While news is awaited on the repechage issue, but with the passing of the hours Ferrara’s eventual arrival in B1 becomes less and less probable, the blue and white market is starting to move after a few weeks of stalemate in which the club has concentrated on other negotiations which, to unless there are sensational twists, they will not bring the desired results. Ferrara will thus have to try again on the field to attack promotion, in an Interregional B championship that promises to be even more competitive than the one that ended for the Este team a month ago in game 3 of the playoff semi-final in Fidenza. We will start again with the same ambitions as last summer, strengthened by an extra year of experience and a growth process – the one that began in January with the arrival of coach Benedetto – which we want to follow up on, and right now it is expected the signature on the renewal of the Calabrian coach who will be linked to Ferrara for another season. On the reconfirmation front, everything is done for the wingers Ballabio and Marchini, while the director Pulidori is talking with the agent of Drigo, who Benedetto would like to confirm with a role as a luxury ‘sixth man’, in a forward package that would see him move up from the young Yarbanga is also on the bench.
The names followed by Ferrara in these hours are truly top class: to complete the external package we like the profiles of Marco Laganà and Tommaso Vecchiola. The first, a point guard born in 1993, comes from a season averaging 19.3 points in B2 at Piazza Armerina, but has an important past in A2 and B and is very popular with the coach from Ferrara, who has already coached him in Reggio Calabria; the second impressed with the Sansebasket jersey and drove the blue and white defense crazy in the match of 3 December last lost 88-93 at the Bondi Arena, in which the very young winger from the Vanoli Cremona school scored 26 points. Always on the outside, but in the role of “3”, Lorenzo Turini, born in 1998, likes him, fresh from a season of 19.9 points in B2 in Cecina, a team that contested promotion in Fidenza until a few days ago. Ferrara has also tested the waters for what would be a real coup for the category: we are talking about Giulio Casagrande, a winger who has averaged double figures in Serie B for five years in important places such as Faenza, Mestre and Jesi. The boy is waiting for B1, but Ferrara has made its presence felt as well as with the center Davide Bozzetto, a veteran of A2 who has played in Chiusi in the last two seasons with important minutes, and who would represent a safe used player for B2. Samuel Sackey is also liked under the boards, an athletic big man who showed good things with the Bergamo jersey. Profiles that testify to Ferrara’s desire to build a battleship and to try the assault on the National Team again.
Jacopo Cavallini
