De Cecco reveals an intimate secret from Tokyo Olympics: “I’ve suffered from depression”

Depression is a silent enemy of professional athletes, and this applies to volleyball players too.
Argentine star Luciano De Cecco explained it in his own example, saying something that will appall many.

In an interview for the magazine Acción, which was transferred by Tiempo Argentino, the captain of Argentina Volleyball National Team Luciano De Cecco warned about depression.
He revealed what he experienced during the Olympic Games in Tokyo last summer while the team he captained was heading for the bronze medal.

“I’ve suffered from depression, not many people know it. I faced tournaments like nothing and then I’d go home and lie down with the lights off watching movies all the time, doing nothing. I don’t know if it’s depression, but I do know a mood drop after when all situations overwhelm you because you demand the most of yourself to get where you want to go. It’s something that shouldn’t be missed because nobody knows the hell that each one lives, what one goes through off the court to reach that moment in which everyone looks at you on television and says: ‘Uh, look what Luciano did’. We all have problems that are hidden inside a player, inside the jersey. And you have to say it and try to let yourself be helped,” the experienced setter, current member of Italy’s Cucine Lube Civitanova, said.

Either way, professional esteems says that about 34% of athletes suffer from anxiety or depression.