Predestined is the term that has been used most in recent days to tell the story of Matilde Villa, the 19 year old who was chosen by the WNBA, the women’s NBAthe US basketball championship, one of the highest points for an athlete in this sport.
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The first overall pick in the system that selects players and sorts them into teams was a phenomenon, Caitlin Clark, who has accumulated more college championship points than any male champion. She ended up at Indiana Fever. The point guard from Venezia was selected with the 32nd pick by the Atlanta Dream in the draft held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City.
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For Italy the phenomenon is Matilde Villa, born in 2004, from Lissone, in Brianza. He’s not twenty years old, but he’s been playing in Serie A-1 since he was 14. His debut took place with the Costa Masnaga shirt. La Gazzetta dello Sport recalls that at 15 years old, in November 2020 he scored 36 points with 8 rebounds and 4 assists in a match against Dinamo Sassari. She has been playing in the senior national team since 2021 and in 2022 she moved to Reyer Venezia, currently leading the regular season of the championship. All this without being 1.90 meters tall, but 1.72 meters tall.