Falilou mbacke is a new player of Raggisolaris. The Italian Senegalese wing, born in 2004, is ready to show also in Romagna its qualities, which have pushed the Scaligera VeronaSerie A2 club, to focus on him.
Mbacke arrives on loan from Scaliger Verona, Serie A2 clubs
The player is in fact owned by the Veneto club who has in his youth sector since 2020 and sent him to loan Ai Saggisolaris. Wing of great athleticism thanks to its 204 cm, Mbacke has shown himself in all youth formations and has always been included in the first team who played in A1 and A2. In the last season he has been divided between Verona (Serie A2) e Virtus Lumezzane (National B) where he moved to December.
The Mbacke sports curriculum
That Mbacke became a basketball player was obvious, because he has basketball in DNA.
Born in Vicenza on November 23, 2004, Mbacke moved to Dakar at five years and right in Senegal He starts to love basketball, growing up in a family of basketball players. Uncle Libass trains in Dakar, the uncle Papa Gaye he has played for over ten years in the maximum Japanese professional league, and the cousin Seydina is fathered. He played in Spain in Baskonia and is still in the Iberian championship.
In 2020 after the Lockdown due to Covid, Mbacke returns to Italy Together with his uncle Ndiaeka Faye, a former player of the Veronese Minors, and just a Verona He begins his adventure in Italian basketball. In the youth sector from the ScaligerA enters 2020/21 playing in the Under 17 Excellence and kicks off a path that ends in theUnder 19 Excellencewhere it touches the national category finals.
Always at the youth level disputes the IBSA Next Gen Cup with Verona in 2022/23 and with the Balcanestro Brescia In 2023/24, reaching the Final Eight in both editions. Mbacke has always been inserted in Roster of the first Veronese teamdebuting in Serie A2and last December is loanned to the Virtus Lumezzane In National B, where in 15 games he scores 5.8 points on average in 17.8 minutes on average played. Now he is ready to give his best in the Saggisolaris.
Mbacke: “Saggisolaris important stop of my career”
“In the last championship I didn’t play the game in Faenza – explains Mbacke – but I stayed hit by the building and the heat of the fans: I understood that in this city you live in basketball. The managers of the Scaligera advised me to come and play in the Saggisolaris, considering it one important stage of my career to grow and I am also convinced that it is an excellent opportunity. I talked to Coach Pansa And I am really very motivated to play in front of a passionate audience. In the field I have always put myself at the service of the team and my companions and I think it is the most important thing. I like to defend and go rebound and I think they are my greatest qualities. “
The comment of the sports director Andrea Baccarini
“We decided to invest in Mbacke following the corporate line to build a young team. Coach Pansa sees great potential in him and we are happy to have supported this desire. We considered it functional to the team game And we believe that Faenza can be an important experience for its growth. It is very motivated and in addition to athletic qualities it has good hands to pull and pass the ball. It has great potential that are still unexpressed as it is right that it is for a 2004 boy and we want to give him the opportunity to play minutes and experience. We expect a lot from him. “
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