A burst of waivers for the national basketball team for the pre-Olympic in Belgrade. After yesterday’s Marco Belinelli, today the news that too Luigi Datome could give up. Nothing is official yet, but La Gazzetta dello Sport reports it this morning from very reliable sources, verified and confirmed also by the The messenger. The player, contacted by us, has not provided his official version for the moment, but it now seems certain that the captain of the national team will miss the appointment at the end of June (played from 29 June to 4 July) who is giving away a place at the Olympics in Tokyo 2020.
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Italy has been missing from the event since 2004 and against Serbia, hostess, hopes now seem to be even lower than at the beginning. The decision is awaited Danilo Gallinari, engaged in Nba with his Atlanta Hawks in the Eastern Conference semifinal against the Philadelphia Sixers: the series is 2-2 and everything is still open.
For Datome it would mainly be a renunciation for health reasons. The player ofOlimpia Milan, in fact, he is struggling with one annoying bursitis in the right elbow who showed up at the Euroleague Final Four in Cologne and never left him alone, limiting his performance, for what remained of a season in which theA|X Armani Exchange he played 92 official matches, of which Datome played 89.
On the other hand, the choice of Marco Belinelli, fresh winner of the Scudetto with the Virtus Bologna: «The season was very demanding from a physical point of view for me and I arrived in Bologna in December without having attended the training camp – says Belinelli. This led me to finish the season with several problems that will prevent me from being 100 percent. I will support my teammates in every way during the pre-Olympic tournament ».
The federal president, Gianni Petrucci, at the news of Belinelli’s resignation he expressed “regret”, we do not know what his reaction will be to the now certain choice of Datome. The national team coached by Romeo Sacchetti he loses two key pieces in 24 hours. Who is back in blue and is training with great intensity is Nik Melli, around which the blue technical staff will have to build all their game, giving up the quality of their most experienced men and looking for immediate answers from the youngsters. Against Serbia, which will also have some defections, but is a team capable of bringing many other talents to the national team, a real sporting “miracle” will be needed.
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