PRESS RELEASE Apu Udine
November 28, 2024
Following the news published by the local newspaper on 22 November, regarding the failure to pay the salaries for the month of October to the athletes of the Libertas Basket School, Amici Pallacanestro Udinese wishes to confirm that it has always complied with all its commitments set out in the contract which regulates the temporary association of purpose, which led to the development of the WomenAPU project. In relation to this, the economic commitment envisaged by the terms of the agreement was not only respected, but significantly increased, in order to pursue the development of women’s basketball in the best possible way, guaranteeing the movement excellent results at a national level.
Financial fair play has always characterized the management of Amici Pallacanestro Udinese, guaranteeing all stakeholders involved compliance with contracts and the regular payment of what was agreed, aware that it is the main path to take to ensure the entire movement has a solid future and sustainable.
We trust that Libertas Basket School will be able to resolve its financial tensions quickly, confident that its President De Biase will be able to find, as has already happened in the past, the resources to fulfill his commitments and guarantee the continuation of the sporting project of which he is responsible. boss>.
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Sooner or later the knots come home to roost. At the end of the 2013-2014 season of the women’s A2 series Libertas Sporting Club Udinefounded in 1980, closed its doors despite finishing third in group A of the North-East Conference and seventh in group A of the Promotion poule. She took over Libertas Basket School Udinefounded in 2013, heir to President Alessandro Grassi’s Sporting through the sporting director of his last managements Leonardo de Biase. Third in group B of A3 and fourth in group B of the second phase, Lbs was admitted to B as play-off finalists as part of a championship reform that led them to win the play-offs in the following season, 2015-2016. off national B teams and to be promoted to A2F.
Now let’s get back to the bomb, after the so-called project was born in the summer of 2021 Women Apu Udine thanks to the Ats (temporary purpose association) with the men’s club, increasingly raising the level of its participation in the A2. Last season they won the Italian Cup and lost the final promotion to A1F with Alpo Villafranca of Verona. Already in the summer there were signs that the old Lbs management was no longer able to support the costs of the category made at the highest level, a common problem in any case. In fact, at least half a dozen companies are said to be struggling in A2. To attest to the crisis of the women’s basketball movement there is also an A1 match upstairs with only 11 teams, due to the simultaneous withdrawal of three clubs including the women’s branch of Virtus Bologna and, in addition to the meteor Oxygen Roma, also Virtus Eirene Ragusa repositioned in A2 in group B of the Lbs with a penalty of 3 points in the standings due to administrative irregularities precisely in the repositioning.
Right at Ragusa last Sunday coach Massimo Riga’s girls got back on track, after losing the unbeaten match against Mantova at Carnera, regaining the top spot in the next round thanks to the stoppage imposed on the Virgilians by Futurosa in Trieste. Precisely between these two challenges at the top, what is said to have already happened at the end of last season was repeated, that is, that the team captained by Chiara Bacchini returned to cash in on president de Biase. Today’s statement from the APU exposes the truth of one of the two parts of the ATS in which they joined forces three years ago. It is strange to note that while as regards the youth teams, from Under 13 to U19 up to the C series, an agreement was found for registration in the championships as Apu, instead the A2F continues to be registered as Lbs. Evidently the temporary association of purpose in this sector has not yet found an adjustment. Who knows why.
