ROMA (ITALPRESS) – From Claudio Ranieri, to Jury Chechi, passing through Ferdinando De Giorgi on behalf of a blue volley that does not want to be satiated of success. These are the stories of sports companies that master the stage of the Salone d’Onore del Coni on the occasion of the award ceremony ASI Sport & Culture.
To do the honors of the house is Claudio Barbaro, undersecretary to the Mase and president ASI: “The sport has a lot of facets, with social, cultural, environmental and employment relapses. They are a series of aspects that we are trying to interconnect in this award to demonstrate that sport is not only the achievement of the result, but a world that crosses many interests and that can be central in the dynamics of growth of the country”, said Barbaro in the margin of a ceremony that saw the presence among others of the President of the Coni Luciano Buonfiglio Institute, the managing director of Sport and Health Diego Nepi Molineris, the president of the Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026 This year’s novelty is the establishment of the recognition dedicated to Italians in the world.
The first winners were Claudio Ranieri, for his various experiences in the English, Spanish, French and Greek championships, and Vincenzo Alberto Annese, who led teams in 14 countries between clubs and nationals and currently Ct of the Burkina Faso national team. “The dreams are always there, because to stop dreaming means to have closed. I still have so many dreams to realize, but you have to work hard to reach them”, the words of the former technician of Rome, today senior advisor of Friedkin, as well as creator of the miracle Leicester Premier champion in 2016. An enterprise that is in the books of history, as is that of the blue volleyball, represented by the Ct of the Italvolley male Ferdinando De Giorgi, who received the award of “Athlete of the Year” destined for the entire movement of the Italian volleyball: “We created a very special group and it was beautiful that the last point of the world won was of Anzani. He then gave the farewell to the national team, even if Italy never says goodbye, it is like the family…”.
In the section “ICSC, Plants and Sports Promotion”, it is Sport and Health to win the award for making Caivano a unique social integration model. Present l’ad Nepi Molineris: “Today Sport and Health feels like a sports worker, we want to build and put our hands where it serves and does it seriously. We realized that sports facilities have to do them in 18 months, there are no alibis.” Then the other categories. Starting from the legendary Jury Chechi, winner of the “Premio Media”, entitled to the memory of Gian Piero Galeazzi. Then the “Gesto Etico” award, titled to the memory of Fabrizio Quattrocchi and assigned to Marco Matteazzi, the young man who transformed the wound of bullying into an incredible resilience test, running 100 half marathons in 100 days and then 100 marathons in three months, while the “Technological Innovation” award went to Ecopneus, the consortium that transformed a concrete waste to be applied also in sport.
Finally, a special recognition for Giovanni Malagò, n.1 of Fondazione Milano-Cortina 2026: “It will be a reference model, France for 2030 followed the same type of design.” A legacy for the future, dedicated to sport and culture.
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