The Nazarene Sports: Basketball, Gymnastics & More!

Gala evening and presentations for the Nazarene Polisportiva, which inaugurated its 36th sporting season with the now traditional opening “Nazzaparty”. Massed behind with great satisfactions and exciting numbers the summer initiatives (the Nazzare, double sports holiday in Lignano Sabbiadoro and Cesenatico; the Nazzamp, now in its 32nd edition with an average of 130 participants per week for 12 weeks; and the Nazzainfesta, which during Carpi Summer Sport recorded the sold out), the Polisportiva Nazareno gathered at the More Food of the Staff Club, Sponsors and athletes of all the many – and new – disciplines of the 2025-26 season. The president Davide Testipresenter for one evening, in fact illustrated to the very numerous audience that alongside the historical sectors of the Polisportiva, namely basketball, artistic gymnastics and cheersport and the “young” volleyball, there will also be Frisbee from this year – entrusted to Riccardo Montanari e Giovanni “Gigi” Spigato – And the Badminton. segue

“Last year we reached the maximum historical number of members between the various disciplines we organize – says President Testi -. This year we introduce the novelty of the Frisbee by welcoming the boys of the Metacarpi who from this year will be part of the Polisportiva with two male teams who will milite in Serie A and two youth groups. The bearing columns remain basketball and gymnastics, but volleyball is also becoming an important sector on a numerical level and this year we have chosen to set up a more advanced Under 18 group to try to set up a first team. Finally, we are opening a path with Badminton, a request that comes to us from Carpigiani athletes and other communities that live in Carpi and historically played in Badminton ». The Nazarene family will also continue to set up the Blue Team, a basketball team in agreement with the AUSL for autistic boys, who will still be trained by Gabriele Case.

“You have to go more than proud of what you have done – says the councilor for sport Mariella LugliGuest of the evening-In addition to the competitive results you can enhance important elements such as sociality and inclusion, and many new challenges between new disciplines, a new home for gymnastics, agreements with other sports clubs for an outdoor space to co-manage. You are a point of reference in the city ». segue

If Frisbee and Badminton are the news, the historical heart of the Nazarene is in basketball and gymnastics. «We are returning from the first year in our new home that has allowed us to open courses never done before like those for the little ones and the third age – says the head of the gymnastics sector Maddalena Bigearelli -. We are 20 coach and 20 deputy, a lot of people who hope to have a lot of athletes who share these passions ». The basketball (of which we will deal with a special week) will instead be struggling with a new challenge to the Regional Division Championship 2: “We have invested by inserting many new guys in the team but without distorting the philosophy of making our boys of the nursery grow,” explains President Testi.

Last but not least, volleyball, which will still count on the talents on the bench of the Olympian Tay Aguero e Luciano Molinari: “This year, among the six groups set up, an under 18 debuts that one day will be our first team – says Molinari -. It is a group of girls started by me as a child, here I found the dream that they could train, get involved and dream of being able to get to a high level ».

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