12.08.2022 – New point guard for the team of basketball of Cus Trieste. The militant formation in the championship of Serie C Gold in fact, he announced the purchase of the Trieste Iacopo Demarchi, born in 1999. For the 23-year-old it is a return to Trieste after spending the last two years in Veneto. In addition to being a basketball player, Demarchi is also a student: in fact, the new Cus Trieste playmaker is enrolled in the Faculty of Economics of theUniversity of Trieste and, with this transfer, it will also be easier for him to combine study and sporting activity. Moreover, from the height of his 23 years, Demarchi will be one of the “veterans” of the team of Gianluca Pozzecco.
“We acquire an important player for our puzzle – comments the team manager of the Cus Trieste Marco Torbianelli – that we already knew well for having often had him with us during training sessions and summer matches in recent years. Iacopo’s basketball curriculum speaks for itself and his leadership in the control room will be essential for the growth of the countless young players in the squad. ”. Demarchi he does not hide the enthusiasm and impatience to fully immerse himself in the new experience at Cus Trieste: “I’m happy to be returning home. It will certainly be a tough championship but it is a great challenge, for a young team like ours, to show that they can compete at the level of the others. Personally, I am very excited and I can’t wait to start the preparation and, moreover, the fact of being one of the “veterans” certainly encourages me to give even more, to drag the other guys too ”he concludes.
184 cm high, the 1999 class was born sportingly in theAzurebefore moving on to Trieste basketball in 2015/2016, playing both in the youth sector and with the first team, at the time militant in League Two. In 2017/2018 he moved to Codroipoplaying in Serie C Goldthen the following year it goes up in Serie B a Lugo di Romagna. In 2019/2020 it passes fromAncona to “his” Trieste, but the year was troubled because of the covid, and the following year he returned to Serie B a Vicenza. In 2021/2022 it drops in category but remains in Veneto, passing to Eastern Veneto Caorle in Serie C Silver. Now the return to his native Trieste, with the Cus shirt, to play the 2022/2023 championship in the Serie C Gold and put his experience and his qualities at the service of the team.
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