Global volleyball stars launch multisport facility in Venice

Business partners Donald Suxho and Yury Shakirov are building a dedicated training facility with volleyball and pickleball courts that they believe will draw future pros and those looking for fun.

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 a.m. April 26, 2024
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Professional volleyball players Donald Suxho and Yury Shakirov are building the Global Sports Institute, a multisport facility in Venice.
Professional volleyball players Donald Suxho and Yury Shakirov are building the Global Sports Institute, a multisport facility in Venice.
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It’s safe to assume that when Donald Suxho first started playing volleyball as a kid he could never have imagined ending up in Venice, a small south Sarasota County city. This was in the late 1970s, in Albania, the small nation on the Baltic Peninsula.

Neither could Yury Shakirov who, though a few years younger, was also taking up volleyball but in Russia.

 

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