from Naples basketball to the national team, he marked the gigantic Semionova

She passed away at the age of 81 due to a tumor that attacked her a few years ago, Rita Acquavivagreat protagonist of women’s basketball in the 60s and 70s, a Neapolitan player who reached the highest level in Turin with Fiat in Serie A which also brought her national team call-ups and 21 appearances.

Pivot, 1.82m, in a match against Russia she was forced to mark the gigantic Uliana Semionova, 2.13, two Olympic gold medalists, managing to limit her.

He grew up in Vomero, in Collana with Pallacanestro Napoli Dante Maioranione of the great fathers of Neapolitan basketball, before going north.

The Acquaviva family is a wonderful lineage of basketball players, because in addition to Rita there was Carmine, a winger/pivot from the Partenope school who gravitated into the orbit of Serie A from the time of the victory of the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1970 and then played in Brindisi with Pentassuglia and others Naples with Ovomaltina Berkmans.

And then Carmine’s son, Alessandro, who played with Fortitudo Bologna and then also in the NCAA at Fordham University in New York. As well as grandchildren who also played basketball at an excellent level.

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