AT LEGHORN WAS PLAYED BEFORE THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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PERSONALITIES - 2nd PART: OTELLO FORMIGLI

We continue our journey in the great personalities who have made great history of basketball in Leghorn. Today we will talk about Otello Formigli style is not invented, but with a style is born.

Its elegance, its tranquility, his jokes have made the history of basketball amaranth.

This was Otello Formigli. With him the ball into wedges in Leghorn knew the reputation experiencing epic moments.

From the pioneering invention exploits the "levers basketball" until long marriage to the Libertas: there are many events that have marked a career of sacrifice, common sense and a touch of humor.

Epica his proverbial calm in dealing with the embarrassment of scoring because even under twenty points, continued to encourage his teammates, saying, "Okay. You are good. Keep it up '."

Was his famous phrase: "The important thing is PUT THE BALL IN THE BASKET", reserved for its athletes without any distinction of valor.

Knew how to teach and defuse, amuse and bring the sport in the common fact of everyday life. An asset of inestimable value for a player and a coach who is.

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ILBASKETLIVORNESE.IT SPOT

The history of basketball in Leghorn from 1930 to the present day on the web.

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PERSONALITIES - 1st PART: BRUNO MACCHIA

Starting today a new journey in the history of basketball in Leghorn. From today we will begin to examine the major characters (managers, coaches and players) who have written important pages of basketball in our city and in Italy. We start by dr. Bruno Macchia.

Dr. Bruno Macchia has not only been among the pioneers of basketball in Leghorn, but has spent his entire life around the sport, first as a player, then as a coach, then as a manager, both provincial and national level.

He is also responsible for the formation of the first section of arbitration and the start of the women's basketball.

But Bruno Macchia is primarily related to the "Leve basketball", an initiative designed to leave an indelible mark. Board by the recruitment of many young people will leave out many talented basketball labronica who joined the history of basketball country.

From basketball Bruno Macchia not if they have never separated, even when they start to become weak given the age and should be supported by a club. Until the last days of his life, Dr. Macchia has continued to feed on basketball.

Today the old indoor stadium in Leghorn, the mythical PalAllende, which saw the legendary business teams own citizens is called on his behalf, calling it PALAMACCHIA.

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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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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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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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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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THE PIONEERS

The first basketball team in Leghorn - nicknamed "THE BLACK EAGLES" from the color of their jerseys.

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WELCOME IN THE SHOWTIME

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