Guido Bagatta at L’Ultima Contesa: «Varese, a wonderfully built team. Sports fraud? Nobody cheated» – Varesenoi.it

With the magical atmosphere of the Lino Oldrini on Sunday, she returned to the pages of our newspaper The Last Contestthe home-grown basketball talk show by VareseNoi.

Of the match won against Get smartwhich decreed the mathematical salvation of Openjobmetisthe penalty and much more, we spoke with the presenter and commentator Guido Bagatta, well-known face of Italian basketball. Another guest is the journalist from Varese Antonio Franzi.

Here are some of the statements by Guido Bagatta:

«This year on Discovery we did Trieste, Scafati, Naples, Verona, Reggio Emilia several times… they were teams that had little to do with the level of Varese. Which was very well done from the start and proved to have been built in a wonderful way, making it beyond all expectations».

On the Tepic case: «I don’t like abacus sentences. Basically there was a rather childish mistake, Varese has her faults, but the penalty is not parameterized to the faults. It’s not about sports fraud, no one cheated, it’s a disproportionate penalty. Things went well because it would have been a total drama to resort to CONI and the TAR and stop the championship for something like this. Even the fact that two crystalline people like Scola and Vittorelli have to carry the label of fraudsters is not good».

«I would have expected a note of closeness from the big players, I know that Tortona and Venice have spoken with Scola and also that there has been physical closeness on the part of some teams. The way I am, if I had been the president of any team I would have sided a little more».

«Italian basketball like LegaBasket comes out clean. Let’s say the Federation could have done something more, I would have behaved differently. A few more signals had to come from the federation».

On the Serie A MVP: «My two choices would be Ross and Christon, if they play it against each other. Dowe has now exploded, Bartley and Logan play in teams that must not relegate, Davies was out of rotation for part of the season, Belinelli was the man of controversy until January. Between Ross and Christon is a good fight».

On his experience with the Roosters at the McDonald’s Open in 1999, when he took the field for a few seconds against the San Antonio Spurs: «I was with Poz in Riccione, and we went to Pesaro to see the youth final. In the stands I asked him “What do you say if we made this proposal to Bulgheroni?”, and he said “I’ll call Toto and ask him”. And so this story began. I did a week of retreat, it was the best moment of my life. I played an NBA game thanks to Varese, and I’m the only “civilian” in the world to have done so».

Below is the video of the full episode.