A home-made triumph. The Badminton Club Milan wins its eighth championship in its over forty-year history (it was founded in 1979) by beating Matex MaraBadminton in the final and does so a few months after changing president. Alberto Miglietta, candidate for the top management of the Italian Weightlifting Federation, in fact left the helm to Giuseppe Luca Caracausi last December 18th. On his debut in his new role, Caracausi, who in the past was also coach and sporting director at the club, immediately achieved a great victory, subverting the odds. “In recent years we have always been on the podium, but now we have won a championship that had been missing for four years – he states – We did it as outsiders, we were not the favorites on the eve of the championship or even the playoffs. Matex has players of the highest caliber international, while we field boys who grew up in our youth team, Milanese, plus the only foreign representative who is the Frenchman Julien Maio”. This is not the only peculiarity of this triumph. “Our Emma Piccinin found in the third match of the final a great opponent in Gianna Stiglich, whom she had never beaten in her career. This year Emma won 21 matches out of 22, losing only against Tomalova in the match we played against Brescia and triumphing in all the others in both singles and doubles – the president continues – If we had lost we still had two matches, the men’s singles in which we would have been favorites and the mixed doubles in which we would have had no chance”.
In addition to the Milanese nature, BC Milano pushed the young age of the kids. Rampant 16-17 year old athletes, like Zyver De Leon or Simone Piccinin, Emma’s brother. Even those who didn’t grow up in BC still have strong roots. “Fabio Caponio has been playing with us for twelve years, captain Gianmarco Vailetti arrived when he was 13 and coach Megumi Sonoda, Japanese, has been at BC Milano for twenty years”, continues Caracausi, who is already looking to the future. “The objective will be to win again with our players. At most by inserting some young players due to injuries. Emma’s 22 matches, in a ten-day championship, are a lot. We hope that she and Martina Corsini can go to the national team, but if it happens they won’t play with us because the calendars are overlapping.”
2024-05-16 08:56:05
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