World Cup winner Erzsébet Valkay to enforce "setterosa"

Hungary's 2004 Olympian Erzsébet Valkay will enforce Olympic champion Italy in the future and could be a decisive enforcement for the "setterosa" on the way to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. 26-year-old Valkay won gold medals at the 2001 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary and the 2002 FINA World Cup in Perth, Australia, but played luckless at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, when Hungary only finished sixth and was not involved in Hungary's gold medal at last year's World Championships in Montreal, Canada any more. Her first appearance for Team Italy will now be the annual All Star Game of the Italian League to be held 11 February in Palermo, where the current Italian team is facing a selection of the best foreign players. She would not be the first foreign athlete in the "setterosa", as two of Italy's 2004 Olympic gold medallists, Alexandra Araujo (Brazil) and Noemi Toth (Hungary), are naturalised players. Italian A1 Women's League 2005-2006 Nominated players 2006 All Star Game in Palermo Team Italy Silvia Bosurgi, Chiara Brancati, Tania Di Mario, Martina Miceli, Maddalena Musumeci, Francesca Pavan, Daria Starace ("Geymonat" Orizzonte Catania), Arianna Garibotti, Cinzia Ragusa (Rapallo Nuoto), Filomena Dursi (Gifa Città di Palermo), Eleonora Gay (IGM Ortigia), Allegra Lapi ("Mc Donald's" Firenze Pallanuto), Federica Rocco (Plebiscito Padova), Federica Radicchi (Sporting Bracciano), Manuela Zanchi (Varese Olona), Erzsébet Valkay (Volturno SC). Foreign All Stars Andrea Henriques (Brazil), Galina Rytova (Kazakhstan), Ekaterina Vasileva (Russia) - Gifa Città di Palermo Blanca Gil (Spain), Brenda Villa (USA) - "Geymonat" Orizzonte Catania Kristina Alogbo (Canada), Johanne Bègin (Canada), Erika Lorenz (USA) - CC "IGM" Ortigia Carina Harache (New Zealand), Barbora Slajsova (Czech Republic) - Mediterraneo Catania Irina Tolkunova (Kazakhstan), Anastasia Zubkova (Kazakhstan) - Athlon 90 Palermo Flavia Fernandes (Brazil), Tatyana Gubina (Kazakhstan) - Swimming Palermo Erzsébet Valkay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, when Hungary finished sixth.