A presence that is firmly planted in the heart.
Being a good boy, a crystalline talent, that love for the wedge ball born at a young age that made him arrive early in the basketball world and marked him as one of the most interesting realities.
Then, by a curse called leukemia, his light went out. But not in the heart of Cantù basketball which, twenty years after his death on January 12, 1991, remembers him with the same affection as ever. And she continues to consider him as the sixth man on the court who can give her, wherever he is now, support in difficult moments.
That same support he, Denis Innocentin, was able to give to the Canturino association between 1977 and 1987, leaving a legacy of 331 appearances and 2184 points scored. A presence that is well planted in the heart, therefore.
On the sporting level as on the human one. “” Thirty years have already passed since the death of Denis Innocentin – writes the Acqua San Bernardo in a note – a huge void for basketball fans and Canturini fans. On January 12, 1991, at the premature age of 29, Innocentin became died after a long battle for a severe form of leukemia only two months later, on March 26, he would have turned thirty “.
In addition to the “good shot on the field”, the Canturino association remembers with emotion how Denis was “a boy with a good soul and who loved to group, both with Italian and American teammates, a boy with a heart of gold who had his greatest passion in music “. A lesson in life and way of living sport, his, which the dust of the past years has fortunately not been able to devour. “His memory is therefore unforgettable – continues the Canturina club – his presence, because before a player Denis Innocentin was a man”.
Cantù wants to think of him in heaven with his tank top number four always sewn on him in white and blue colors which, the note concludes, “for ten long years of his short life have accompanied him sportingly”.
In addition to the Canturina jersey, with which he started in 1977 from the youth teams before joining the first team when his name was Jollycolombani, Innocentin also wore that of the Aurora Desio, registering 29 appearances between 1987 and 1988.
