Basket B / M: CJ Taranto, Fortitudo Francavilla new satellite company
The link with Virtus Taranto remains strong to form a vast youth basketball network
CJ Basket Taranto is pleased to announce that from the 2022/23 season, Fortitudo Basket Francavilla will be its new satellite company. The rossoblu coach Davide Olive will be the trait d’union with the Francavilla Fontana club he founded in 2017 and which in a short time has become an important reality of the Apulian youth basketball, capable of winning 6 regional titles in the last 2 years and last year, moreover, with three CJ players on the roster in double membership, Matteo Carone (official his passage to Assi Brindisi in Serie C), Luca Cianci, Andrea Liace, to reach a great and historic salvation in the series championship C Silver.
The rossoblu coach blesses this new union: “I am pleased that an important reality like CJ Taranto has offered us to collaborate and become a satellite company. It is an important agreement for our players, who will be able to train and play in series. B, as it already happens with the young people from Virtus Taranto “.
Virtus Taranto will remain alongside CJ Basket, by now the historic cantera of Tarantine basketball capable of bringing up many interesting players in recent years, starting with the formidable group, that of the ’97 class that has collected victories even outside the borders regional, of which the current Cussian guard Gianmarco Conte was part, fresh from reconfirmation in the rossoblu roster 22/23.
Because “united we win”. This is the motto at the base of an ever-larger project that sees CJ Basket Taranto as the leader of a youth basketball network that is expanding for the sake of the ball in segments of the territory aimed at giving birth to a new generation of basketball players with the goal of having in the future a new brood of players for the big stages of basketball played at high levels.
In these days the best Italian technicians and not only, including coaches Olive, Mineo, Cottignoli (newly signed as assistant coach in Nardò in A2), Leale, Alba, Roberta Stola, and many others are holding the training camp Every Single Day organized by Virtus Taranto – Support_O, a high-level basketball training course that is taking place at the Archimede and Martellotta facilities. Because, in fact, unity is strength. (Press release)
