Bad news for our sport in view of the Paris Olympics: the athlete will not take part in the Italian team’s expedition
The Olympic Games they are the most important and eagerly awaited event for any athlete who considers himself such. And the next ones that will be held in Paris they will be of fundamental importance in trying to win more and more medals and enrich our palmares.
However, almost four months after the first race of the Paris Olympics, Italian sport risks losing one of its most important athletes, who harbored the dream of having his say in such a tournament. There are no certainties yet, anything can happen in the next few months, but the feelings are not very positive given that he will have to recover from a very delicate operation.
Olympics, Italian national basketball team loses Gabriele Procida
Among the many disciplines in which our national team will try to prevail, we cannot fail to mention basketball, a sport that has also left its mark in previous editions with exceptional matches. However, for the moment there is still no certainty of Italian participation in the Parisian event: we will have to wait for the usual pre-Olympic tournament where the national teams who dream of landing under the Eiffel Tower will have to take a further step forward.
But the training of Gianmarco Pozzeccoif he manages to get through the preliminaries that will be played from 2 to 7 July in Puerto Rico (Italy will face the hosts and Qatar), he will most likely not have in his team Gabriele Procidakey player of Alba Berlin and one of the best basketball players available to the coach.
According to what the German club reports, the twenty-one-year-old basketball player from Como underwent an operation to correct an inflammation of the left patellar tendon. Not exactly positive news, although the hopes of having him in the team on July 27th are still very much alive. Thus on social media the German company: “Unfortunately Gabriele Procida he will be out for 3/4 months. The 21-year-old underwent surgery for irritation of the left patellar tendon and will now begin rehabilitation”.
Since three/four months is a really long time to go back to playing normally, Pozzecco he is unlikely to have his talent available unless he manages to recover in record time. But even in that case we need to see if he will be able to manage the post-operative period as best as possible (always a difficult period for anyone, even for an athlete on the rise like Procida).
