His name was Giovanni Spedaletti Trabalza and was born in Torgiano on 6 October 2006: a tragic car accident cut short his young life. John on Saturday 9 November afternoon he was returning home after refereeing the match between Ponte Vecchio Basketball and Virtus Assisi (Under 15 men’s Gold). John also had played basketball from 2019 to 2023 with the Pontevecchio Basket shirt and had become a referee in 2021. The Spedaletti family received the most condolences from the Italian Basketball Federation and all of Italian basketball.
The FIP president, Giovanni Petruccisaddened, ordered that a minute’s silence be observed on all fields in all categories today Sunday 10 November. The Blue of coach Capobianco, having learned the news of the tragic death of Giovanni Spedaletti Trabalza, they wanted it symbolically remember during the performance of the Mameli Hymn in Chalkida before the Women’s EuroBasket 2025 qualifier against Greece: the Captain Jasmine Keys held up a whistletogether with the tricolor pennant.
Giovanni Spedaletti Trabalza is the 51st road fatality of 2024 of blood in Umbria. On Saturday afternoon, around 5.30pm, he was traveling along the road from Ponte San Giovanni to Brufa, in the Ferriera area in the Municipality of Torgiano, riding his scooter when for reasons still under investigation it has crashed into a Fiat Panda.
The boy’s condition immediately appeared serious and he was rushed to the Santa Maria della Misericordia hospital in Perugia, where he died shortly after.
Mourning also struck the Giraffa district in Siena of which Giovanni was part.