PISTOIA – Francesco Giuseppe Cioffi, president of the Pistoia Basket City Consortium, has resigned his own resignation from the role of vice president of Pistoia Basket 2000.
“I believe and believe that the new ownership should feel largely free and fully legitimized to operate in peace: we would never want the Consortium to be read as a ‘forcing’ of its role, moreover it now represents a small percentage of ownership” underlines the number one of the consortium.
“In the last ten years of glorious and growing activity, the Consortium has always responded and has always been strongly desired: by Roberto Maltinti first of all, by Ivo Lucchesi then as well as by Antonio Caso and Massimo Capecchi until today. As well as being taken as an example by other Italian basketball realities – he continues – Our club of entrepreneurs has the vocation of creating and strengthening relationships and partnerships between subjects who recognize themselves in the values of sport and basketball in particular, all aimed at raising sponsorship for Pistoia Basket. Today we are certainly not taking a step back, but a step to the side.”
Cioffi therefore prefers to step aside, in a personal capacity, from the top roles within the Pistoia Basket 2000 structure, promising however the maximum support from the Consortium towards the red and white cause.
“We love these colors which represent the first meeting point for all consortium members: we will never leave them – Cioffi points out -. I strongly believe that Rowan and the new partners must build a new path. We, me personally, Alberto Peluffo and the Consortium, to date have perfected a project, to the best of our ability, which has led to what we are today. We have been among the main ‘decision makers’ in recent years: today with a minority share, staying at any cost is not in our power. But we will always be there, with a scarf around our neck and with a clear and already signed contract to guarantee, under the same conditions, the same benefits experienced in recent years by our consortium members. In the agreements and for the governance of the club from next season – concludes Cioffi – we have already been offered a place on the new board of directors: we will study the project and, as always, we will be ready, respecting the ambitions and concrete possibilities of the Consortium, with seriousness and respect for everyone. Loyal but with clear ideas and a precise desire to create value.”
