Pioli, Sinner, Ganna, Atalanta, Bastianini, Iapichino, Briantea 84 and Mbandà the other winners. Legend Award to Ibrahimovic and Belinelli
The night of the stars is illuminated by the champions of the year. Chosen by fans through Gazzetta.it, which streamed the 2020 edition of the Gazzetta Sports Awards live. Who are the favorites, who got it right in the end?
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Here are the winners of the 8 categories, who participated in video during the Gala hosted by Geppi Cucciari with present the president of RCS Media Group, Urbano Cairo, the director of Gazzetta dello Sport, Stefano Barigelli with his deputies, and the president of Coni, Giovanni Malagò. The evening will be broadcast on La7 on Monday 21 December at 11.50pm.
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Man of the year: Ciro IMMOBILE
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Thirty-year-old Ciro Immobile, last season’s top scorer with 36 goals, is the oldest and the only candidate in a team sport: he is the champion of the year. Golden boot in 2020, but there is much more: the desire to always improve, the ability to drag Lazio to the Champions League qualification and then to the round of 16 with his goals. Ciro has become a great scorer and is now aiming for the European championship for international consecration.
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Woman of the year: Federica BRIGNONE
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Just yesterday he obtained his last career podium in the giant of the World Cup in Courchevel: the 41st. It is the snow woman who triumphs as queen of the year: Federica Brignone was the first Italian to win the overall Alpine Ski World Cup. On the track, the Aosta Valley has shown that she deserves the triumph: 5 victories, 11 podiums, the specialty cups in giant and combined and a technical maturity and attitude that is confirming also in this new season.
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Coach of the year: Stefano PIOLI
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The 55-year-old coach from Parma has been at the helm of AC Milan since 9 October 2019 and in the second half of last season led the Rossoneri to sixth place in the league and qualification for the Europa League. He entered a streak of 23 games without any defeat. Become the first manager to score at least 2 goals in 13 consecutive games. From 8 March to 6 November 2020 he did not lose a match and continues to keep Milan at the top of the championship.
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Team of the year: ATALANTA
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Gian Piero Gasperini’s Atalanta was the most beautiful reality in provincial Italian football: the wonderful adventure in the Champions League (eliminated in the quarterfinals by Paris Saint-Germain) is a very precious lesson for those who do not recognize the importance of work, for those who he can no longer color his dreams, for those who have lost ambition. And also in the championship confirmation came with an excellent third place. A team that has also enchanted in the new Champions League.
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Exploit dell’anno: Jannik SINNER
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Jannik Sinner is no longer just the best teenager in the world, but the brightest hope of Italian tennis. In October, at Roland Garros, he gave Rafa Nadal a hard time by stopping in the quarterfinals. A month later, in Sofia, he won his first ATP title at the age of 19. There are those who see him as the future number 1 in the world. With his calm and extraordinary talent, the South Tyrolean has imposed himself on everyone’s attention and is now launched towards the highest levels of the ATP ranking (currently he is 37th).
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Revelations of the year: BASTIANINI and IAPICHINO
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The 22-year-old rider Enea Bastianini has just won the Moto2 World Championship. In the second season in the second world class he won three races and reached the podium seven times. It bears a name that recalls epic deeds. And it is Rimini, therefore coming from that area of Italy that has its epicenter on the Romagna Riviera where motorcyclists are born and grow in quantity. Next year he will go to MotoGP. Aeneas’s journey continues. Larissa Iapichino, born in 2002, jumps as far as mother Fiona, indeed with higher numbers than her at her age (the Olympic and world medalist had not gone beyond 6.27). Larissa, at the Tricolori students of Agropoli, flew to 6.64 long. A figure that is worth double for the 16-year-old Florentine: that is, a progress of 25 cm and a junior tricolor record (under 20).
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Performance of the year: Filippo GANNA
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Filippo Ganna, born in Verbania in 1996, achieved the peaks in his career in cycling and in three different moments. On the track he won gold at the World Championships for the fourth time in pursuit. Then his run to the size of a total rider culminated in the Giro. He arrived there after the final time trial at the Tirreno-Adriatico devoured in 56.6 km / h and the world title in the specialty. He immediately took the pink jersey in the inaugural time trial in Palermo and feared it for two days. Then the masterpiece, with the solo victory on the Camigliatello Silano climb. And poker with the conquest of the remaining two chrono. It was his first Giro. And to think that the first in history was won by a certain Ganna, Luigi (1883-1957).
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Paralympic of the year / BRIANTEA 84
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Unipolsai Briantea 84 Cantù won the Italian wheelchair basketball cup, the only trophy awarded in 2020. Briantea is a sports club with 5 disciplines. Candido Junior Camps were also invented, reserved for young men and women to be introduced to basketball.
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Legends: IBRAHIMOVIC and BELINELLI
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The two legends were already known. But let’s remember them.
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The eternal Ibra – Ibrahimovic has scored and won all over Europe: 4 league titles between Inter and Milan, 2 Dutch Eredivisie with Ajax, one Liga with Barcelona, 4 Ligue 1 with PSG. In England he did not win the national title but the 2017 Europa League. Champions and Golden Ball are missing, but the “god” Ibra, as he likes to define himself on social networks with the false modesty that distinguishes him, does not consider himself inferior to none: the proof of his greatness are the miracles performed from January to this part in Serie A. The 39-year-old giant from Malmoe is the totem of the young Milan who wins and has fun. In just a few months, he transformed a depressed and stammering group into a team fighting for the top. Today he is the Benjamin Button of world football: the older he gets, the more he affects.
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Beli’s ring / Belinelli has entered the history of Italian basketball. In 2014 he won the three-point shooting competition at the All Star Game and above all the NBA title with San Antonio. He is the only Italian player to have succeeded. In 2005, at the age of 19, he won the Scudetto with Fortitudo. In the summer of 2006 he participated in the World Cup and surprised everyone, especially the United States when he scored 25 points against LeBron James and company. The following year, in fact, he was chosen by Golden State and started an NBA career that took him around the US and Canada. Unlike the other Italians in the NBA, he had the luck, and the merit, of going to San Antonio and having the chance to play for the title. He won the trust of coach Gregg Popovich, one of the greatest coaches in NBA history. He has always given everything for the national team. And he always thanked Carlo Recalcati who threw him in blue. Also for this sensitivity, Beli is already a legend.
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Premio Sports Week / Maxime MBANDA ‘
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The Sportweek award was awarded to the blue of rugby Maxime Mbandà, whose 2020 was a year full of conflicting emotions: first the fear for the life of parents hospitalized for Covid, then the joy for the degree in Motor Sciences, finally the his help during the lockdown to the elderly as a volunteer of the Yellow Cross. Chapeau.
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Special award: a Lorenzo Sonego (tennis).
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