Petrucci: “We want to copy the Coverciano model of the FIGC”. Gravina: “Available”

It is a longtime friendship, that between Gianni Petrucci and Gabriele Gravina, the numbers one of the basketball and football federations. Continuous phone calls, exchange of opinions, advice, strategies to be implemented even if the two worlds are objectively different. But, as Petrucci always said, “it is never a crime to copy the things that work”. Hence the invitation, at the end of last December, to intervene to a Federal Council to explain one of the flagships of the FIGC. “We do not have a technical sector and we would like to copy in part what is Coverciano for football, however adapting it to the world of basketball -Petrucci’s words today at the opening of works at the CONI Hall of Honor -. I invited Gravina here so that it can explain the technical sector of the Football Federation and what we can imitate. I thank him for accepting the invitation. In recent years Gravina has also made another miracle, has completed a reform that seemed impossible to a law that had come out. It was good and we should also partially copy that reform because we are also a professional sport. When I entered Coni, two things were and are famous, Coverciano and the Sports Medicine Studies “.

opportunity

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Gravina then took the floor explaining her experience. “For us it is an opportunity for football and basketball to open up to a contamination – added Gravina -. The technical sector is of the FIGC and is positioned inside Coverciano, both are two excellence. It is known for the highly specialized training of coaches, observers, match analyst and other figures, to the point of having become the home of football formation. We have different conventions, there is osmosis between the world of football and the academic one and we also do it with the corporate world, through the application of football training methodologies and companies and vice versa. In addition to developing and practicing the high technical training of the methodologies, our sector dedicates itself to the trainers of the boys, of the youth sectors, with the latter who will receive a quality certification “. Gravina then told how in recent years there has been” A strong demand for the training of managers. Fundamental, for this reason we are available for the common good of Italian sport. “What we want is the merger of three areas that are the technical sector, the youth sector and the Club Italia, putting a unique technical director, someone who is a technical commissioner with a great experience. If these three entities do not dialogue we cannot form the young people as we would like – he added – we have worked seven to eight months and now we are ready so that this historical revolution can also start in these three areas “. But where could the basketball coverciano be created? The offices will be to the acetous water, while in the future the seats we say techniques could be Varese or Pesaro. The Council was present, remotely, also Ettore Messina, Olimpia Milano technician and president of the Italian Coach Committee, who asked Gravina how football will keep the various technical components united and structured.

Referees and basketball

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At the end of the Federal Council, Petrucci then focused on the recent controversies that hit the referees of the highest basketball championships. “Unfortunately there is a wrong mentality: it is thought that it is lost for the referees and that you win for your own merit. It is not so. It is a culture to change, we will always be alongside the referees, their team is the Federation “.