All-Star Camilleri to play in Haiti charity match
Steve Camilleri, currently playing for Rari Nantes Bogliasco in the Italian Serie A, was recently selected to play in a charity match for the All-Stars selection against the Italian national team. The match, in Sori, Liguria, will be played on Tuesday...
Steve Camilleri, currently playing for Rari Nantes Bogliasco in the Italian Serie A, was recently selected to play in a charity match for the All-Stars selection against the Italian national team.
The match, in Sori, Liguria, will be played on Tuesday and transmitted live on Rai Sport Piu.
Camilleri, of Neptunes, was called to form part of the squad of 16 overseas players who are plying their trade in the top Italian league this season.
Italy coach Alessandro Campagna has picked 19 players for a three-day training camp between Monday and Wednesday. The exhibition match, under the tutelage of UNICEF and Genova Il Secolo XIX newspaper, will be part of the national team's training schedule.
The All Stars team will be led by Riccardo Tempestini and Marco Risso.
The selection was a great satisfaction for Camilleri as, besides being top scorer for Bogliasco, the Malta international also lies third in the overall list of Serie A leading goal-getters with 31 goals.
Pro Recco's Serbian Vanja Udovicic is top with 36 goals and Roma's Goran Krstonosic, of Macedonia, is second on 35.
The All Stars squad is made up of: Merrill Marc Moses (US), Tibor Benedek (Hungary), Guillermo Rios Molina (Spain), Vanja Udovicic (Serbia), Damir Buric (Croatia), Tamas Kasas (Hungary), Norbert Madaras (Hungary), Filip Filipovic (Serbia), Slobodan Nikic (Serbia), Daniel Premus (Croatia), Mladjan Janovic (Montenegro), Peter Varellas (US), Rajmund Fodor (Hungary), Steve Camilleri (Malta), Heiko Nossek (Germany) and Jeffrey Brian Powers (US).