After the agreement with Nicola Isotta, the young playmaker who likes coach Devis Cagnardi preferred to stay in the north, Agrigento still lacks two pieces to complete the roster. President Gabriele Moncada and sports director Cristian Mayer evaluate zero-kilometer solutions. One is certainly the possible renewal with the player from Agrigento Giuseppe Cuffaro. While for the under sure the confirmation of the guard, son of art, Nicholas Elvio Mayer and Luca Bellavia. The hypothesis of signing Marco Diego Ugo Portannese seems to have vanished, at least for the moment. The 192 cm tall shooting guard from Agrigento with Swiss citizenship who played in Serie A with Siena, Montegranaro, Bologna, Cremona, who boasts summons to the senior Italian national team, is cut off from the quintet by the signing of Lorenzo Ambrosin. It is therefore difficult for Fortitudo to invest an important amount for a player who at least as an initial project would not be among the top five. Among the sure confirmations is that of Giacomo Cardelli. The assistant coach, protagonist of last season’s ride alongside coach Michele Catalani, will now be the second of Devis Cagnardi. Giacomo Cardelli’s journey in professional basketball is destined to become increasingly important therefore. Started in Montecatini eight years ago as second assistant in Serie B, the path of the former rossoblu has been full of satisfactions. Nobody, they say in Tuscany, he would have expected Giacomo to leave what was now a second home for him. But the call of Moncada, from 2014 to 2020 in the A2 series, also risking to hit the top flight in 2015; to then self-retreat to Serie B at the beginning of the season just ended for reasons of financial sustainability at the time of the pandemic, was expected for him. And here are the five of the quintet: Alessandro Grande, Lorenzo Ambrosin, the American Daeshon Francis, Albano Chiarastella (captain) and the other USA, the long versatile Kevin Marfo. Cosimo Costi and Mait Peterson will play an important role, also in terms of playing time, starting from the bench. The date of the meeting should be set for 18 August next then off to the preparation. The preseason will immediately give way to the LNP Old Wild West 2022 Serie A2 Super Cup. The dates of the qualifying phase are Sunday 11, Wednesday 14, Sunday 18 September. Quarter-finals: Wednesday 21 September. First day: Trapani-Fortitudo Agrigento basketball. Second day: Stella Azzurra Rome-Trapani Basketball. Third day: Fortitudo Agrigento-Stella Azzurra Rome.
