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Nicolai Bonello ingħata l-unur tal-Atlas Atleta Żagħżugħ tax-Xahar għal Frar, wara li kiseb record nazzjonali ġdid fil-pole vault b’qabża notevoli ta’ 4.35m. Nicolai Bonello li għad għandu 16-il sena, jattendi s-Sixth Form tal-Kulleġġ De La Salle u jikkompeti mal-klabb li jirrapreżenta l-istess skola, ma’ La Salle Athletic Club. Huwa attiv ħafna sa minn età żgħira, billi pprattika diversi dixxiplini sportivi, sakemm għażel il-ġinnastika bħala l-attività prinċipali tiegħu. Huwa rebaħ ukoll il-Kampjonati Nazzjonali f’diversi oqsma. Fi tmiem is-sena 2020, irrtorna fl-atletika u ipprova jikkombina il-kapaċitajiet tiegħu fil-ġinnastika, li baqa’ jipprattika flimkien mal-atletika. B’hekk l-għażla naturali tiegħu kienet li jagħżel il-Pole Vault, fejn fi ftit ġimgħat bl-għajuna tal-kowċ Bulgaru u eks Pole Vaulter Mr Jivko Jetev, kiseb record nazzjonali ta’ taħt is-16-il sena fl-ewwel kompetizzjoni tiegħu. Fl-2022, tefa’ ħarstu fuq ir-rekord ta’ taħt l-20 sena, dak ta’ 3.90m, li rnexxielu jilħaq fl-ewwel kompetizzjoni tal-istaġun f’Jannar. Fi Frar, fil-Kampjonati tax-Xitwa organizzati minn Athletics [...]

Nicolai Bonello has been awarded the Atlas Youth Athlete of the Month Award for the month of February, for setting a new national pole vault record with a remarkable jump of 4.35m. Nicolai Bonello still aged 16, attends Sixth Form at De La Salle College and competes for the School’s Club colours with La Salle Athletic Club. He has been very active from a young age practicing a variety of sports until he took up gymnastics as his main sport, also winning the National Championships in different apparatus. At the end of 2020 he returned to athletics trying to combine his gymnastics background, which he continues to practice and compete in, with his athletic abilities. His natural event in Athletics was Pole Vault, where in a few weeks, with the help of his Bulgarian ex-Pole Vaulter coach Mr Jivko Jetev, he set the U16 National Record in his very first [...]

Illum 14 ta’ Marzu 2022 Diversi ġurnalisti sportivi li jsegwu l-kampjonat BOV Premier u t-timijiet Nazzjonali Maltin kellhom laqgħa informali mal-kowċ Nazzjonali Devis Mangia fejn fiha ingħatat informazzjoni utli ta’ dak li qed iseħħ fiċ-ċentru tekniku tal-MFA. L-Għaqda Ġurnalisti Sports (GħĠS) aċċettat l-istedina tad-dipartiment tal-Kummunikazzjoni tal-MFA u ħadet sehem f'din il-laqgħa li fiha ġiet ippreżentata l-ħidma u l-viżjoni ta’ Devis Mangia bħala kowċ tat-tim Nazzjonali u bħala Direttur tekniku tat-tims Nazzjonali kollha min dak ta’ taħt il-15 -il sena ‘l fuq. Fil-laqgħa Mangia spjega kif il-livell ta’ preparazzjoni tat-timijiet nazzjonali kollha qed isir fuq livell professjonali mhux biss mil-lat tekniku iżda anke mil-lat xjentifiku fejn bi pjattaforma ġdida li investit fiha l-MFA sabiex il-kowċis kollha għandhom l-aħħar data u kull dettall ieħor li jirrigwardja l-plejers. Il-laqgħa kellha diversi interventi mill-ġurnalisti li taw l-opinjoni tagħhom dwar is-sitwazzjoni tal-futbol f’Malta. Għal din il-laqgħa flimkien mal-President Sandro Micallef, is-Segretarju Ġenerali Lorraine Cunningham u [...]

14th March 2022 Various sports journalists who follow the BOV Premier League and the Maltese National Teams had an informal meeting with National Head Coach Devis Mangia, in which he gave an update of the ongoing work within the Malta FA's technical centre. The Malta Sports Journalists Association (MSJA) accepted the invitation from the Malta FA Communications Office and participated in this session where Devis Mangia in his capacity of National Coach and Head of the Technical Centre, presented his vision and planned projects. Coach Mangia is responsible of all the MFA national teams from the U15 category all the way up to the men's senior team. Mangia explained the professional technical and scientific level of preparation carried out by all the national teams. This, he explained is being done by using a new platform in which the MFA has invested in where all the coaches have the necessary updated [...]