A few days before the start of the playoff adventure, the general director of Ferrara Basket Stefano Michelini and the captain Mathias Drigo visited the “Carlino” editorial office. A nice chat, which we hope will be a good omen in view of the decisive phase of the season: the biancazzurri, on Wednesday 8 May at 8.45pm, will host Gardonese in game one in a series that promises to be quite close. “At the beginning of the year there was a bit of distrust towards us – Michelini’s words -, in an increasingly less sustainable basketball world the dream was to build a 360 degree project. After months we can say we have taken steps important: we have a role of dissemination and proselytism, we leave the realities that accompany us the freedom to operate as they see fit, but by uniting in key moments like the one we are about to face. The ‘Digital Alliance’ project is our ark, on which seventeen city clubs have risen, and establishes the ‘mission’ of Ferrara Basket: we want to enter schools to rebuild a young audience that can join our season ticket holders and supporters closest to us fans will be close to us, even more than they have done so far: for us it is a pride to know that in the fourth series there is an average of 7-800 people supporting us, even more so after a failure.
But I don’t feel like making proclamations, too many have already been made in the past, and then we saw how it ended.” In addition to the sporting project, therefore, many social initiatives which have brought young people closer to the ball, and which Michelini intends to carry this forward in the future as well: “The dream for next year is to revive a great school tournament between city institutes, we are already working on it with some teachers and we hope to set it up with the start of the new season sporty.
In recent months we have taken root in the area, opening up to the city and the associations, we hope to reap the fruits of this work with a further increase in attendance at the sports hall in this final phase of the season”.
Jacopo Cavallini
