TORTONA
Coach Marco Ramondino doubles. After a high-level 2020/21, made unforgettable by the promotion to A1 in the final against Turin, the Campania coach has signed a two-year contract renewal to lead the team in the top flight.
I express my thanks and gratitude to all the members of our club, from the ownership to the board members, for this further opportunity to be part of an important project and to contribute, as in the last three seasons, to the company’s growth path on and off the pitch. . Furthermore, I am happy to be able to help Derthona take the right steps in this new extremely stimulating and competitive reality, the A1 series, in which we are facing ».
In addition to the coach, Jamarr Sanders and Luca Severini have also been confirmed. The company focuses on the backbone of the group that made the triumphal ride in A2 possible. In fact, Mascolo, Tavernelli, Severini, Sanders and Cannon were confirmed, while with Macura, Wright’s partner last season at Afyon Belediye, the signing campaign that had already registered the entries of Tyler Cain and Ariel Filloy from Pesaro ended, Wright, Cattapan from Brindisi, Daum from Obradoiro in Spain and Mobio from Udine.
Sanders on his social profile greeted the new adventure with enthusiasm. «I am happy to stay in Tortona – the outside thought – in the last year and a half it has become my home. I am excited about this new adventure with this club, with the coaching staff, my teammates and the fans. Come on Leoni! ». For both Severini and Sanders it is a return to A1: the former was part of the Treviso roster in 2019-2020, Sanders played it in Trento and Trieste. The American was instrumental in winning the championship. His the decisive basket at the end of game 5 of the quarterfinals with Ravenna, his the ball recovered in the final seconds of game 4 with Rome, earned him the qualification for the final, his free throws that decreed the promotion to A1 in game 5. –