The flag of Cantù and icon of the national team: “I also had luck: I was slender, athletic, but in the end I made others run. Riva for me like a younger brother, like Meneghin nobody”
At his appearance he was too strong, out of scale. At the end of the 1960s, that boy with a supersonic speed and lightning revenues seemed like a sort of miracle. Never seen something like that in Italy. And in fact they called him “American”. From that extraordinary earliness, a monumental career started. And always in his small, great and magical Cantù. Pierluigi Marzorati is one of the two “M” on which the great leap forward of our basketball has built. The other is Dino Meneghin: “Dino was immense, a warrior. The number 1. And altruism stands out in his career”. This quality is also the figure of Marzorati, which has always returned to its community time and feelings. Volcanic, graduate in engineering while playing, the second career amuses it as much as the first. To pierlo, or the flying engineer, you choose, it was all teamwork: “Sport teaches that it is not always everything like in Mulino Bianco”. It is sacrifice.