This evening there is a great Csi challenge against the champions of the Reghion but, at Pallacanestro Palmi, they are looking to the future. Here is a youth report where the club has entered into a synergy agreement with Pallacanestro Varese.
The note
Pallacanestro Palmi’s project has been clear for some time, ever since president Peppe Mauro’s club reconstituted piece by piece a yellow-blue youth academy that had been missing for too long: attention to individual and team growth, fairness on the pitch and only the proper attention to the result.
“Winning matches has never been our first objective – confirms coach De Santis – this is why we have always participated in the “right” championships for the technical and collective development of our boys, without escaping forward. Having one more or less victory at the end of the championship is worth it, what is really important is to continue on a path of growth. After all, if you do it well, the results will arrive sooner or later.”
And so it happens that after a few hours, at the Scatolone di Palmi, the Under 17s lose at home to a strong-willed and gritty Botteghelle – how well coach Musitano’s boys never gave up, winning in the final a match that had always been theirs seen chasing the hosts – and then the Under 16s beat coach Armando Russo’s highly rated Bagnara: but, what matters most, in both circumstances always showing the same game system made of continuous rotations, everyone’s involvement (five players in double figures for the Under 16s!), defense and rapid transition without ever taking your foot off the accelerator.
There could not have been a better demonstration of the new direction of Pallacanestro Palmi Youth: winning is good, but playing “right” is better – also because in the end the two things tend to coincide.
If we then add to all this projects of undoubted importance on the part of the Palmi club, such as the recent signing of a partnership agreement with the prestigious and historic Pallacanestro Varese, then we can truly say that in Palmi the future of basketball is rosy, or rather yellow-blue.
