The 20-year-old will bring his twin brother on board
Italy’s new-look men’s curling team will look familiar to followers of the recent world men’s curling championship in Ogden, Utah.
Stefano Spiller has confirmed his amalgamation with former Joel Retornaz competitors Amos Mosaner and Sebastiano Arman, on a new squad that includes the skip’s brother, Cesare Spiller.
Alberto Pimpini, who threw front end stones and was in the house for Spiller’s skip stones in Ogden, is not in the picture.
Pimpini also served as Retornaz’s alternate at the Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
The middle two are actually much tallerThe Spiller-Mosaner-Arman combo had a rocky start to the world championship but qualified for the playoffs, losing in strategically controversial fashion to Canada in the qualifying round.
The announcement actually came in backwards fashion. After a leak to an Italian newspaper which trumpeted the new squad, Spiller’s former junior team – world champions in 2024 who also won silver last year – belatedly announced they were splitting up.
That team’s social media account has now changed its name to “old_team_spiller.”
“We’ll keep this (account) for when we come back together in the future,” reads the page bio.
The 20-year-old Spiller, who will study computer engineering at university in Turin in the fall, might be an eventual threat in mixed doubles, too. He teamed with Lucrezia Grande to win the inaugural world MD junior title hosted in Edmonton last May.
Mosaner and fellow two-time Olympic medallist Stefania Constantini will defend their world MD crown starting Apr. 25 in Geneva, Switzerland.