Handball: an extraordinary sporting miracle “branded” Albatro Siracusa – Photo 1 of 12

Sicilian handball will still have two teams in Serie A1 next year. After the Erice girls who played in the Scudetto playoffs, there was the extraordinary sporting “miracle” of the boys of theAlbatro Siracusa, the seven coached by Peppe Vinci who after the first round seemed destined to relegate and instead in the end he saved himself with one turn in advance, closing with a historic tenth place.

Peppe Vinci – with a 10th place that had never been reached in a Serie A1 championship with 15 teams. Now a cycle started four years ago in Serie B has ended and we are already thinking about the future with the club that is already working to compete in an A1 championship that Albatro has won with his teeth. We close in 10th place and fifth in the second round standings and when everyone gave us up for dead we played a second part of the tournament at a high level. Now we continue to work on young people to further mature our group ».

“Who will go away – continues Vinci who, before the last match at PalaCorso against Merano, received the Bronze Palm from the Coni delegate of Syracuse Liddo Schiavo, while the president Vito Laudani received the Coni Bronze Star for the club national team – we wish the best of luck and to those who remain to continue the path of growth together. This was the most beautiful Albatro of all time: fantastic group and players ».

This was the right ending for us. We deserved it. We chased him throughout the second round. Today the boys were fantastic, they took the field because they wanted to close any conversation and win this salvation.

Vito Laudani, president of Albatro – this is an important result for our company which remains in the elite of Italian handball>.

A great result that bears the signature of an extraordinary group in the lead the captain Gianluca Vinci and with him the many Syracusans in the team; the two bombers Tomas Canete e Juan Pablo Canete in the “top ten” of scorers with 171 and 170 goals and all those that Peppe Vinci has sent on the field throughout the championship.

THE PROTAGONISTS. Here is the Albatro squad who conquered this extraordinary 10th place in the men’s A1.

Goalkeepers: Javier Grande, Gabriele Nobile, Lorenzo Rubino, Gianmarco Fontana. But: Francesco Burgio, Nicolò Argentino, Alessandro Bandiera, Giuseppe Cuzzupè, Gianluca Vinci, Gabriele Sortino, Martin Molineri. Full Backs: Federico Vanoli, Marko Bobicic, Matteo Mizzi, Juan Pablo Cuello, Alex Castillo. Central: Max Murga, Tomas Canete, Nicolò Fontana. Pivot: Alessio Lo Bello, Zoe Mizzoni.