“The European problem between Olympia and Virtus has a particular taste”

As soon as once more, week after week, the concerns of Sandro Gamba within the pages of the Milan version of La Repubblica.

Earlier than you consider the current, you’ll give me a have a look at the previous. To a different piece of the household that has gone, Giandomenico Ongaro, who died the opposite night time. He was a bit youthful than me, he performed on the wing for Simmenthal, a superb athlete, a superb defender, a discreet attacker: not harmful however when the chance offered itself he knew how you can reap the benefits of it. He was a kind of workforce males that whenever you put them on they won’t increase a roar of admiration, however you at all times knew what they may offer you, they usually actually did.

What he was like: in follow, in video games and in life, meticulous sufficient to review and turn out to be a superb mechanical engineer, a occupation that introduced him to america for twenty years after the basketball that had been considerably his cradle, he noticed that his father was the custodian of the sports activities corridor of the Truthful, in Plaça VI February. He had fashionable origins and was an excellent boy, very well mannered, we now have at all times been associates. He was at all times there when Olimpia organized a ceremony or a memorial. And I’ll miss it.

Now I consider Ongaro’s spirit after I mentally evaluation the match I noticed on the Discussion board in opposition to Actual Madrid. I thought of his effort, his at all times being within the recreation and I in contrast him to this Armani who remains to be combating within the Euroleague. It loses paint alongside the way in which, it flattens out: it nonetheless lacks the change of tempo, it might’t give the precise acceleration, that dash of vitality that makes you seize the enemy beneath the arm, and it additionally struggles when the engine has to go along with the low of the revolutions.

All this makes Olimpia lose continuity, and it definitely doesn’t rely upon the standard of their gamers, not to mention the talents of Ettore Messina. He lacks one thing to reap the benefits of the physicality and intelligence at his disposal. I do not know if the spark will come from the European derby in opposition to Sergio Scariolo’s Virtus however I’m very curious and impatient to review the sport from the sidelines.

The challenges between the Italians within the cup have at all times had, since I used to be second to Cesare Rubini, a particular taste and totally different from the league video games, even on the poster. As a result of in Europe you even have the accountability to signify Italian excellence, maybe with much less time to arrange for the match in the course of the week, and in the long run the depth is totally different, greater, extra electrical. Milan begins from the slight benefit of the behavior of double dedication earlier than the excellence of basketball. Be capable of exploit it.