Nicola Ceriana will act as a connecting element between the club and the team «Last year I composed the anthem. I’d like to sing it before the games “
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Basketball, a family business. Forty years ago Marco Ceriana, a well-known dentist from Pavia, joined the Basket Pool, covering a managerial role for about ten years, up to the A1 series. The son Nicola joined this year. “A passion that we have passed down – smiles the fifty-year-old singer-songwriter – last year I approached the company and last month I became part of the managers, under the pressure of a great friend like Alberto Rai, even if I have also known Lele for years. Caserio. I won’t have a specific role for now, I want to help out ».
And so forty years after Marco, now it’s up to Nicola. “My task will be to be present at training, as I should act as a trait d’union between the team and the club and verify that things go the right way – continues Ceriana – at home then I will always be at the matches, in transfer depends on the time I have available. It is the first time that I have held a managerial role in a basketball club, even if I played up to 36 years, then a knee injury ended my presence on the fields, which perhaps had lasted too long, since I started in the minibasket and I finished after about thirty years ».
If you go back to normal, the first thing Nicola wants to do is accompany his father Marco to the Palaravizza to review a basketball game after thirty years. “I’m sure he’ll be happy to see Barbara Bandiera again – smiles the new Omnia executive – he lived the best years of basketball in Pavia and returning to via Treves would be a dip in nostalgia and in the memories of years that coincided with the double promotion from the series. B to A2 and then to A1 ».
Nicola Ceriana last year composed the Omnia anthem. “If the sports hall had been open to the public I would have sung it before a match – explains Nicola – if this year there will be, as we hope, the return of the fans to PalaRavizza, as in the NBA matches I will sing the anthem before the ball. two. It would also be exciting for me because after two years of pandemic it would be the best way to bring the public closer ».
Meanwhile Nicola on Friday launches the video on Youtbe and on all platforms his latest piece he wrote, “Pagliaccio”. «We shot the video in the tent of the Piccolo Circo dei Sogni – concludes Ceriana – it is a single to which I am very attached because I have always loved writing a piece on the clown, which I have always loved for its melancholy and romantic aspect. I present it on July 30th at the Carmine ». –