The Minibasket of the Epiphany is coming. The minibasket Tournament, organized by the basketball team of the Hurricane Basketball cooperating with the Fip of Padua, will be played in 8 playing fields of Padua and its province from Thursday the 2nd to Sunday the 5th of January. A new start for the minibasket international event, which has now reached its 16th edition.“It will be a kind of year zero”, explain the organizers Andrea Beghin and Emanuele Mura who took the baton from Leopoldo Carraro. To witness it there are the staggering numbers of the Epiphany: 714 children, 44 societies, 140 matches. Several are the minibasket teams coming also from other regions, that will honour the event: San Paolo Roma, Virtus Matera, Mens Sana Siena, Virtus Siena, Vignola Modena, Collegno Basket Torino and even a foreign group, the Croatians of the Bc Krizevci team. The hospitality reserved to the mini-athletes and their parents: four teams will stay in the secondary school of Limena (67 between children and trainers), two other groups will sleep in a hotel, while the Croatian squad will be staying with the families of the Jolly Santa Maria di Sala team. A welcome, which will be extended also to the special team of 37 young federal referees, lodged as well in the secondary schools of Limena.
Il Mattino di Padova – 30/12/2013