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Germani, first training between wedges and athletics

Nicola Akele, Christian Burns, Troy Caupain, Michael Cobbins, David Reginald Cournooh, Kenny Gabriel, Tommaso Laquintana, CJ Massinburg, David Moss, Tai Odiase and John Petrucelli. And then, Gabriele Ghidini, Giovanni Sambrici, Giovanni Santi and Nicolas Tanfoglio and Alessandro Bertini as aggregates. Here, looking forward to Amedeo Della Valle, still busy with the Italian national team, the players who took part in the first group training session of the Germani 2022-2023 edition. The team worked about two hours at the PalaLeonessayesterday afternoon, starting at 4pm.

The group could join Kenneth Viglianisi, 30 years old, Italian winger with German citizenship, 30 years old, last year at the Eurobasket Roma of A2 (in career also a brief experience in Germany, at Mitteldeutscher Bc). Viglianisi – whose arrival has not been made official anyway – may not be the only player added in these weeks of preparation.

First Iezzi, then coach Magro

Coach Roberto Iezzi directed the first part of the session. Then coach Alessandro Magro took the chair, and the team worked with the ball. Ghidini, Sambrici, Santi and Tanfoglio are part of the Under 19 roster, while Bertini, a product of the youth sector of Pallacanestro Brescia and already seen among the twelve in the first season of Vincenzo Esposito, will remain in the group only until tomorrow, the day in which will reach Brianza Casa Basket, a team with which he will play next season in the Serie B championship.

«It was a good training session. Our work will continue progressively – in the words of Roberto Iezzi -. I found everyone good from a physical point of view, some are in better shape, some less. As we move forward in the pre-season we will intensify the activities. The daily work will always be more intense than that of the day before. Newcomers? I like them very much, since the first training session they are following the old guard players well. For us – comments Iezzi – it is easier to have many athletes who already know our work system. It is a circumstance that makes everything faster ».

The program

The team will stay to train in Brescia until Sunday 28 August, sharing the facilities of PalaLeonessa also with the Italian national team, which has been in the city since last night, where it will be based to prepare the match against Ukraine and the one with Georgia, which will be played at PalaLeonessa on Saturday. On Monday, August 29, Moss and his companions will take the road to Wooden bridge, where the summer training camp is scheduled. “The company – reads a note – will communicate in detail as soon as possible the times and methods of participation in the training sessions of Ponte di Legno, which will be accessible to the public”.