Wheelchair basketball. Cimberio HS Varese to the all star game of saturday in Matera
Cimberio Handicap Sport Varese will be present to the All Star Game 2015 that will take place on Saturday 7th February in Matera, starting from 10.30am in front of cameras of Rai Sport.
On the field there will be five players of Varese team: Nicola Damiano, Jacopo Geninazzi and Francesco Roncari (the sole new entry in blue jersey, compared to the team that participated to the last World Championship in South Corea) will be part of the national team managed by Dionigi Cappelletti, while Joakim Blomquist and Joakim Lindblom will play in the representative of the best foreign players of the championship selected by Malik Abes, coach of UnipolSai Briantea 84 Cantù, champion of Italy.
It is four years that All Star Game represents a moment of great celebration for the wheelchair basketball organization. Last edition was organized in Varese, to the Pala Whirlpool, where we played in front of 3000 spectators with the management of Handicap Sport Varese that celebrated in the best way the thirty-year of foundation and its return to A league.
Previously All Star Game laid over in Alba Adriatica (2013), Sondrio (2012) and in Lanciano (2011).
THE TEAMS
Italy: 4 Fabio Raimondi (Banco Sardegna Sassari), 5 Jacopo Geninazzi (Cimberio H.S. Varese), 6 Cosimo Caiazzo (Banca Marche Santo Stefano), 7 Nicola Damiano (Cimberio H.S. Varese), 8 Galliano Marchionni (Amicacci Giulianova), 9 Francesco Santorelli (UnipolSai Briantea 84 Cantù), 10 Francesco Roncari (Cimberio H.S. Varese), 11 Filippo Carossino (UnipolSai Briantea 84 Cantù), 12 Matteo Cavagnini (Santa Lucia Roma), 13 Stefano Rossetti (Santa Lucia Roma), 14 Ahmed Rourahi (Santa Lucia Roma), 15 Fabio Bernardis (Nordest Gradisca). Coach Dionigi Cappelletti.
All Star Selection: Joakim Blomquist (Sweden – Cimberio H.S. Varese), Joakim Lindblom (Sweden – Cimberio H.S. Varese), Martin Edwards (Great Britain – Banco Sardegna Sassari), Gaz Choudhry (Great Britain – UnipolSai Briantea 84 Cantù), Jordi Jordan Ruiz (Spain – UnipolSai Brkiantea 84 Cantù), Brian Bell (USA – UnipolSai Briantea 84 Cantù), Ante Stimac (Croatia – Pdm Treviso), Ian Sagar (Great Britain – UnipolSai Briantea 84 Cantù), Andrezj Macek (Poland – Amicacci Giulianova), Jeime Mazzi (USA – Millennium Padova), Sofyane Meiahoui (France – Santa Lucia Roma), Adolfo Berdun (Argentina – Santa Lucia Roma). Coach Malik Abes.
Referees: Del Gaudio (Assisi), Guarino (Campobasso), Barbiero (Campobasso).
From next week it will return the championship with play off quarter final (at the best of the two matches). Cimberio Handicap Sport will be on the field in Giulianova against Amicacci team.
The return match will be plaid in Varese, at PalaWhirlpool, on Saturday 21st February at 8.30pm.