The five boys of Gianni Maddaloni, said ‘or Maè, participated in the success of the International Judo Open 2025
Fifteen clubs of six nations participated in the Pembroke Malta International Judo Open 2025 on Saturday and Sunday. This is not one of those tournaments that attribute score for the Olympic qualification, but for all 134 athletes who competed – divided into the various age classes – it was equally an opportunity to cultivate their dreams. Especially for those five boys from Scampia who were accompanied to Malta and guided competing by Gianni Maddaloni, or Maè.
Maddaloni’s words
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“They come to the gym at the age of five and among these there are those who become a champion and enter the military sports groups, there are those who continue school and those who graduate eo graduates. Then there are also those who become a judo teacher and those who form physically and educate themselves as only sport can do. Sport is that invisible thread that connects all these choices and with them find the right path of legality. Thanks to sport, a tool of legality and love,” Pygular the results obtained by its five boys, all of the Cadet class (under 18). “We took four gold and a silver medals,” he added with his particular tone of kind pride. Giuseppe Fonto ranked first in the 50 kg, Enrico Petrosino Primo in the 55 kg, Gaetano Nocera first in the 60 kg, Aniello Palumbo Primo in the 66 kg, Lorenzo Evangelista according to 55 kg. “Scampia is the outskirts that wins – Maddaloni said again – the Scampia clan, where the term clan is by group that identifies itself in the good, legality, education. We put sport in schools, sport educates children. Together with you we can do it, because sport in schools will make violence disappear in the streets and make mace’s marroc crime”.