He has been in the youth national baseball team since 2017 and now, instead of leaving, Simona Conti doubles up. In the sense that in addition to her beloved under 12s, the forty-year-old Rimini coach will also have to take care of the under 15 blue selection. And the role will be the same, always ‘bench coach‘, which translated, to say it with Simona, means “… right arm of the manager, but in my case I would say left arm, since …
He has been in the youth national baseball team since 2017 and now, instead of leaving, Simona Conti doubles up. In the sense that in addition to her beloved under 12s, the forty-year-old Rimini coach will also have to take care of the under 15 blue selection. And the role will be the same, always ‘bench coach’, which translated, to say it with Simona, means “… right arm of the manager, but in my case I would say left arm, since I’m left-handed. ” Between rallies and championships, another season full of commitments is expected for Conti, just as Italy has strong traditions in youth ‘beat and run’, so much so that the continental titles won by Simona are four and the streak is open . “The under 15 team will have no international commitments and this will allow us to work more calmly, while the under 12s will play the Europeans in Austria at the beginning of July and a month later we will be in Taiwan for the World Cup”, says Simona, who after playing softball (“I was a first base-winger who, if necessary, could throw”), in 2004 he began to coach in the Falcons Torre Pedrera, a company that still involves him today. And with the ‘falchetti’ he took more than one satisfaction, so much so that he captured three consecutive league titles, from 2014 to 2016, always with the under 12 category.
Here her role was that of manager, that is, she was the one who made all kinds of decisions, who studied (and applied) strategies, who chose the ‘nine’ to drop in the diamond, who determined the rotation of the pitchers. “In 2004 a hole had been created in the technical sector of the Falcons and so I was immediately catapulted into the fray – he remembers -. I came from my studies in Agriculture, I was oriented in other directions, I never thought that baseball would become my life. instead … “, reflects Conti, who is now in the Falcons, a club that will field eight or even nine youth teams in the spring, has the role of technical coordinator. “Yes, let’s start to stay a little tight on the Rivabella diamond”, comments Simona, who in the morning, just to fill her day a little, teaches physical education to elementary school children in circle number 6.
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