With a council resolution, approved yesterday afternoon, the municipal administration made official the holding of the 1st “Latina City Tournament – Basketball in the square”, from July 1st to 21st, giving the event its patronage.
Upon the direction of the mayor Matilde Celentano, the executive accepted the aims of the event proposed by the amateur sports association “Gli amici del basketball”, which is to give visibility to the values of team play understood in its broadest sense, as a relationship of union both among young people but also among the less young, strengthening the sense of group and the values of friendship in a healthy and intelligent competition. At the same time, the council itself deemed it appropriate for the Municipality to actively participate in the organization and carrying out of the event, collaborating and providing its logistical support.
“I immediately shared the idea of holding the basketball tournament in Piazza del Popolo – said Mayor Celentano – because I am sure that it will attract thousands of people, revitalizing the historic center and livening up the summer evenings. Basketball, according to the proposed format, is not just sport, but is participation, inclusion and aggregation, that is, those same values that in the past embodied the historic basketball tournament staged from 1988 to 2017″.
The amateur sports association “Gli amici del basketball”, according to the council resolution approved today, will have to provide, at its own expense and responsibility, the entire management of the event, the acquisition of the authorizations required in compliance with the requirements imposed by the bodies control.
“The event would take place at the opening of the city’s summer season, thus stimulating all the citizens of Latina to leave their homes, to experience the square in that same spirit of sharing and sociality as well as opportunities, leisure and refreshment that it will make everyone an actor in the event, on and off the pitch”, concluded the mayor of Latina, thanking the “Gli amici del basketball” association and the committee promoting the initiative.
