On September 24, the field will be inaugurated and the following day, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., a training and training session will be held. Photo: Sebasti
The first court in an indoor basketball stadium adapted for the blind be inaugurated on the 24th of this month at the Club Atltico Juventud from the Buenos Aires city of Pergamino, on the 19th anniversary of the creation of this discipline, invented by a local former basketball player.
Adapted basketball for the blind is an indigenous initiative that allows the blind to play this sport, whose inventor is the former basketball player Ricardo Molinari, 68, creator in addition to the backboard, the ball, the court and the regulation for your game.
According to the schedule of activities, on September 24 municipal and provincial authorities, physical education teachers, coaches and blind athletes will inaugurate the field and the next day, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., a training and training session will be held with all participants. present and the Bsquet for the Blind faculty.
Ricardo Molinari has been working with basketball for the blind for 19 years, an idea that amazes the country and the world for its social and inclusive nature.”
The court will be the first in the country and, according to Molinari, from the world, since another that had been inaugurated in the town of Tanti (Córdoba) in March 2011, was dismantled by the Municipality, which caused the rejection of many blind and amblyopic people in Argentina.
In that year and due to the relevance of the invention, which seeks the social inclusion of the blind and their integration through sport, Molinari’s project was exhibited at the Science and Technology fair (Tecnpolis).
“This court adapted for blind basketball players, with a sound board and floating floor demarcated in relief, among other elements, was built in an enclosed space and could be carried out with the full support of the leaders of the Youth club,” Molinari told Tlam.
And he stressed that “this inclusion space for the practice of basketball will be available to all people with blindness or low vision in Pergamino, the province and the entire country, for which they will have teachers available at all times.”
The inventor said that lThe invitation also includes schools or institutions that work with blind people. “They only have to request permission, register and can even make use of a shelter for people who come from outside“, aadi.
Molinari later said that he has been working with basketball for the blind for 19 years, an idea that amazes the country and the world, due to its social and inclusive nature.
“They are 19 years of a lot of work, commitment, talks, experiences, achievements, failures, restarts, and thousands of kilometers traveled. In these almost two last decades I dedicated more time to this dream than to my own family,” added the inventor.
Meanwhile, the person in charge of the Bsquet for the Blind project at the Youth Club, Joaqun Zeperizza, told Tlam that “it is a pride” for that institution to have a field adapted for the blind to play basketball.
The club’s leadership “awaits with expectation the inauguration of the court that is the only one in the country and in the world, for those blind or visually impaired people who don’t have the possibility of practicing indoor basketball“, acot.
The field will be the first in the country and, according to Molinari, in the world. Photo: Sebastin Granata.
For his part, Daniel Viera, a blind athlete who lives in Lomas de Zamora and participated in almost all the campuses and basketball seminars for the blind in different locations, expressed to Tlam his satisfaction with the inauguration of the court in Pergamino.
“It is very important for the blind in the country to have a space to practice basketball. This does not happen in other parts of Argentina. It is very valuable for us because it allows us to play a sport and do physical activity,” he said.
And, he remarked that “basketball for the blind, in addition to being an adapted sport, fulfills a social function, because it is inclusive, it integrates us, we meet people from other places. cities of the country “.
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