The important thing, as coach Claudio Carofiglio says, is to see the scoreboard lit and the seconds running on the clock: tomorrow, after fourteen months, the Under 18 team will be back on the pitch for a match in the championship of Excellence. There will be many new things when, at 8 pm, the duo ball will be raised at the Forum with 5 Pari Torino as an opponent: the name of the team, for example, which is Biella Next, the coach who took the place of Luca Baroni , on the bench when on February 10 a year ago the players in the Rossoblu lost in Milan against Olimpia. On the pitch that evening there were Carlo Pietra, Gabriele Aimone and Luca Loro. There will also be tomorrow, a sign of continuity between a season interrupted by the pandemic and a recovery with difficulty and with a completely different formula. To limit the range of away matches, the teams will stay within the regional borders whenever possible, divided into two mini-circles. The one in Biella includes, in addition to 5 Pari, Oleggio, College Borgomanero and Don Bosco Crocetta. Once the Piedmontese title has been awarded, it will be seen if there is room for reaching a national stage and a Scudetto, despite the important defections such as those announced by the two Bolognese Virtus and Fortitudo. In order to play and give the boys a few hours in the gym, however, Biella Next has invested a lot, starting with the tampon campaign for all members.
Among the rookies in the rossoblù of tomorrow, there are also Luca Vincini and Niccolò Moretti, full members of the first team but still in their youthful age. It will also be the first time for Alessandro Solari, the boy who arrived from Liguria after an application arrived via email thanks to his father. Scrolling through the names of the rose, a surname stands out, Blair: Jaeson is the youngest son of Joseph ready to follow in the footsteps of his father and brother.