The doctor from Pavia heads the health staff of coach Orlando’s women’s national team who won the substitute tournament of the European championships
PAVIA. Luigi D’Introno returned to Pavia with the most important medal, the gold one, from the international tournament in Sofia. D’introno, 58, was the medical director of the under 20 women’s national team coached by Sandro Orlando who won the substitute event of the European championship.
«I am very satisfied – says D’Introno – in the last seven years I have won five medals, two gold, two silver and one bronze. A palmarès of which I am proud. The last gold medal is a bit atypical, because due to Covid it was decided not to compete in the youth Europeans, so the international Federbasket created three challengers in three different locations by mixing the A and B national teams. merit must be said that we have won all five games, including the last against Germany, although it was not needed to assign the title and we were missing Sara Ronchi, who was injured in the front crusader ».
The women’s Italbasket beat Belgium, Croatia, Bulgaria, Latvia and Germany. Federbasket has reserved two floors of a beautiful hotel in the center of the Bulgarian capital for the participating national teams. «It was an exciting tournament – explains D’Introno – we have shown that the victory at the Europeans two years ago was not accidental, but the result of careful work. The group has amalgamated day after day, always believing in victory, even with Germany, a challenge won 50 – 49, which was resolved in the last 90 seconds, starting from 42 – 49 for the Germans who have always been ahead. In those final seconds, everything happened, from wrong free throws to lost balls in series. Problems? The management of Covid, because both in the rally and during the tournament they were armored in a bubble where every three days two girls drawn at random had to be subjected to a swab. In addition to the Covid part, managed together with the federal representative, I dealt with nutrition and obviously the medical part “.
Luigi D’Introno also for next season will be the team doctor of the Pf Broni of A1 women. «I have been collaborating directly or indirectly with the most important provincial women’s basketball club for almost twenty years. Continuously for 7 years “. –