At the age of 101, grandma Regina doesn’t miss one at Carnera and from the stands she cheers on the APU: “Guys, take us to A1”

Ms. Fasano was born in 1922 when basketball was only 30 years old. Cheering and thrilling endings do not scare her and Udinese is also in her heart

UDINE. After the age of 90, her passion for basketball sprang up, if there is a sport for young people it is that, and since that day she has become a regular at the games of the Apu Old ild West, after having paved the way for sports in the third good Friulian age with frequent appearances at the Friuli stadium for her beloved Udinese.

If there is a heroine of heroines in game 1 of the final for the Serie A1 this is Mrs. Regina Fasano, 101 years old. Just think, she was born on December 22, 1922, a couple of months after the march on Rome and, for our history, exactly thirty years after the invention of basketball. Yes, the story of Professor James Naismith inventing a game with two baskets of peaches and a ball in Springfield is strange.

Well, in thirty years the new game was just making its way into the United States. Now? Well, the super eager is not afraid of the diabolical trumpets provided by the APU to its fans, she is not afraid of heartbeats for a throbbing play-off series. She has fun. «You don’t ask me who is my favorite player because I tell you that I like them all. Of the APU, but also of Udinese, for which I cheered as a child ».

It goes without saying what the “grandmother” Queen wishes to Boniciolli’s team: «I hope she wins the championship, she deserves it very well. We hope well”.

The other evening the speaker Federico Bigotto, always attentive to these “excellences” of Juventus supporters, acclaimed her at Carnera. Ovation, even if it were not one of the two photon baskets Lacey shoved the game with.

But that’s not the end of it, because his 74-year-old son Sandro Disnan, a former banker in Friuli, starts with the anecdote. Tasty. «For Udinese matches it is impossible to get tickets from my mother online, Vivaticket allows the purchase of tickets only for fans under 99 years old. So also for the APU I have to go in person to make them. But let’s not miss a match ».

Sandro goes to pick up his mother, from Udine in the Viale Palmanova area, who enthusiastically gets into the car and reaches the building. “We are in the silver stands, there are some slightly problematic steps to overcome but the fans around us give us a hand,” he explains.

And the magic continues. As well as every sacrosanct morning the reading of the Messaggero Veneto, its newspaper, sports news in the head. “My mom began to be passionate about basketball and APU when the team moved to Cividale for a season – she continues – then she made her debut at Carnera”.

The relationship with Udinese? Heavy, two seasonal appearances at Udinese Calcio matches, the cold in winter is best avoided. Grandma Regina’s roadmap: victory at the end of August at home with Venezia and return under the arch of the Rizzi on Easter Eve to watch the goleada against Empoli.