Derthona Basketball Lab signs a sports collaboration agreement with Pallacanestro Piombino
Derthona Basketball Lab ASD. is happy to announce the birth of a new partnership with the ASD Piombino Basketball. An agreement of great importance for the Tuscan club, which joins one of the most prestigious national realities in the field of youth basketball. The results obtained by Derthona in the past season, with the historic double qualification for the Under 17 Excellence and Under 19 Excellence National Finals, the latter with the title of Vice Champions, are a clear confirmation of the quality and value of this collaboration, destined to bring significant benefits to both realities.
STATEMENTS "We are proud to announce this collaboration with Derthona Basket, a leading company in the Italian basketball scene, which has been investing in the youth sector for years with the other branch of the company, Derthona Basketball Lab, building a widespread network throughout Italy and recruiting both athletes and managers and young coaches. In short, a company at the top from Serie A to the youth sector”, says the president of Pall. Piombino Francesco Barsotti. "Pallacanestro Piombino has always focused on the youth sector. Once the foundations were laid with sports facilities, we focused on identifying coaches and a sports director who could convey their professionalism within the various groups. In recent years there has been a constant increase in the number of kids, who are becoming more and more affiliated in light of a 360° daily work. The relationship with Derthona began a little over a year ago with Andrea Ablatico, Head of Derthona Basketball Lab, a friend with whom we have discussed the possibility of a collaboration between the two companies several times. Being recognized at a national level and chosen among many contenders repays us for the economic and technical efforts made in recent years. For us, having a big team like Derthona at our side will be a great incentive to improve and grow. We will start with technical collaborations on the field, then with training events for coaches and for the kids; there will be general scouting opportunities, both in Tuscany but also at an interregional level, of boys who could spend the first years of the youth sector here in our company, increasing the potential of our groups, and then take flight towards Derthona. A virtuous project, which will be refined along the way and which with Ablatico we are pleased to begin with joy and ambition for the future”.
The same is true for the Juventus partnership Andrea Ablatico"The relationship with the Piombino club, with its President Francesco Barsotti and his staff, began years ago. To be precise, in the unfortunate year of Covid in which we were invited for the first time to the prestigious Coppa Carnevale that the Tuscan club has been organizing for more than thirty years. Unfortunately at the time the meeting did not materialize due to the well-known health issues, but we had the opportunity to meet in person when, a couple of years later, we participated with our Under 19 team”, continues the manager responsible for the Juventus youth teams. “Already at the time, Francesco's perfect organizational ability, enthusiasm and competence deeply impressed me. From then on, it was a series of contacts and discussions that are now taking shape in this collaboration. We will try to demonstrate on the field what the essence of the project is with meetings and internships that we are already talking about these days. I am proud to welcome Asd Pallacanestro Piombino on board in this plan of harmonization between different companies, which unites youth sectors from all over Italy and beyond to be able to give everyone (athletes, coaches, managers) the opportunity to aspire to achieving the highest individual goals in a context of global growth that, nowadays, perhaps is a little lacking in Italian basketball. We have enough recklessness to believe in it and try. The enthusiasm of Francesco Barsotti and his team is a great injection of energy.”
