The day after the announcement of the birth of INVICTUS Academy in Bologna, speaks Zoran Savic. "It 'something that we thought long. We were given an extra year of waiting, but the latest edition of INVICTUS Camp, in which we again increased both the quality and technical level offered to boys and participating children, that one of the answers they have provided us on and off the field, It convinced us that the time was right to begin".
Second phase, therefore. On what basis? "We have always said that our goal was to give to the participants of Camp INVICTUS a week as protagonists, as if they were players of a great club. Is that, albeit over a period of one week, they could take with them something of the experience, both from a technical point of view that human, to continue to put in place to improve. Here, Now we want to commit ourselves to continue to offer the same technical and organizational level, but over the entire season".
It will be a continuation of INVICTUS Camp, then? "From a certain point of view, Yup. The technical lines of work will be the same, and coaches who will be involved will be the components Technical Staff. Mostly, our 'mission' will continue to be to educate and train children, making them improve as basketball players, through the values of sport. Not all come to have the career of Marco Belinelli, but each of them will have the opportunity to grow and gain experience and skills, not only basketball but life".
There is a risk of competition with other local sports clubs? "Do not we want to be competing. We will start with Minibasket Center, responding to the request of many families, They can freely choose where to enroll their children. And we start with the youth sector, with a very clear proposal for the families of the children and for their societies: to do work of a technical improvement on the boys, designed to make them become better basketball players, for the benefit of company affiliation, where maybe in the immediate key would not have a place in the team, or they would be redirected to second groups".
What do you find to INVICTUS Academy? "The same technical and organizational care of INVICTUS Camp, which in turn will continue in summer, being further improved. With a unique business program, optimized for each team, and a head coach plus a dedicated Assistant Coach, as well as an athletic trainer and other reference figures. In particular, by the experience of INVICTUS Camp 2018 We take what has been one of the most successful innovations ..."
Which, If you can anticipate? "Patricio Prato came to Camp INVICTUS and has proposed the idea to do 'demonstrator', alongside the coaches to see teens and children how to perform the various movements. He not only quality but exceptional human techniques, enabling him to pursue a professional player career. This innovation has had great success, we extended to Chris McNealy, John Ebeling e Augusto Binelli. We would like Patricio, but Chris and John, They became our 'Player Development Coach'. And I'd like to collaborate further with Gus, San Giorgio di Piano is just a few kilometers from Bologna".
There will be other great characters involved ... "Yup, because friendship that binds us to Dalibor Bagaric him to be a 'testimonial' inevitable at each INVICTUS Camp Edition, but which will also come in special occasions INVICTUS Academy ... Similarly, I Matjaz Smodis, Hugo Sconochini and other players who have been linked. Come Carlos Delfino, that returns the protagonists in Italy with Torino, signed by a legendary coach like Larry Brown who already wanted in the NBA ... Here, I would sign to organize a special event like INVICTUS Academy in Bologna, inviting both ..."
There will also be space for women's basketball? "Last July, introducing for the first time women's basketball at Camp INVICTUS, we had as 'Exclusive Coach' two Italian legends like mara fullin and Ivana Donadel, Today direct and train a company with nearly a hundred girls and girls in Cesena ... We have talked, we have faced, and above all we said goodbye to the idea of deepening cooperation. I think inside INVICTUS Academy there will certainly be an important role for the women's basketball, perhaps extending our project from Bologna to Cesena, where there is a tradition of the highest level, and two characters as they".
in the meantime, the basis for INVICTUS Academy will be in Bologna ... "Our project aims to revive the basketball Bologna, from children and young people. It 'a way to give something back to a city that, in my career but especially in my life, It has meant so much to me. We are moving on several fronts, to define the ideal location of Bologna Academy for INVICTUS. And do not hide it, since in addition to Minibasket Center and the Youth Sector, we aim to organize mini-tournaments is that the youth of national and international, as well as events involving the world of schools, as in other countries, my dream would be to bring INVICTUS Academy at Land Rover Arena: the best plant in Europe, that every child should be able to visit".