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Ramagli: "De Raffaele a brother, nice shot by Cantù: he will bring so much"

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Alessandro Ramagli, coach of Gruppo Mascio Bergamo, is more than a friend of Acqua S.Bernardo’s new coach Walter De Raffaele. “For me, he is a brother”, he began at the end of the victorious game in Monza with Tezenis Verona.

Mauro CornoBallacanestro Cantù returns to the’Olympus of Italian basketball

A historic club the Cantù Basketball, for some years griffata Acqua S.Bernardo
Expression of a town of just over 40 thousand inhabitants, in Brianza, about fifty kilometers from Milan…
… on his trophy cabinet he has two Champions Cups (the current Euroleague), three Italian championships and a variety of other trophies…
… among them four Cup Winners’ Cups and four Korac Cups
In 2021, at the end of a tribulated and unfortunate season, it was relegated to the A2 series…
… a complex and competitive championship, with so many noble lapses and from which it is difficult to rise again
This time President Roberto Allievi's team made it…
…at its helm a returning horse, Nicola Brienza
Blue white team star Grant Basile…
… a powerful and soft-handed center…
… capable of hurting opponents even from long distance and here with Joonas Riismaa, an Estonian of Italian training
Basile’s move to 'Italian' status allowed the club to sign another foreigner, Dustin Hogue
Great the talent of Tyrus McGee, the'other foreigner, already champion d'Italia with Reyer Venezia
In the roster, then, many Italians of the highest level, such as Riccardo Moraschini…
… the'former Virtus Bologna Filippo Baldi Rossi, captain of the Canturini…
… Leonardo Okeke, Fabio Valentini, who grew more and more…
… Matteo Piccoli, a great fighter…
… and, of course, Andrea De Nicolao, a crystalline talent who also in the playoffs has often made a difference

“For me it would have been easier not to come to Bergamo, and still wait,” he adds. “For Walter it would have been easier not to go to Cantù and still wait. He is a coach who can also aspire to work abroad, at a high level. But a coach, as my friend Alessandro Frosini says, wants to … coach. And so he also accepts challenges that are a bit borderline, the challenges that maybe not everyone would take. So I’m not very surprised that Walter went to coach a team that right now is at the bottom of the league“

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“In Cantù Walter can bring organization, attention to detail, humanity, care for people. And I believe that in such a difficult moment as the one the Brianza team is going through, having a person who knows how to put so much of basketball inside, but above all knows how to put so much from the human point of view, could represent that quid that could allow a team in difficulty to turn around. And that could allow it to have a different championship, with less pressure on it, perhaps winning some unexpected games” continues the seasoned Labronico coach.

“I wish him more than just ‘good luck,’ for that matter I have already done it to him in these days when we have been in touch. In summary if Walter could wait for Cantù it was really a good blow” Ramagli concludes.

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