Happy birthday to the boxers Ap Pavia celebrates and receives the Coni silver star

Pavia

Seventy years and a future ahead. AP Pavia celebrated an important birthday last year, but the pandemic forced the leaders of the oldest boxing club in the province to postpone the celebrations.

a provincial party

The company from Pavia wanted to bring together the closest collaborators, friends, the boxers of yesterday and the day before yesterday, around a table in Borgo Ticino at the Osteria del Previ, to remember that it has its roots in the city since the last century. Not only that, the twentieth year of the presidency of Niutta was also celebrated, who wanted next to him his son Nicola, president of the City Council, the councilor for sport Pietro Trivi and the president of the provincial Coni Luciano Cremonesi, who presented the Star Silver of the National Coni for the sporting merit to the company. «Boxing has always been in my DNA – Cremonesi smiles – in the golden years of boxing there were many champions I remember, from Giordano Campari, Annibale Omodei to Giovanni Biancardi».

emotion and emotion

There were moments of emotion, the reception of the Star even softened a cold like Niutta, as well as of course the sporting director Giancarlo Mezzadra, who was moved when the president of Boxe Voghera Franco Ceniccola gave him a plaque for his commitment in boxing . And a surprise was also created by Mezzadra who presented a gold medal to Niutta. «He gave it to me for my 55 years at Pugilistica Pavia – said Mezzadra – I, on behalf of the whole gym, wanted to give it to him. Ceniccola gave me a nice surprise. I have the PA Pavia in my heart, I grew up and grew old with this club, which I wanted to carry on even in the most difficult moments ».

double birthday

Niutta underlined: «We remembered with emotion all those who are no longer there. It is the sign of a party that began 70 years ago and which still has a future of great presence in the sports world of Pavia and Italy. We also celebrated the birthday of Giancarlo Mezzadra, who was born like a predestined when the AP Pavia was born. We concluded with the promise of Councilor Trivi to be by our side when we set up the boxing meeting to celebrate our 70 years ».

The president of the Italian Federpugilato, Flavio D’Ambrosi, wanted to congratulate the company through the telephone of Professor Mario Sturla. –

maurizio scorbati