Baseball – Photo IPA
The Italian Baseball Softball Federation has a new president. It’s about Marco Mazzieri, who was elected after obtaining 56.04% of the votes. The other candidate, Andrea Marcon, had to raise the white flag, stopping at 42.70%. Mazzieri thus becomes the ninth president in the history of the Federation: “If they had told me 50 years ago that I would become president of this movement, which has given me so much, I would not have believed it – explains – We want to be everyone’s Federation, putting everyone in a position to be able to work at their best.”
The new federal council will be composed of the following members: Pierluigi Bissa, Stefano Sbardolini, Federica Morri, Marina Centrone, Sabrina Olivero, Marco Mannucci, Sergio Piccinini in the affiliate quota. Andrea Sgnaolin, Emanuela Giovinazzo in athletes’ quota. Ettore Finetti at technical level. The President of the Board of Auditors is Federico Loda. Mazzieri was born in Grosseto in 1962 played over 1000 games in the top division of baseball and in his honor the BBC Grosseto retired the number 5. In the national team, as a player, he was part of the Italian selection from the 1985 European Championship to the 1990 World Cup, for a total of 73 appearances.
In the second part of his career he held the role of coach, first of the Junior National team with which he won the 2007 European Championship and then as manager of the senior national teamwith triumphs at the European Championships in 2010 and 2012. Also in 2010, bronze also came at the last Intercontinental Cup in Taiwan in the 3rd place final against the hosts. In 2013, under his leadership, Italy reached the second phase of the World Baseball Classic. In recent years he has been awarded the Career Achievement Award by the European Baseball Coaches Association and is still Chairman of the Coach Commission of the World Baseball Softball Confederation.
