After the 2022 national team, fans were stirred by the news that Paola Egonu announced that he did not play for the Italian volleyball team because he was too tired of racism. Although after that, everything calmed down, but Egonu's future was still open.
MVP of the European National Championship and FIVB Volleyball Nations League last season, Paola Egonu has brought a lot of scars throughout his life due to his skin color.
In a recent interview on Vanity Fair, she frankly talked about racism that she had to suffer from childhood until now, even if she was a star of the world sports village.
In the interview, Egonu laments: “When I was four, I realized myself. While studying kindergarten with a friend, we were weeding in the garden and laughing because of this job, the teacher punished us.
Three times I asked for permission to go to the toilet, three times the teacher said no. Finally, in the evening, I was not allowed to leave but was not allowed but it was too late when I went to the toilet. The teacher laughed at his face and called me “crazy things”, full of smell.
During the following days, she did not change the way to treat me. I have to wait in an unclean state until my mother came to pick up in the afternoon. Even until now, 20 years later I still struggle with the use of other toilets. “
Egonu said she grew up in an environment where the standard of beauty was white. She was always the tallest, black with the curls she hated. Sometimes she used to shave her head but she was teased without her hair, everything was horrible.
The Italian passing superstar said she felt tired when faced with ridicule even when winning or losing, not having time to enjoy even when winning.
The world volleyball star asks why she must represent people who are always racist with her?