Crystalline talent, physicist from a higher category and hunger to grow: Andrea Montemurro is ready to battle on the parquet with the Pyroxigian Cosenza Basketball shirt! Born in 2008, 191 centimeters play-guard, it is considered one of the most interesting prospects of the Calabrian basketball scene. After taking the first steps and showing great things to the Micomega Cosenza, at the court of President Eugenio Piro, Andrea finds many teammates last year with the microveric and on the bench coach Manu Gallo, ready to guide him again in the Dr1 championship. The goal is to continue shining, growing quickly and flight to basketball that counts, of course with the rossoblù shirt.
Pyroxigeno bets strongly on him.
In the 2023/24 season he completed the qualitative leap: debut and points in Interregional Serie B, in Bim Bum he makes, showing that he can compete among the professionals. Confirmed in a double membership, with the micromega, last year, he played in the regional division 1 closing the tournament with 10 points of average per game and showing a technical maturity higher than age. “Andrea embodies the prototype of the modern basketball player – explains Fabio Lorenzi, ds of pyroxigenous – generous, with a shot from three reliable, capable of attacking iron with decision and defending without reverence fear. I am sure that in DR1 he will be able to provide more solutions to coach Gallo”.
At just 17 years old, Andrea Montemurro has already written important pages in youth basketball. In March 2023, he was summoned to the Italian Under 15 national team, at the Naples meeting led by Andrea Capobianco. In the same year he was the regional Under 15 champion with the Cosenza Micromega and two seasons later he replied the success in the Under 19 with the Bim Bum Rende. In addition, the victory at the NTC Summer League Under 18, which widened the doors of the 3×3 finals of Riccione, has to be recorded.