When the young editor does not ask (for preparing basketball) a commemorative piece "because those guys are on me c.. Farewell, legendary Pino.
(ANSA) - ROMA, 21 GEN - His basketball was still a black and white, but the color in his career and 'red state. Olimpia Milano of the famous shoes. Giuseppe Pino said Brumatti was much more 'of a sample for basketball. Gorizia doc, lego 'his fame to a city' as Milan, a subtle contradiction for him as always cheerful and outgoing character, for a legend who knows almost a fairy tale, that of 'red shoes' in fact.
A tale, founded in the mid-Fifties and duration of seventeen, and that 'even became a legend in the Italian and European basketball. Crushed for 62 years by an illness, Brumatti leaves a void hard to fill and the sadness in those who knew him also as an opponent. Now the basketball will remember 'with a minute's silence, and beyond. "He was a true champion. Man shot by winning the first true point guard of Italian football," recalls Dan Peterson, the coach of Milan times D'Antoni and Meneghin. At the time of Brumatti under the Madonna, the American engineer was on the bench in Bologna. "For me it was a nightmare - he says - to meet Brumatti of the Olympia, a very difficult player to mark. "Another great opponent Dino Meneghin, hero of Varese in those years, remembers him as being" cheerful, friendly, helpful and smiling. He was always joking and in the field played the best basketball. He could make the sport and good fun. "
Then Varese and Milan was the championship duel. SuperDino When moved 'in Milan Brumatti already' had gone away, but often found themselves in the national team." He was tied to the block and Milan People like Jellini, or Cerioni Masini, "remembers Meneghin. All these names that Brumatti as forming part of the history of the 'red shoes', as Arthur Kenney 'red', opponent of many battles under the basket with just Meneghin. The 'father' of that team was Cesare Rubini, who led 'the Olympia in the late fifties to early seventies. And remember how the same Meneghin remained sentimentally attached to Brumatti. "One day he wrote a letter entitled 'to my last hero'. With the red and white jersey
Brumatti won against Ignis Varese 1971-72 season in a league and Italian Cup, then three European Cup Winners' Cups: in '70-71, in '71-72 and '75-76. At the Milan game Simmenthal 'from '67 to '77, before going to play in Turin (from '77 to 83) under the guidance of Sandro Gamba and Reggio Emilia (83 87) on Sunday will remember' playing with mourning. "I wanted with me in Turin - remember leg, another technician who made the history Olimpia - and he always repaid with great professionalism 'and affection." Former coach remembers shooting blue "stylistically perfect" to Brumatti. But most 'of all the human qualities and the strong bond that united them. "Every time I went to see him and he knew it, ended up playing badly - remember Gamba -. So to avoid that continue to play badly, when I went to see him, I hid behind a column to be 'that no move too much. "
Even after the golden years as a player Brumatti succeeded 'always make a difference. In Turin, drag 'the team in A1, as he did years later in Verona, where ended his career in '89 (retired 'in 1990 after last season at Siena, but where' never set foot in the field), collecting 8,755 career points (14 / or history in the Italian championship) and 620 Serie A appearances in 21 seasons. In its national then 102 appearances and 564 points scored (Monaco has participated in the Olympics in 1972 and Montreal 1976, in addition to the Europeans in Naples in 1969 and Barcelona in 1973. After his playing career taken by the executive and in 2007 was Basketball appointed sporting director of the New Gorizia.
Just last summer he was rewarded by Fip after Italy joined the Basketball Hall of Fame. An award for the few, reserved for only the most ' large. (ANSA).
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