SARONNO – Piero Bonetti at the helm of the Itsure Falcons in Ulm: former president and protagonist of the relaunch of the Inox Team Saronno (softball A1 series) arrived in the Cup Winners’ Cup and touching the Scudetto, Bonetti – 68 years old – for this reason 2022 has returned to his usual passion, that for baseball. With a new adventure: he has accepted the proposal to lead as a coach the German team engaged in the highest category, the Bundesliga.
“Baseball has always been my life – remarked Bonetti – and after the splendid interlude in softball, I have been in Ulm for a few weeks now, at the helm of a young team that has a great desire to emerge”. Former player in Bollate and in Romeand then coach of Silvio Berlusconi’s Mediolanum Milano and with commercial director Fabio Capello, Bonetti is a veteran of “beat and run”. And for the first time he is in Germany: “It all started because of my friendship with the pitcher from Ulm, the Italian-Swiss Andrea Girasole, who called me and asked for my availability. In the team we are not the only Italians; there are also Samuele De Simone from Pescara and Luigi Cinardi, Swiss-Romagna ”. The season has started these days, it will go on until August 31st with the regular season. But where will the Falcons of President Thorben Rasche, 26, and Deputy Thomas Geiger, also a player, go? “I can say that I have found a great environment and I am convinced that we will take away some satisfactions” assures Bonetti.
(photo: Piero Bonetti at the helm of the Ulm Falcons)
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