Qualification for the Basketball World Cup, double match against Iceland for the Azzurri

On the day of the presentation of the new main sponsor of the Ita Airways national basketball team, there was also a lot of talk about the pitch. Thursday evening will be qualifying time for the next World Cup and Coach Sacchetti’s team will fly to Iceland to face the hosts. Match that will be repeated in inverted fields on Sunday evening in Bologna at the Paladozza: “The first match is always the most important, we talked a lot about the Olympics in this press conference, but our future is now these two games. We have a group that really want to play for the national team, a goal that is never easy to achieve. We will play in this beautiful facility that we would like to see full, but even at 60% we are sure that the setting will be important ”. Captain of this blue expedition in the absence of Gigi Datome engaged with Milan in the Euroleague, the top scorer of Serie A Amedeo Della Valle: “It is a beautiful group, guys who know each other with a coach who transmits great positivity – explained the Brescia guard – it will be our strength to win these two games which will be very complicated. ”There are some jabs from President Petrucci on the national question. For years now, Euroleague players have not been able to play in the windows dedicated to the national team, as the highest European club competition does not stop. “I am happy to be in Bologna in this splendid building – commented Petrucci – but I would like to play these matches with the best team. I am genuinely tired of this situation. Basketball is the only sport in the world where players can skip the national team. In football we make players make intercontinental trips, the coaches grumble, but then the rules remain the same and the national teams are protected. In basketball this is not the case but I hope that the negotiations with Eurolegue that have been going on for a long time will lead to a solution in the short term “.