Mum threw the dough to the famous Chicago White Socks reporter Bob Elson, who said “I put coffee on the stove” when the game didn’t promise well or it would end there shortly. Dan Peterson celebrates his 90 years with a Docufilm “Forever number one” wanted strongly by his managers, Arianna and Silvano Burloni, united in Sun Production, at his side always and by Fenice Film, for the direction of Luca Carcano.
“Coach” has changed the world of basketball and sports communication: to remember its impact on minds and souls, the great motivation that was able to infuse, giants like Dino Meneghin, Danilo Gallinari and Renzo Bariviera. “When I met him, I was 30 years old, age that for a basketball player is a threshold. He said to me
Say you have to think about the L.A. Olympics. He was able to give me the confidence that every player needs when he enters the field. Having someone who believes in you is the most important thing
It’s not just about patterns. Peterson, as an eclectic one, has given great weight to the team building, to formations like the 1-3-1, adopted with Olimpia Milano, to the game in L. “At the beginning of the 70s coach followed the Virtus and for us young coaches his exercises were a pathotic – affirmed Ettore Messina, technical director of the Olimpia Milano personal consultant of President Leo Dell’Orco. Dan won on all floors and that of communication is certainly not secondary.
The docufilm enters the life of coach Peterson exploring those less well-known areas to the general public, with the numerous anecdotes that distinguish such a long career.
As incipit, which introduces the docufilm from March in all the rooms and then on Amazon Prime video, there is Coach playing guitar, great passion with battle horses like On the again road.
Unico sgarro la cioccolata doppia panna
Epica, the advertising of the Lipton, where Dan Peterson expressed appreciation with his classic “feenomenale”, pronounced American. That state of mind, always favourable, full of confidence and bold attitude, has made the new generations remain anchored to the figure of the coach.
As well as the managers of the Bologna team, coached by Dan Peterson long before arriving in Milan:
the spectacular thing is to see children of nine, ten years, who on campus arrived more for him than for players
Great appreciation was expressed by the U.S. Consul General Douglas Benning, intervened to remember not only the wonderful values of basketball, which induces to team spirit and respect, but also to the ability of Dan Peterson to promote it on both fronts, the Italian and the American.
His wife Laura, who confesses to his bark, thinks of him: “double chocolate with cream”.
Urbano Cairo, president of Rcs Media Group, headlines the Gazzetta dello Sport, where Dan Peterson’s articles are expected and followed and Adriano Galliani. There was a time when Silvio Berlusconi, as mentioned by Galliani, expressed his intention to entrust Dan the bench of Milan. He was a pigliatutto ace, he had taken home a Couple Italy and a shield with the Virtus. Then, the choice fell on Arrigo Sacchi “but who can say what results would Dan Peterson achieve? As Berlusconi rightly said, when one is ingenious it is in all areas.”.
An impressive synchronism is also remembered: Dan was born on January 9, 1936 in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago (with a father “traitor”, as he defines it, who held at the Chicago Cubs), given that it is the same as Olimpia.
L’articolo Dan Peterson, a film to celebrate the very Italian American who changed basketball proviene da IlNewyorkese.
