philadelphia Phillies
“I am very sorry that Filippo is no longer with us because someone with his skills cannot be replaced
he is used to playing at a high level whatever he does.”
In regards to his goals for Team Italy in the  <a href="https://www.wbsceurope.org/en/events/youth-baseball5-european-championship-2024/schedule-and-results">Youth European Baseball5 Championship</a>  
France and Spain will likely be better than us
Manager Maurizio Balla will be supported by coaches Simone Perazzini and Paolo Vannini
<a href="https://www.wbsceurope.org/en/events/youth-baseball5-european-championship-2024/schedule-and-results">YOUTH EUROPEAN BASEBALL5 CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE</a>