146 days after that May 22 that saw the triumph of the Briantea84 at the end of a spectacular championship final on Amicacci Abruzzo, the top wheelchair basketball championship restarts on Saturday 15 October with the first day of the regular season.
Serie A 2022/2023 will consist of twelve teamsdivided into two groups of six, composed taking into account the ranking of the last season (with the exception of the two newly promoted HS Varese e Young and Tenaciouswhose group they belonged to was drawn on 11 July last).
They will qualify for the quarter-finals the first four classified of each group, who will meet in home and away matches (scheduled for 11 and 18 February) to determine the four Scudetto semi-finalists.
The semifinals (starting February 25) will be played with the formula of the series at the best of three games. Final Scudetto scheduled from April 15 (always best of three games). The fifth and sixth qualifiers in the regular season round will instead be involved in the playout to avoid relegation: there will be two teams that will go down to Serie B.
The match of group A between opens the opening day at 15.30 SBS Montello e GSD Porto Torres: both teams present themselves with few innovations compared to last season: the Bergamo players, returning from ninth place in the last championship, restart with the confirmed Ilario Narra on the bench, while in Sardinia a coach with great experience and palmares like Malik Abes.
Also at 15.30 in the field the other Sardinian, the Dinamo Lab Banco di Sardegnaperhaps the most transformed team and about which there is more curiosity, after the arrivals of the Argentines Adolfo Damian Berdun e Carlos Estecheof the Dutch Robin Poggenwish and the two Swedes Sjostrom e Lindblom (old acquaintance of our league, formerly Varese and Cantù). Dinamo will open their group A by hosting the second classified in the last Serie A, the Deco Metalferro Friends Abruzzo by coach Carlo Di Giusto who, after greeting Berdun himself, strengthened with the Israeli trio stink, Barbibay and especially Vigoda (best Israeli Under 22 player, bronze in the last European Championships), in addition to the inclusion of the Canadian 1 points Melanie Jane Hawtin.
The match between the S. Stefano Kos Group by Roberto Ceriscioli and the newly promoted Uncle Elevatori HS Varese: the Marches, waiting for the captain to return to the field Enrico Ghionewhose disqualification will end on December 15, have added the American to the roster Tommie Lee Graythe blue Alessandro Boccaccithe Spanish points 4.5 Isaleb Lopez Chavez and the eternal Fabio Rimondi; Varese returns to Serie A after the years of purgatory in the cadet series with a team supported by the arrivals of Michele Fabris ed Elisabetta Bisegna.
In Group B we start at 16 with the debut of the Italian champions of UnipolSai Briantea84 Cantù on the field of Pellicanò Pharmacy Reggio Calabria: the canturini return to the starting line of the new Serie A with a new face on the bench, coach Josef Jaglowski, fresh from a successful season on the bench of the French team of Red Dragons Metz; to the heavy farewells of Sagar, Papi e Said they cope with the equally heavy confirmations of Carossino e De Maggiin addition to the return of Array and the insertion of Dutch points 1.5 Anil Çeǧil. Curiosity also to discover the new Reggio Calabria Bic, as usual very active on the international market (Zakarya Salmi from Algeria, Željko Likić from Serbia, Kwanchai Pimkorn from Thailand, Erik Siaurusaitis from Lithuania).
At 17 the Self Group Millennium Basket of Padua will open its championship on the home court against Menarini Volpi Rosse Florence: both teams come from a more than positive season and present themselves at the start of the new championship with the confirmation of their respective technical staff, Fabio Castellucci in Padua and Marco Bergnawho took over from the current championship, in Tuscany.
Also at 5 pm finally the PDM Treviso will host the absolute debut in the top flight of Young and Tenacious Itop: the Venetians, who aim to repeat the excellent last championship, will be able to count on the inclusion of the Australian couple Hannah Dodd e Steven Elliottwhile the Romans, led on the bench by the former Azzurri Stefano Rossetti, rely on a roster mix of experience and new recruits.
on the cover La Briantea84 champion of Italy 2021/2022 Photocredits: FIPIC Communication Office
