About
Gold Sport srl is one of the most important sports management agencies for female athletes and coaches at national and international levels. It is specialized in managing the career of many volleyball stars.
Gold Sport aims to embody a new approach to sports management, offering whole support to its athletes and coaches. This new method aspires to maximize athletes’ potential, planning their future.
A new model, a new level and a new era.
Gold Sport personifies and looks after every aspect of its players’ lives, both on and off the field. It puts the focus on the present, never forgetting the future and the athletes’ ambition. The type of service offered by Gold Sport is a perfect match between the traditional negotiation and contract research phases and the consideration of stressful and limited players’ life conditions. Therefore, it has introduced new services to offer female athletes the possibility of expressing their talent to their fullest potential, providing them with the necessary support and enhancing their capacities.
TEAM
DONATO SALTINI
FOUNDER
In over thirty years of activity, Donato has managed and continues to represent the women’s volleyball élite. Thanks to his effort, Gold Sport is nowadays the leading agency in the sector. Thanks to deep relationships established over the years with the most important clubs in the world, his competence and reliability, he has had the opportunity to work alongside the most important female volleyball stars and to create brilliant careers together.
CRISTIAN SAVANI
CEO/AGENT
Cristian Savani has twenty years of career as a professional volleyball player. He has been the captain of the national team, he kept an Olympic bronze medal in London in 2012 and he boasts five years of international experience in China, Turkey, Lebanon, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Despite his ended sports career, he pursued his dream of taking care of players, putting all the experience he gained on and off the field at his disposal.
He took up an educational and professional path in Sports Marketing and Business Development. After three years of experience as an Agent and Marketing & Sponsorship Manager in male volleyball, he joined Gold Sport in 2023 intending to offer our female players an innovative, holistic and customized care and protection service.
ANNAMARIA BIGOI
AGENT
Annamaria Bigoi has worked for Gold Sport for 25 years, she got an honours degree in Communication Sciences. She boasts a past as a first player and then as manager of the press office, after which, she decided to use her experience to become an agent, revolutionizing and innovating the role of Talent Scout.
Her profound technical expertise and evaluation skills have allowed her to gain important recognition in the recruitment of young athletes who have now become Top Players.
Her excellent recruiting and management skills give her an enormous advantage in planning the best training path to reach each athlete’s maximum potential.
FRANCESCA LIVI
LAWYER
She has been working with prestigious management agencies for over twenty years, dealing with the legal sports aspects of volleyball, thus combining her great passion for volleyball with her legal studies. She joined the Gold Sport family in 2010, immediately making herself a key figure and an added value for the company, as she ensures the protection of the client in contractual matters. Her profession is also her greatest passion.
STEFANO BARBIERI
AGENT
Stefano Barbieri graduated with distinction in Sports Science, and after a past as an athletic trainer for the most prestigious men’s clubs, in 2015, he joined Gold Sport as an agent.
The scouting, technical and physical analysis skills of female athletes, combined with great expertise and devotion, are his strengths, making him unique in recruiting young talents in the national and international arena.
These skills allow him to define the best path for our athletes to reach their full potential.
ALBERTINA PIFFERI
SECRETARY
Albertina Pifferi, in the Gold Sport family since 2004, takes care of all aspects of the agency’s secretariat and administration.
She has been welcoming our customers with courtesy and professionalism for over twenty years.
Service
PLAYERS AND COACHES
National and international market research.
Contractual protection and legal assistance.
TEAM
Consulting and collaboration to help teams build a competitive team.
MARKETING AND SPONSORS
Promotion and care of the athletes’ image.
Sponsorship research and consultancy.
Support in the contractual phase.
Market strategy.
PR.
CONSULTING
Chartered accountant expert in national and international taxation.
Francesca Livi
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Da oltre vent’anni collabora con prestigiose agenzie di management occupandosi degli aspetti giuridico - sportivi in ambito pallavolistico. Riesce, in tal modo, ad unire la grande passione per la pallavolo, coltivata sin dalla giovane età, agli studi giurisprudenziali intrapresi. Tali esperienze le hanno permesso di accrescere la propria preparazione e di formarsi professionalmente. Si unisce alla famiglia Gold Sport nel 2010; la sua figura è fondamentale per l’agenzia ed è un valore aggiunto in quanto garantisce competenza nella tutela del cliente in ambito contrattuale. E’ indubbio che la sua professione è anche la sua più grande passione.
Cristian Savani
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Ex capitano della Nazionale Italiana, giocatore di pallavolo professionista per 20 anni, con esperienze italiane e internazionali. Dopo 3 anni nel mercato maschile decide nel 2023 di entrare a far parte del team Gold Sport, ed è pronto a mettere a disposizione la sua esperienza di giocatore e capitano per seguire ed assistere le nostre atlete.
PARTNERSHIPS
Discover the exclusive collaborations for our athletes
MENTAL COACH
My name is Federica Tisato, I have been working as a Mental Coach with Pro Athletes and Elite Clubs, Coaches and Managers for 15 years and I am part of the team “Psicologi dello Sport Italia”. I graduated in Psychological Sciences and Pedagogy from the University of Padua, and then I obtained my Master’s degree in Mental Coaching and Human Performance at the C.I.S.P.A.T. – Centro di Psicologia Breve Applicata in Padua. Thereafter, I followed a training course at CONI in Applied Neuroscience for Sport, specialising in the use of Autogenic Training Techniques for Athletes.
I use a method that involves the use of training focusing on analysing the athlete’s strengthening needs, to achieve the optimal performance plan.
YOUR CAREER BEYOND SPORT
I am Sara Spadoni and, in my life, I deal with orientation, career guidance, development, training and sport management.
In the past, I was a synchronised swimming athlete until I chose to dedicate myself to my studies, obtaining a degree in Business Administration at Bocconi University and a Master’s in International Management at Imperial College London. In 2012 I obtained an Executive Diploma in Sport Management at SDA Bocconi. This is where my journey between sport, education and people began: I have worked in Switzerland, France, the USA, Qatar and England, holding roles as project manager, career advisor and L&D manager for UEFA, Aspire, RCS Sport and SDA Bocconi.
In 2020 – with other experts in sport, business, finance and HR – I found Opera: a network where we provide athletes with our expertise, helping them to understand which path and professional projects to take up post-career.
WHERE WE WORK
CONTACT
Dott. Donato Saltini
d.saltini@goldsport-italy.com
tel. +39 348 4110378
Cristian Savani
c.savani@goldsport-italy.com
tel. +39 338 9207151
Dott.ssa Annamaria Bigoi
a.bigoi@goldsport-italy.com
tel. +39 336 669212
Avv. Francesca Livi
f.livi@goldsport-italy.com
tel. +39 338 3014510
Dott. Stefano Barbieri
s.barbieri@goldsport-italy.com
tel. +39 333 2158071
References
goldsport@goldsport-italy.com
tel. +39 (0)59 220202
fax. +39 (0)59 220927
INFO CONTACT
Gold Sport Italy Srl
Viale G. Verdi, 26, 41121 Modena MO
Telephone: +39 059 220202
Email: info@goldsportitaly.it