HAPPY NEW YEAR AT ALL

We wish everyone a good 2010 with the hope that it is better than 2009 and bring you all the happiness you need. Happy Birthday!! See you in the new year!

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WHEN CHARLIE BELL PLAYED IN LEGHORN

Now is one of the important pieces of Milwuakee Bucks, Charlie Bell for a year but has made the public even dream of Leghorn was the league championship markers Lega A.

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LEGHORN'S DERBY - 7th PART

LEGHORN'S DERBY. Another image of the eighties derby between Allibert Leghorn (PL) and Enichem Leghorn (LL).

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LEGHORN v MILANO - 16th PART

LEGHORN v MILAN. The 1989's Finals, Enichem Leghorn (LL) v Philips Milano (Olimpia): Tonut concludes at the basket under the eyes of McAdoo, D'Antoni and Pittis.

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LEGHORN'S DERBY - 6th PART

LEGHORN'S DERBY. The '80s were, surely for all, the pinnacle of basketball "Made in Leghorn" with two teams that will compete to have the supremacy town in the premier league. In this photo a derby between Libertas Leghorn and Rapident Leghorn (PL). It can also recognize the great Rudy Hackett (in Libertas jersey with the number 18).

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LEGHORN'S DERBY - 5th PART

LEGHORN'S DERBY. Again the mithical derby between Libertas and Pallacanestro Leghorn on the historic field in Micali street.

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LEGHORN'S DERBY - 4th PART

LEGHORN'S DERBY. A historian photo who has toured the world, exhibited in a museum in Barcelona (Spain), and was taken during a derby of Leghorn, in the seventies, between Barcas Leghorn (LL) and Pallacanestro Leghorn (PL).

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BOOKS ON THE LEGHORN'S BASKETBALL - 3rd PART: "Libertas Livorno, 40 years of baskets"

Authors: Polisportiva Libertas Livorno - Publication Year: 1988.

The book tells of the glorious history of one of the historical society in Leghorn: the Libertas Leghorn. In the book written signatures of important national and local newspapers, then and now. To sign the chapters are: Dario Colombo, Gianni Decleva, Oscar Eleni, Aldo Giordani, Lorenzo Gremigni, Tullio Lauro, Renzo marmugi, Ugo Pieri, Vinicio and Saltini Zelio Zucchi.Touching and moving presentation of Enrico Vinci, a prominent figure in the national basketball team, then president of the Italian Basketball Federation that not only recalls the importance of Libertas, but points to the importance of basketball at national level including Leghorn occupies the other company then the Pallacanestro Leghorn. A book that the people of yellow and blue has become a true heirloom.

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LEGHORN'S DERBY - 3rd PART

THE LEGHORN'S DERBY. The basketball derby in Leghorn were the heart of the shop for this sport in our city. In the historical image a moment of comparison of the derby on the beach Pancaldi-Acquaviva (in the background you can also recognize the Hotel Palace). The two teams are one of the "Bagni Pancaldi" and other is "After Work of the Railwaymen".

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LEGHORN v MILAN - 15th PART

LEGHORN v MILAN. A rebound of Ray "China" Allen in a mythical match between Fargas Livorno (LL) and Simmenthal Milan.

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THE LEGHORN'S DERBIES - 2nd PART

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BOOKS ON THE LEGHORN'S BASKETBALL - 2nd PART: ALMANAC OF THE LEGHORN'S BASKETBALL IN THE 1987

Authors: Lorenzo Gremigni, Claudio Limardi, Luciano De Majo e Francesco Parducci. Publication Year: 1987.

It's almost like a book "Once upon a time the derby...". The only two differences that come out to a first reading is that this almanac was written ten years earlier than previously mentioned and that "Almanac of the Leghorn's Basketball in 1987" using samples of the second post-war (1946/47) , while "Once upon a time the derby ..." since the early '30's also describing the Fascist era of the sport in our city. Written by prominent journalists such as Lorenzo Gremigni, Claudio Limardi, Luciano De Majo and Francesco Parducci is one of the few almanacs, if not the only one who speaks of basketball in Leghorn to the knowledge of all the glorious history of the movement. An almanac that the libraries of Leghorn's fans of this sport, can not miss!

