Two years abroad transformed the blue winger, leading her to a contract with the Utah Jazz: “The turning point in Berlin and with Sacchetti. It’s nice to win back what I had given up for lost”
Ever since he was a child, Simone spent his afternoons playing on the pitch behind his house and that of his grandfather in Francavilla al Mare, in Abruzzo. Nonno Vittorio Pomilio was a basketball blue and gave up the 1960 Olympics in Rome because he worked as an engineer; mother Malì played 120 matches in the national team and won two league titles with Vicenza; his brother Luca, 4 years older, played professionally and is now in B.
