Achille Polonara moved after returning to the field

Achille Polonara is back on the court: he did so in Sassari, for the first shots of his new sporting life: “Getting the ball back in my hands after ten months was exciting. At first it felt like a first experience, but shot after shot the feeling came back.”

“For now I work individually, especially on the physical part,” he explained to Gazzetta dello Sport. “In the video you can see the first time I was shooting. I have to avoid trauma and contact, so the work with the team will start after the summer.”

In the meantime, his autobiography is out: “Telling my story was an idea I had for the end of my career, but I decided to do it now, during this stop. In the hospital, this summer, I started writing it together with Marco Garavaglia. I’m not thinking about basketball but about life, because I’m playing the most important game off the court. I just wish I had more luck (or at least less bad luck).”

“There have been very hard times, but my wife Erika has been instrumental. She always told me that I had to fight for our children (Vitoria and Achilles Jr.). Without her I would not have made it. I started an experimental therapy in Valencia to reduce the risk of recurrence. It’s a long road: it will still take 2-3 years to have certainty,” he stressed, however.