Klaudio Ndoja: “Derthona, an ambitious project. I will prove my worth on the pitch."
One of the first summer ads of Bertram Derthona was Claudio Ndoja, fresh from two years spent at Virtus Bologna and ready for a new adventure in a growing company. The winger is one of the most attractive players in the A2 championship, due to his great high-level experience: Ndoja himself explains that he chose Derthona Basket to ˝the great project that exists in Tortona, with a great desire to do well and grow. After two years at Virtus Bologna I needed new stimuli, to look for a team where I was at the center of an ambitious project. This is why I chose Tortona and I hope to bring here too the contribution I have always given in the teams I played for˝.
At Derthona Klaudio will meet up with several former teammates and friends, including Gergati, Spizzichini and Alibegovic. Gergati himself had an important role in the decision made by Ndoja, because ˝he spoke to me at length about the city, the strengths and weaknesses present, the ambitions of the square and this helped me in my choice. Lorenzo played a key role in this sense, then I acted as an intermediary with Spizzichini and we both met in Tortona˝.
Ndoja's high-level experience in A2 - capable of winning the championship twice with Brindisi and Virtus Bologna, in both cases in the playoffs - will be decisive immediately for Derthona Basket. It is again Klaudio who explains the difficulties of the tournament, which will be It's a little different, because we return to the old format in which the first two go up immediately and the third after the playoffs. Looking at the Western group, I believe that teams like us, Roma and Scafati have something more than the others but it will be necessary to be ready immediately and start well˝. A good start can be decisive in the race for first place in the group, because, as Ndoja says ˝the playoffs hide many pitfalls: I remember the year in Verona when we won the regular season with a 10 point advantage over the second, Brescia, and then we were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs: we must therefore try to win the regular season˝.
The winger is a player to ˝I don't like to talk about myself, I let others describe and see what type of player I am: what interests me is demonstrating my value on the pitch, because the pitch never lies˝.
Klaudio is also an active player on social networks, his name is on Instagram Klaudian13: 13 is the number he wore throughout his career and which he will continue to wear in Tortona, while Klaudiano is born ˝like a beautiful and playful fact in the year of Capo d'Orlando. I played with Gianmarco Pozzecco and he always called me that: I don't know if you remember Klaudiano and Valeriana, the tronistas of Zelig, but Pozzecco said that I looked like him and he reminds me of it every time we meet, greeting me with his pose˝.
