Important news at “Andrea Pasca” Nardò at the gates of the new 2022/2023 competitive season. The patron’s company Carlo Durante restarts from the upper floors with a passing of the baton to the presidency. Ivan Marapresident of the last five-year grenade, hands over the office to Cesare Barbetta, entrepreneur and well-known face in the grenade house, already Main Sponsor last season with the “Next” brand. The latter will be joined by the vice president Marco Papadiaalready manager in the last competitive season.
“I welcome my appointment as President of” Andrea Pasca “Nardò with enthusiasm and pride – declared Barbetta – for this new season and I will be the spokesperson for the decisions of the company management who will always count on the support of Ivan Marra, whose presidency in these five years has enriched us with historical achievements and unforgettable emotions. I am and we are eager to take Nardò higher and higher on the national basketball stage ».
The change of presidency also follows the change of company name identified in HDL “Andrea Pasca” Nardò by virtue of the agreement with the new Title Sponsor which will be HDL – Handling Delivery Logistics, a company with over twenty years of experience in the logistics and transport sector both nationally and internationally.
News also in technical field. Following the consensual termination of the relationship with the coach Michele Battistini due to non-basketball reasons, the grenade association has reached the formal agreement it will bring Gennaro Di Carlo to sit on the grenade bench as Head Coach in the 2022/2023 season.
Casertano, born in 1973, Di Carlo was born professionally in the youth teams of JuveCaserta, the historic Italian basketball center. Then Maddaloni, Imola, Montegranaro, Virtus Roma and Scafati, interspersed with the parenthesis of Sant’Antimo, Treviso and probably the most important experience at Orlandina Basket. In Sicily one year as deputy and three years as head coach, disputing the Champions League and signing the first historic victory in the Serie A playoffs in Capo d’Orlando, against Olimpia Milano. Following, Piacentina, Montegranaro and Mantua, the last in chronological order.
An experienced profile, that of the coach from Campania, who still wants to get involved: “The reasons that lead me to Nardò are simple – says Di Carlo – because Nardò is a warm square, which is growing and who wants to improve in important way. I hope that the club has glimpsed in me the right person to face the next season which we certainly foresee difficult, due to the reform that will be implemented and the six relegations planned this year. I am convinced that we will make a fair, important path, and that it will be able to satisfy the passion and warmth that the fans show for this sport in the Nardò area ».
Coach Battistini will still remain in the grenade and will continue to follow the youth scene of the “Andrea Pasca”, as well as in the seasons that have just passed.
