SIENA. The 2021 baseball season starts, with the Siena Baseball Club, branded Estra, which will be busy at the starting line with two teams, the Serie C and the Under 12 team. A good sign – and a good effort – for a club born in last December and which, in just over five months and in the middle of the pandemic period, managed to set up a respectable structure, supported by the main sponsor Estra and by the partner Vismederi, but also by the city institutions, in particular by the Municipal administration of Siena.
The commitment made by the company led by president Bonazzola to guarantee the 2021 season has been remarkable, with a commitment that has proved pressing for the managers and technicians (Antonio Rodriguez, Francesco Giusti, to whom the Cuban and former Olympic coach Jesus Barroso) for youth recruitment, in order to create a solid base and spread this sport in the municipal area of Siena. “The biggest challenge is to maintain this pace and, if possible, try to do more with the double responsibility dictated by the trust that many families place in us and by the need to respect the many rules imposed by Covid”, says the top Juventus manager. .
Currently the Siena Baseball Club does not have its own facility and has been forced to divide, for training, between the Siena school field and the sports facilities located in the Sarajevo Children’s Park in Strada del Petriccio, both made available by the Administration. municipal.
“Obviously the unavailability of the only baseball facility in our Province, the Castellina Scalo diamond,“ off limits ”for our society, requires us to live this way. Our Under 12s saw a baseball field for the first time on the occasion of the first championship in Antella, the Serie C, to better prepare for the season, trained on the Meroni football field in Torre Fiorentina, first, and , then, organized friendlies every week, weather permitting “, says the Juventus management, which is waiting to sign a legal agreement with the Monteriggioni baseball club for the use of the” Scialoja “stadium, for consideration, for only the matches of the Serie C and Under 12 championships, while the Castellina Scalo club has not declared itself available to any type of agreement for training.
If the Under 12 championship started a week ago, Estra’s Serie C will start today (May 23) on the field of Wi Planet Montefiascone, the young second team of the team that plays in Serie A.
Many new faces in the Juventus jersey for this season. From Fiorentina baseball came shortstop – pitcher Miguel Antonio Bonilla Castro, an Italian-trained athlete born in 1997, who three years ago wore the jersey of a Sienese baseball club. With Bonilla came the former Antella the Mercedes receiver. From the New Panthers Lucca came the Dominican third base Luis Gustavo Pena (1999), formerly Fiorentina baseball, and, the latter with the loan formula, the center winger De La Rosa. The ex Arezzo Buret Carmona (1988) winger is also registered, while on the mountain to report the return of the very young Paul Hendrick Castillejos, already a rising star at the youth level of Sienese baseball. In the last few hours, the arrival in black and white of the former second base from Arezzo Leandro Fernandez Matos (2001), of Dominican nationality, sixth at bat and starter in the Arezzo team last year, has been recorded. Fernandez Matos was seen in action in the closing stages of the friendly match in Rome with Cali and was then registered. To these are added some well-known faces of the Juventus teams of the past years, registered in the Serie C championships by Siena Baseball Monteriggioni, such as the Italian-trained athletes Berroa de Jesus, German de Jesus, Paulino Sanchez, Selmo, the Italians Deurys Rodriguez and José Sanchez, foreigners Aquino and veteran Antonio Rodriguez.
