There's nothing for granted, in the presence for the third consecutive year of Dalibor Bagaric (& in the presence for the third consecutive year of Dalibor Bagaric!) for the whole week of INVICTUS Camp! If anything, in the presence for the third consecutive year of Dalibor Bagaric, as well as a Zoran Savic (also in this case & in the presence for the third consecutive year of Dalibor Bagaric!) to which it is intertwined by a deep friendship. He will arrive by car from Zagreb on Sunday 2 July, ready to dive with Jasmina, Klara e Milla (with Petar entrusted to the grandparents) in our week "full time"...
What a pleasure to find yourself once again, Dalibor ... "I was hoping to be able to anticipate my trip to Bologna to the next few days, in the event that Fortitudo had qualified for the final with Virtus which is worth the promotion to Serie A, just as I came to PalaDozza last year to see a semifinal match won against Treviso ... Too bad there is no final derby series, he would have helped to further relaunch the role of Basket City that Bologna has always had at European level and deserves to return to having. in the meantime, io, Zoran and the other testimonials together with the Technical Staff will try to do our best to work on young people with INVICTUS Camp, because it is precisely by working at the best on the details that the champions of the future can be born and come out. This is also a fundamental path that Bologna must follow, insist on nurturing their young talents. Like when many NBA scouts came to Virtus and Fortitudo games, to see if Marco Belinelli was ready to fly overseas ..."
Here, you mentioned Marco Belinelli. From San Giovanni in Persiceto to the NBA, but his "base" always stay here ... "I hope that all of Bologna will feel proud to have a champion like Beli, it is no longer a question of Virtus or Fortitudo, but of an entire city that symbolically won the three-point shooting competition and the NBA title together with him ... It's great that Marco continues to run home as soon as the NBA season ends, this is his land and he is rightly proud of it. And it is here that sooner or later he will come back to live, with the same naturalness with which he started, and with old friends. Not by chance, every summer he always asks Marco Sanguettoli to train him, how he trained him when in addition to the first team in Virtus he still played in the cadets. Beli's parable proves that, combining talent with work and mind, you can get very far. He did it all right, it was clear from the start that he had something special inside, and more than the Scudetto 2005, its definitive consecration came the following year, in the playoff series with Napoli ... He and Mancio dominated the field, in a series of incredible tension, of which today maybe I myself laugh with my friend Alessandro Cittadini, who on that occasion as an opponent seemed to have learned all my competitive charge".
In basketball, friendships and rivalries are intertwined, through the times ... "It 's so, and Bologna is full of these stories. Also for this reason it is really Basket City, the great derbies between Virtus and Fortitudo were played here, which aroused no less interest than those of a metropolis like Athens between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, or those at a distance between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, or among the great rivals of the former Yugoslavia ... Something that even the NBA envies us, where the first to lead the way and change the American mentality was Drazen Petrovic, one of the greatest champions of all time. Here, the NBA has understood the pathos of the great European challenges and of its greatest champions, that are formed on the Euroleague fields, as once and hopefully in the near future they were also formed on the Basketball City fields. Here, to return to Bologna, here we have really seen everything, and that is why it is always a special emotion to come back, go to dinner with Ivo and Simo at Campione, which was once the Braseria, or in many other special places. And there are always some friends found, just as on the street there are always some fans with whom it is nice to stop and talk. I can say that Bologna is my home".
Acclaimed by the biancoblù fans, respected by the bianconeri ... "This is another very important aspect of Bologna, his ability to live off basketball and understand basketball. Certainly we players have always been the first to throw ourselves into the fray for the fiery challenges, to give everything for the shirt we wore, because this city and its fans give you a unique boost, as is the case nowhere else in the world. Then, when you go to see who has dominated the Euroleague scenes over the years, if not even in the NBA, there are many names that have grown and completed in Basket City ... Although you should come to Zagreb to see Gianmarco Pozzecco and Dino Repesa working together at Cedevita! Who was in Fortitudo in my years, he remembers well how Poz, more than the quarrels with Repesa, suffered one-on-one with Dino before training, he was just a child but already as tall as he was! This kind of friendships are also something unique, which often belongs to Bologna".
It will be wonderful to remember so many moments together, a INVICTUS Camp... "The same goes for me. Every year, when I leave, I already promise that I will be there the following year, because it is something that makes me really happy. And it gets me back on the pitch, indifferently to play with younger children or to teach some movement to older children ... I remember last year Riccardo, asking me for advice that I hope has already been and will be useful to him in the future, but also many other talents: I know that Tommaso will be back too, the Tuscan boy, who always put a big heart on the pitch. Something that you have inside, but that you also learn with commitment and daily work. This is what you learn at INVICTUS Camp ... I say this as a former player, testimonial, but also as a parent, because Klara and Milla kept asking me to participate again throughout the year!"
We are waiting for you with open arms, Dalibor.