Don’t call them bronze faces but they put the right cheekiness. The blue of coach Capobianco redeeming the only point cost the semifinal with Belgium to Italy of women’s basketball, defeated Olympic silver France in Paris, on the parquet of the Pyrean, in the final for the third place of the European 2025.
It is one of those things that happen once every thirty years rarely opius, The last time, at the time of the silver of the European Brno 1995, Catarina Pollini was on the field and Cecilia Zandalasini was nine months old. Much of this European bronze has gone through its golden hands, 20 points only in the final, as for its golden hands with three decades, everything that glitters in the Italian women’s basketball passes: started at basketball, girl, from dad and older brother, to Broni in Oltrepò Pavese, made her greater age of age from scientific high school, but whoever taught us remember that she did the school. Filo, although playing for years, for years he made 140 kilometers a day between Broni and Sesto San Giovanni: there was an idea of seriousness that marked a career, which saw his highest point in the Wnba title, the Professional Women’s Basketball League of North America, with Minnesota Lynx in 2017 and then again Commileer’s Cup in 2024. First they had been three badges with Schio and in the best. European basketball with Fenerbahçe in Türkiye.
Italy’s journey to European 2025, during which Zandalasini celebrated 1000 points in the national team. It was long and difficult against prediction: a Russian mountain of comebacks, courage, will, enthusiasm. Many times Cecilia Zandalasini has explained over the years to the top of the USA, the effort to bring attention to our parts on women’s basketball in our partin Italy with very little visibility, where overseas, despite different figures in the wallet, it is not another sport, as is sometimes perceived here, but the other half of the basketball sky.
Once again it is the girls who bring an Italian team to the top of international competitions: a few days ago it was up to the blue under 20 blue to conquer world qualification, the Italy of the women’s baket came with the entrance between the first four European ones, the girls of Velasco are playing after the Olympic triumph of 2024 an excellent Volleyball Nations League, but there the view is at least on the same time. “Volleyball in Italy is girls’ football”, undermines women do not need to take space for arrogance, as they still have to do under basket. At Pireo they succeeded.
It could have been very difficult to recover from the disappointment of the semifinal already almost won and then lost by means of a basket, could win the regret and instead coach Andrea Capobianco and his fantastic girls, with a great team work, were very ready to put his head and the will between the lines of the field and take the medal they wanted, Bringing her to dedication to their partner Matilde Villa, outside for a broken crusader, and to Achille Polonara, blue of the male, who is facing a more difficult game than those on the field.
And now nobody says more than basketball is not a girl game, it’s an old story that no longer applies.