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THE LEGHORN'S DERBY - PART 1

THE LEGHORN'S DERBY. The mythical derby in Leghorn on the field in Micali street.

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TODAY START A NEW BOOK

Today starts a new column for this blog. In this new section will talk about the derby between the teams of Leghorn. Another step in a glorious history.

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LEGHORN v MILAN - 14th PART

LEGHORN v MILAN. Another moment of the italian basketball playoff finals between Enichem Leghorn and Philips Milan in the 1989.

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BUT LOOK WHO HAS PLAYED IN LEGHORN

(Gianmarco Pozzecco with the jersey of Baker Leghorn in 1993-94)

Gianmarco Pozzecco was born in Gorizia, September 15, 1972. His debut in basketball that has made it in 1991 with the formation of Rex Udine then militancy in the championship serie A2 (now LegaDue). Meanwhile, the formation of Udine had a twinning arrangement with the team formed by the merger of Libertas and Pallacanestro Leghorn because the family Querci (which is not well remembered in Leghorn for the "bloody" merger) had interests in the company of Udine in that Leghorn. For this reason Gianmarco Pozzecco wears the maroon jersey of Baker Leghorn in 1993-94 playing 40 games in the premier league (Serie A1 today Lega A ). At the end of the season involved in the play-out for salvation, but did not win and relegated Leghorn in Division 2. The following year, with Leghorn that fails, Pozzecco (good for him!) leaves the tirrenic coast and moved in Brianza at Varese. With Metis Varese played from 1994 to 2002, competing in 225 games, winning the Championship in 1999 and soon after the Italian Super Cup. Also in 1999, participates with Varese, the McDonald's Championship (a sort of World Cup for clubs). At the end of his adventure from Varese, in the summer of 2002, go to Fortitudo Bologna, where he played 101 matches until 2005. In 2005, leaves the "eagle" because it was put out by the coach pink, and ends the season in Spain in Zaragoza. At the end of the Spanish league leaves the heat of the Iberian Peninsula and moved to the cold of Moscow where he plays in the formation of Khimky. Signing a contract is renewed annually but then the next year because the formation of Russia's qualification for European competition in 2007/2008 ULEB Cup back to Italy and marry all'Orlandina where he ended his basketball career as a major player in three minutes left in the game play-off between Avellino and Capo d'Orlando. Loving basketball and deeply nourishing always willing to play along with his brother in the 2008-09 season, as well as collaborate with the journal "Gazzetta dello Sport" and italian pay television SKY, Gianmarco Pozzecco will wear the coat of Servolana Trieste, training participants in the championship series C Regional (formerly C2). In 2009 enters the company Olimpia Milano pictures returned home to play in Serie C Amateur with "new" Orlandina Basket. In 2004 he participated at the Athens Olympics and won the silver medal losing in the final against Argentina.

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THE BOOKS ON THE HISTORY OF BASKETBALL IN LEGHORN - Part 1: "ONCE UPON A TIME THE DERBY ..."

Author: Andrea Ticciati and Bruno Damari - Publication Year: 1996

A book of great historical value. A journey through the story of a basketball move that has seen ups and downs but has given great satisfaction. The book starts from the first few games in the 30s and reaches up to 1996. Is told as the movement was born in Leghorn basketball derby on the very first public bathing facilities. The early successes of the leghorn's teams, the birth of historical societies, Pallacanestro and Libertas Leghorn, the memory of these two companies, the growth of one great passion town, the importance of women's basketball, the great champions and great champions, the absolute highlights of the 80s with the advent and growth of healthy rivalry town, the historic championship final, the merger between the two historical societies towns (Libertas and Pallacanestro Leghorn precisely), the debacle of a whole movement and its struggle rebirth. A book that brings the real lovers of this sport at moments with the hope of seeing them again and relive it in the very near future.

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LEGHORN v MILAN - 13th PART

LEGHORN v MILAN. It was way back in 1938/39 that played the first game between a team of Leghorn and a team of Milan. The meeting was between the formation of the Guf Milan and Guf Leghorn (in this picture the formation of the Guf Leghorn in 1935) and ended at home in Milan, with the final score of 24-17. Return, played in Leghorn, which, inter alia, by implementing the public record for those times ended with the victory of Milan for 19-13.

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