There Varese Basketball Look to Europe.
This time the market gets it right, because the attention of the club President Toto Bulgheroniare aimed at requesting wild cards to participate in the next one FIBA Europe Cup.
As underlined on several occasions by the company, participation in a European cup, albeit the least prestigious, is a fundamental step in the process of development And revaluation of the red and white brand also in the continental field, which must be carried forward year after year.
Looking at last season, one might also rightly say that the greatest satisfactions in a season lacking in such, the red and whites took away precisely in Europestarting from a preliminary of BCL played excellently against FMP and Cholet (a team clearly better equipped than Varese) and then right in FIBA Europe CupWhere the Itelyum came one step away from the final, surrendering only in the second leg of the semi-finals against Bahcesehiralso thanks to the worst performance of the season (the only real failure in 4 months) of Nico Mannion.
It’s true, the FIBA Europe Cup is a cup that starts to become really attractive from the second round onwards, but it’s also true that for a team like the current Varese, which will also change several performers this yearthe possibility of playing continuously and finding ground to build certainties regarding the championship, is certainly something not to be underestimated.
But let’s get back to the registration application, to be submitted by June 24thwith the relevant tax to be paid by July 5thwhen the red and whites will have the first team skimming from the transfer market, given the deadlines of June 30th Morettinow close to moving to Venice, McDermott, Brown And Mannion for the escape relating to the European teams.
Varese which is certain, in the case of participation in the next FIBA Europe Cup, to count on the support of the European shirt sponsor, Itelyum and on the hunt for other partners who can support and finance a European campaign in any case onerousgiven the possible long trips and considering the little economic return that the competition provides in terms of prizes.
Economic return possibly to be sought in takings from the buildingwith the fans who last year, for a change, once again showed their all Love for this club, attending in good numbers all the European home matches of the red and whites.
Biancorossi who, this year, unlike last season, will not try to land in BCL and that, to secure the one in the FIBA Europe Cup, they will have to wait for the new admission criteria (being defined) of the FIBA Europe Cup, even if by reputation Varese is a serious candidate to participate in the cup, despite the third last place in the championship last season which could somehow put a spanner in the works for the red and whites, who will have to wait for the admission applications from the other Lega Basket teams (Tortona and Sassari in pole position), to understand their destiny. In the event that two LBA entities like those mentioned applied to access FIBA, Varese would start from preliminaries of the competition, which should be played between the second and third week of September.
Alessandro Burin
