Mabel Bocchi died, the icon of blue female basketball was 72 years old

ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The world of basketball and sports in general, weep the disappearance of Mabel Bocchi.

“The president of the League Basketball Serie A Maurizio Gherardini, together with the 16 clubs, expresses the most felt condolence for the disappearance of Mabel Bocchi, a female basketball star who conquered 8 Scudetti and a Cup Champions with Geas in the 1970s. Unanimously considered the greatest player of all time of Italian women’s basketball, she was also a protagonist with the national team during a particularly successful period of Italian women’s basketball. After finishing his competitive career, he had become a professional journalist leading the basketball space in the program Rai ‘La Domenica Sportiva’. He then collaborated in the field of fitness and nutrition to many publications, including Corriere della Sera and Gazzetta dello Sport”.

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(ITALPRESS).