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Kodokan wins the Italian derby

Team Scudetto in Modena: all-Alexandrian final, silver Doshinken

MODENA – The collection of badges is getting longer. L’Accademia Kodokan for the fifth time in a row he is on Italian podium in teams, in the competition reserved for formations of three elementsi.

A Modena 21 competing companies, nearly 100 athletes selected from the best dojos throughout Italy. The teacher Nando Magarotto he chose Alberto Sozzi and the two brothers Mandia, Fabrizio and Francesco, now with positions in the national team, but always ready to defend the colors of their club. Gabriele Ventura completes the team. In the poule, victories over Piacenza and Florence. In the first round of the knockout draw, the Alexandrians face one of the favorites, Kuma No Kai Catania and eliminate her. Same fate, in the semifinal, for Brescia, great battle and three successes for Kodokan.

Which, in the final, finds the ‘cousins’ of the Doshinken, qualified in the last act at the expense of Shubukan Torino.

Tricolor in the playoff

Great balance and spectacle for the public: Sozzi wins the first match 1-0 on Francesco Mortara, Fabrizio Mandia is on Pino Scarcella, who comes back and closes 2-1. The third fight, between Francesco Mandia and Alessandro Mortara, ends in a draw. A playoff challenge is still needed to award the title. Sozzi against Alessandro Mortara: fulminating action by the Kodokan standard bearer who, in less than a minute, wins the match and delivers the championship to the dojo in via Plana.

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