After the first day of the championship played on Saturday 15 October, and after the stop dedicated to Martin Mancini Youth Super Cup (won by Briantea 84 over the Young and Tenacious 50 to 49), the Serie A wheelchair basketball is back on the field, for the second round of the regular season, which starts a sprint that will end on Saturday 19 November, the day of the last day of the first round, when the rankings of the two groups will decide the four finalists of the next Final Four of the Italian Cup.
The day’s program opens with Group A, where three heartfelt derbies will be staged: at 3 pm in Sardinia the clash between the hosts of the GSD Porto Torresdefeated by the first away match of the season against Bergamo, and the new ambitious Dinamo Lab Banco di Sardegnawho instead made his debut in the best way by beating the Italian vice champions of thefriends.
At 4 pm right there Deco Metalferro Friends Abruzzo will return to the home parquet for the traditional derby with the S. Stefano Kos Group, revenge of the great challenge that ignited last regular season. At 4.30 pm, finally, the all-Lombard intersection between SBS Montello and the newly promoted HS Varese Uncle Elevatorin search of the first statement.
In Group B, at 5 pm the PDM Trevisoprotagonist of a convincing debut against the Young and Tenacious in the first day, will host the Menarini Volpi Rosse of Florence, who, on the other hand, did not collect points on his debut against Padua. Both in the evening, at 20.30, the other two matches of the group: the Pellicanò Pharmacy Reggio Calabria Bic hosting the Self Group Millennium Basket and the reigning Italian champions of the UnipolSai Insurance Briantea84 Cantùwho made their debut at the PalaMeda against the Young and Tenacious Itop of Rome.
On all the courts, before the duo ball, the Italian Wheelchair Basketball Federation ordered a minute of silence to honor the memory of the president Alfredo Marsonright on the day of his return on the parquet of his Briantea84 home.
Starting from this round of the championship, the Live Stats service returns, available on the website www.federipic.it, to follow the play by play of all the matches live. The live streaming of the matches by the home clubs will also be published on the Fipic social networks.
Finally, during the month of November, the new collaboration between Fipic and Fip will start, with the live broadcast on the Italbasket Twitch channel of one match per week from the wheelchair basketball championship.
FIPIC Communication Office on the cover Galliano Marchionni (Amicacci) against S. Stefano last season
