The great coach convinced the talent of Basketball Reggiana to marry the new project. Hello hello Italy after Sarr and Lonati
When the arrival of Rick Pitino at Palabigi in Reggio Emilia someone was announced on 1 April, given the day, he thought it was a joke. After a few hours, however, we realized how everything was real and how the visit of the legendary coach, already included in the Hall of Fame thanks to the two NCAA titles won with Kentucky (1996) and Louisville (2013) with a past on the benches of Knicks and Celtics, did not announce anything good for the Reggio basketball. The Holyness of College Basketball, now Factotum by St. John’s – the New York historian University who forged Superstar such as Chris Mullin, Ron Artest and Mark Jackson – had in fact arrived with a very precise focus: convincing Imeran Suljanovic, guard/tiring wing of 2 meters, born in 2006, playing for him in the next season. “I often watched him on video and I absolutely had to see him in person,” he explained. A “Commitment” (engagement) that has been officially successful for a few hours, sending the projects of the club of President Veronica Bartoli in smoke.
American dream
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In fact, Reggio Emilia wanted to launch another “stars” in the first team, following a philosophy that in the past has made it possible to baptize prospects such as Melli, Basile and Faye. “All Glory to God” (Gloria to God, editor’s note) was Suljanovic’s first social comment, which in the last Eurobasket under 18 recorded an average of 22.4 points and which in February, in the debut with its Austrian national team, scored 11 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists in the prequalification match for the Fiba 2027 World Cup against Albania. On the horizon there is therefore another escape of a boy of our youth sectors towards the American dream.
From Sarr to Lonati
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A profile that adds to that of Achille Lonati, a guard of Olimpia Milan who will play for St. Bonaventure next year. A list that is destined to stretch outdated, given that also the 2006 Dame Sarr guard, after breaking up with Barcelona, would be directed towards the universities of Kentucky or Illinois. An inevitable parable also for Luigi Suigo, born in 2 meters and 20 of Olimpia Milano, considered a sort of “unicorn” on a planetary level for its physical and technical characteristics. A process that now appears inevitable and irreversible, since the charm of stars and stripes adventure is added a cascade of money. The new Nil regulation (name, image and likeness) will in fact allow collegial athletes to receive compensation through indirect sponsorships. Italy and Europe is therefore also removed the last ace in the sleeve which consisted of being able to offer instant economic guarantees which, in many cases, could convince the brightest young people to stay here to earn immediately. For the youth sectors of the old continent, therefore very difficult years are promised if they will not find themselves adequate “countermeasures” and which are not imaginable at this moment.
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