Sometimes they come back! It is appropriate to say it for Gianmarco Conte. The link with Taranto and the CJ Basket so as not to wear the rossoblu tank top again at the first useful opportunity. And it is for this reason that the company of the president Cosenza is pleased to officially announce his return and re-embrace the product of his nursery, Virtus Taranto school, who with the orange tank top, made the whole process of the youth teams buying up titles and finals also national ones up to the debut in the rossoblu first team.
Gianmarco Conte will be available to coach Olive as early as tomorrow, Sunday 23 January, when the second round of the Serie B Old Wild West 2021/22, group D.
Gianmarco Conte is a guard-wing born on April 24, 1997 in Taranto, 191 cm by 87 kg. As mentioned, he began to dribble with Virtus Taranto, completing the entire youth process with great successes, both locally and nationally in that great brood that marked a new generation for Tarantine basketball.
At the same time, Gianmarco made his debut in the first team with Cus Jonico Basket Taranto, who played in Serie B in those years, increasing his minutes on the scoresheet each season. In 2017 Conte leaves Taranto and always plays in Serie B for a 6.6 point season with an average of 23 ‘per game at Costa Volpino.
So two vintages at Tramarossa Vicenza still with good averages, 6.2 points in 17 minutes on average in the first year, 6.7 in 22 minutes in the second. Last year he played instead in Senigallia, still in Serie B with 8.7 points per game in 24 minutes. While the beginning of this season he played in Pavia in the Riso Scotti in group A.
But with Taranto and CJ Basket in particular, Conte’s bond has always been very close. Last summer Gianmarco began training with the team of coach Olive, also competing in the Super Cup. Ironically in the playoffs he crossed his shoes against Stanic and his teammates, in the first round, giving a hard time and dragging Senigallia with 13.7 points in an average of 35 ‘per game, surrendering with the honor of arms in game 4 after having violated Palafiom in race2.
Thanks to the relentless work of the CJ Taranto sports director, Vito Appeso and with the availability given by the player’s agent, Massimo Minto, which the rossobolu company thanks as well as the Pavia company in the person of the president Emanuele Caserio, it was possible to bring Conte home.
“After so many good experiences away from Taranto, it was time to go home!“. These are the first words again in rossoblu di Gianmarco Conte.
“A few weeks ago I decided to look around and look for some projects where I could have more space, the opportunity arose to return to play in Taranto and I decided to take it on the fly. From what I have been able to see and read, I think this team has shown that they can be very competitive and have ambition”.
Photocredits: Aurelio Castellaneta
