Daniele Bagozza, from night porter to snowboard champion: "I would have stopped if ..."

The '' South Tyrolean class is one of the references of Cesare Pisoni's national team. At sportnews.bz, he told how joining a sports group saved his career.

Wednesday 15 July 2020 3 minutes reading time

From night porter to snowboard champion, one of the strongest national team in the world for a couple of years now, that of blue snowboard. Daniele Bagozza's story is particular and the 25-year-old from Ortisei wanted to tell his colleagues at SportNews, after a season that saw him obtain his second success in the World Cup, in the parallel slalom of Bad Gastein, in addition to the 4th place in the final specialty ranking and 9th in the general, or the fourth Italian in the cup dominated by Roland Fischnaller. "I always said that if I had not joined a sports group at 25, I would have had to look for something else in my life", the story of Bagozza referring to the difficulties encountered in self-financing the career in the snow world. Until the 2018/19 season, where he obtained his first success in the CdM (but had already won the European Cup), the blue was not part of any sports group and worked as a keeper and night porter to make ends meet. Then came the opportunity to join the Police from 2019: "Now my goal is to race freely, without pressure because it is the only way I know to make the most of my potential - he explains - The dream in the next season is to participate in the World Championships in Zhangjiakou, on the Olympic slopes where my first cup victory came. We have a very strong team and it will be complicated, but Roland Fischnaller teaches that I will still have time to improve and conquer certain goals ".

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