Maurizio Gherardini also sends a message to Olimpia Milano and Virtus Bologna
Newly elected President of the A Series Basketball League Maurizio Gherardini spoke to Radio Rai: “For me, this first phase is mainly about studying and learning to get to know better the 16 realities that make up the League, understand their needs and priorities. The hope is to work together, comparing myself with each of the clubs in our ‘family,’ hoping to arrive at a consensus to work in a certain direction”.
“For me, too, it is about making a change, moving from a perspective of running one club for 40 years to leading 16 clubs that need to feel the League as their home, based on the services the League gives to all clubs, studying what we can possibly improve and add. I think it is also important to cross borders at the European level, to understand and study the things that work best in the top leagues in Europe what can be borrowed in our reality at the level of rules and systems. But it will also be important to talk about basketball, as our world is going through very important changes at a very high speed. That is why it is very important that clubs are protected in their investments: I am referring in particular to what is the primary investment for the future of the sport, namely the youth sectors”.
“Today we are faced with new rules that allow U.S. college teams to raid talent from teams around the world, and this can put a bit of a damper on the approach of clubs that want to continue to train talent for the future of the sport, both for the club and for the country”.
“Then there are other issues; always starting from a concept of sharing, I would also like to give relevance to the values of sustainability and of raising parameters, related not only to the sporting event on Sunday but also to the structure of a club. If it grows, that helps grow the’whole league. Therefore, I believe that there needs to be a structure in each club, based on the assumption that there are 16 different realities, guaranteeing and developing areas such as marketing, ticketing and communication to the best of our ability. All aspects that must be the basis for every club, whether they are big or not” he concluded.
