The adventure of the U17 national team of baseball5 involved in the European championship in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, will start from 15 November.
There will be 14 national teams in this European competition, with matches scheduled from 16 to 19 November, to be defined at the moment, groups and calendars of the continental tournament which will see, in addition to the Italian national team led by Maurizio Balla, the following national representatives Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Rep. , France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Holland, Romania, Turkey.
Among those called up the Neptunese Filippo Sabatini of the Lions Nettuno, included in the list of eight players (4 males and 4 females) who will wear the blue jersey.
Surely a season to be framed for the young Filippo Sabatini class 2007, protagonist, in the senior category in the SerieB championship with the Lions Nettuno jersey (IP 30 ERA 2.10 3 W 0 L 39 SO), winner of the Tournament of Regions the Lazio Selection and then protagonist always with the same team in the final four of the prestigious Little League held in the USA.
These are the players called Jacopo Cavedon (Rimini 86 Baseball Club), Beatrice Deregibus (Aosta Bugs), Alessandro Micheli (Baseball Club Pesaro), Giulia Moretto (White Tigers AFB & S. Team / Nuove Pantere Lucca), Chiara Pecorelli (Acli Rivello), Arianna Ponzi (Youth Collecchio Soft), Filippo Sabatini (Lion’s Baseball Nettuno), Riccardo Sana (Aosta Bugs).
These are the reserves at home: Cristian Agresta (Rho Baseball) Matteo Ariaudo (Bas. Skatch Softball Club), Giada Cardani (Porta Mortara Bas. Soft. Novara), Alessandra Marmo (Youth Collecchio Soft),
Technical staff Maurizio Balla manager; Paolo Vannini coach. Team manager Isabella Dalbesio.
These are the words released by the manager of the Italian U17 baseball team5 Maurizio Balla who has made official the list of eight players who will wear the blue jersey at the European Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 16 to 19 November, released on the fibs.it website. it was quite a difficult choice – Maurizio Balla admits – especially for the males, who had a very equal level. In the end we chose our guys for the type of game and for the positions on the pitch. For the girls, we also looked at their performance at serve ».
https://www.wbsceurope.org/en/events/2022-u-17-baseball5-european-championship/home
Here the link of our interview with the blue manager Maurizio Balla in August https://www.baseballmania.eu/notizie/primopiano/il-manager-della-nazionale-baseball-5-verso-gli-europei-di-sofia /
Cover photo of the Colorno rally
