“I told you that at PalaCalafiore we were preparing a surprise. Here is now official: On February 23 we will host the Italian basketball national team in the official match against Hungary for the qualifications at the European 2025“.
The mayor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Falcomatà, announced it in a social post.
“Thanks to the agreement with our municipality, for four days the boys of coach Gianmarco Pozzecco and of the chief of head Gigi Datome, together with the top of Italian basketball, will be in Reggio Calabria. And it will also be an opportunity to meet students, sports clubs e Fans of the ball in the wedges.
The satisfaction of the Calabria FIP
“It is a reason for great pride for all Calabria to host the Italian national team engaged in such a prestigious race – said the president of Fip Calabria, Paolo Surace. – Our region, increasingly protagonist in the national basketball scene, is preparing to welcome the blues in a frame that enhances not only sport, but the entire Calabrian community. A dream chased for a long time is realized and made possible by President Petrucci, always attentive and close to our territory, with which we have confronted each other for a long time in recent months. Thanks also goes to the mayor Falcomatà and the municipal administration of Reggio Calabria who made this extraordinary event possible “. The meeting of 23 February does not only score a return of the national team to Reggio Calabria after 21 years, but a great moment of growth for the Calabrian movement for a party that will last three days, since the arrival of the blues, with a series of events collateral that will animate the city for the entire period in which the national team will be a guest on the shore to the Strait and of which we will provide a special calendar in the next few days. “We are preparing a series of activities that will involve everyone, from basketball enthusiasts to citizens, with events that will transform Reggio Calabria, which has basketball in its DNA and its history, in the heart of Italian and European basketball for those days – he added Surace. – These events will not only be an opportunity to live basketball, but also to celebrate the passion and values of sport “. With the Match Italia-Hungary, the Azzurri are preparing to conclude the qualification cycle at Eurobasket 2025, a tournament to be held from 27 August to 14 September 2025 in Latvia, Poland, Finland and Cyprus. The national team, already qualified for the continental review, will face an opponent who, despite having lost in the first leg in Szombathely, is still running for the transition to the final phase. Tickets for the game are available on Vivaticket and reminds us that for the Calabrian basketball companies there is a special promotion already communicated to them. We all invite to participate and enthusiastically support the Italian national team.