2018, Today
2018. OGGI.
After The golden years of the Derthona-Orsi duo, on the shirts a new partner arrives. You write it Bertram Yachts and it is a historic name in American boating... but in these parts we read about Beniamino Gavio who decides to link his name to that of the Derthona Basketball.
It's year zero and on the field we navigate by sight for a couple of months before coach Lorenzo Pansa shifts into high gear and, with them, 5 victories in a row that take us to the Final Eight of Italian Cup. They are played in March, in Jesi and Italy is devastated by bad weather: but another cyclone hits the Marche, and the cyclone comes from Tortona. Garri and his associates bully Trieste, crush Biella and in the final with Ravenna they play a one-sided symphony. We return to the stadium with the Cup and even now as we write, it doesn't seem true to us.
But now it's a completely different film, perhaps it will take place in Tortona again, perhaps in a large and magnificent house and perhaps the future will be even more beautiful... It will certainly always be LIONS.
