ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “We hope the regularity of the championship and Trapani will play both in the Champions League and in the championship. Since this year things have changed for basketball and football: today there are superior and external organs and federation can speak only through documents. This year an external authority has entered, wanted by the government that controls the accounts. The federation acts on documents and news from the Revenue Agency. My task and experience suggest not to give personal judgments.” So Gianni Petrucci, president of Federbasket, guest of Radio Anch’io Sport on Rai Radio 1, on the Trapani Shark case, after the decision of the Sicilian company not to show up in Bologna for the championship match against the Virtus. Would it take more preventive control for such cases? “This is a phrase that is used every time a society fails. When a team enrolls and thinks they have all the documents in order, the federation can do nothing. A Serie C team has already failed in football, Rimini. When I was in Federcalcio, professional societies were more than 100. So many failed, in football as in basketball. There is no prior control in front of an entry to a championship.”.
On the National Team, with the arrival on the bench of the ct Banchi, Petrucci added: “The expectations of a president are to win, go to the World Championship and go to the Olympics. We have a great technician like Luca Banchi: he was the best technician of the World Championship. Maybe the best coach in the world has us. I say it with emphasis but also with realism. I add that another great coach like Peppe Poeta was born: he trains a great team and is a technician on which everyone can rely because he has an exceptional charism. Coaches have them, now they need players. Now there are young players: we have won the Weight 20 at European level, we are among the places at youth level both male and female. The assumptions are there, but then as they say: the oral counts, but the writing is more important.” On the NBA in Europe, Petrucci is very positive: “I’m excited about the return of Rome to great basketball, but the whole world of Italian basketball is excited about this opportunity. Rome and Milan will participate in the national championship mandatoryly and for the first time it will be official that they will give us players for the nationals. It will also be a big flyer for trade. And then there are giants in the world like Manchester, Paris, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid. He also understands the competition that has Italian basketball. No other sport has such a ruthless competition of colossi, apart from football.”.
In a month the Italian Winter Olympics will start, Milan-Cortina is now at the door: “As president of the Coni I had the Turin Olympics: the merit was not mine, but of lawyer Agnelli. They were successful, it was said that Turin had changed. I went around Turin and people thanked me. As it will be now for Milan-Cortina. Then every Olympiad has delays, but in the end it will be all right. Rome 2020 was a very serious lack. There have been many beautiful things in Rome with the Jubilee. This is because the great manifestations carry works and the works have been done. In Milan-Cortina we will make a beautiful figure: we have great champions, two great federations, I am pleased that the Olympics presides over Malagò, who has great experience. You will see that in the end all these gossip and difficulties will be overcome.”.
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