The 80s with the unforgettable Magenta women’s basketball team at the Palazzetto dello Sport

It was the 80s and the Magenta sports hall was filled to capacity with fans for women’s basketball matches. From the legendary Mapom Magenta to go up to the Primax and the fantastic Nuvenia. Four seasons of A1, Ronchetti cup, one year eighth in the standings. National and international players.

MAGENTA – A few names: Parozzi, Angiolini, Galimberti, Roberta Castiglioni from Magenta and then Valerie Still, a beautiful and talented player. And another magenta, Rossella Spaggiari. All Americans named to the American Basketball Hall of Fame. Like Theresa Edwards considered one of the strongest players in history. We wanted to relive those years with Francesco Bigogno who played good basketball at that time. Bigogno tells us some funny anecdotes. In 1987 the basketball cadets in Magenta won all the matches and the midweek training match on Wednesday was played with the women. Marco Andreoni, Andrea Annese, dear Riccardo Stranges, Fabrizio Ispano, Giovanni Sartoris.

“Naturally the recommendations that never ended was not to exceed with the markings because they were women – Bigogno jokingly recalls – But they played hard and didn’t give up anything. Sometimes we even got some satisfaction by staying to beat them”. Let’s listen to those stories in the video that we shot right in front of the building, a monument to sport that we really hope will be viable again as soon as possible. Those were years in which basketball in Magenta, and beyond, was depopulated. Milan also dominated in Europe, from the United States we began to get to know the NBA champions. And in Magenta there was women’s basketball. Mapom, Primax, Nuvenia. Unforgettable and beautiful years.