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Athletics in mourning for Gustavo Pallicca
Gustavo Pallicca has died
Sad news shook Italian athletics on Thursday evening. Gone at the age of 87 in Florence is Gustavo Pallicca, competition judge, journalist, writer, executive, a true athletics enthusiast, a competent and attentive historical memory, a figure who in different guises spanned more than sixty years of our sport. Born in Turin (January 4, 1936), Tuscan by adoption, a basketball player in his youth, he became an athletics judge in ’62 and as a starter took part in the starting juries of hundreds of events, national and international, including the 1974 European Championships in Rome and the 1987 World Championships at the Olympic Stadium. Alongside his professional activities as a bank manager, he has also always cultivated his passion as a journalist, a contributor to the daily newspaper La Nazione and the federal magazine Atletica, but he has also held leadership roles in the FIDAL provincial committee of Pistoia, the city in which he was among the founders of the local club.
In more recent years, in order to make available his enormous knowledge of the subject and continue to delve into the histories and personalities of athletics, he has edited publications for the Federation’s Center for Studies and Research related to the world of race starters, collaborated with Roberto Quercetani in writing a volume on world sprinting from 1850 to 2005, edited in 2010 the work tracing the first 30 years of the Golden Gala, actively participated in the life of associations such as the Centro Studi e Documentazione Assi Giglio Rosso of Florence, the Bruno Bonomelli Italian Athletics Historical Archives, and the Italian Society of Sports History. For the Gruppo Giudici Gare, in recent years, he has edited the section on the federal website dedicated to stories and tales, including anecdotes and biographies. During his career he has been awarded the CONI Gold Star for Sports Merit and the 3rd Degree Oak, the Federation’s highest award. But most of all, he was appreciated and esteemed by those who knew him or by those who, thanks to his meticulous and professional signature, discovered the true essence of athletics and its protagonists.
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All-U.S. semifinal at US Open
Another big man exits the tournament. After the various Alcaraz and Djokovic, Zverev è is also no longer in the running at the US Open. The German è was beaten by Fritz in four sets (7-6 (2) 3-6 6-4 7-6), at the end of a match that è lasted almost three and a half hours. A defeat that leaves a lot of bitterness in Zverev’s mouth. The German was aiming to reach at least the final.
A feat for the American who, dragged by the home crowd, won the first semifinal of a Slam event. After winning the first set on tie-break, Fritz suffered the return of Zverev, who took home the second partial with a peremptory 6-3. The momentum seemed to be in the German’s hands but Fritz escaped on 3-0. Zverev recovers but gives up at the più beautiful. Spectacular fourth set. Zverev tries everything but, once again, the tie-break costs him dearly. He loses it 7-3 and says goodbye to the tournament.
Dreams big for Fritz who, in the semifinals, will face the other American Tiafoe who, in the quarterfinals, wins the match with Dimitrov, forced to retire in the fourth set due to a physical problem: 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 4-1 the partials in favor of Tiafoe.
The United States dreams, after 21 years (Roddick, 2003), of an American winning the U.S. Open. In the meantime, it enjoys Sinner who, thanks to Zverev è’s knockout; increasingly serene in his comfortable position as world No. 1.
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Juventus, the list
Juventus has also released the Uefa list for the 2024/25 Champions League and specifically there are 28 players chosen by Thiago Motta: 22 on List A and 6 on List B.
The surprise name è that of Arthur, considered until yesterday out of the Bianconeri project, which remains for all intents and purposes Filip Kostic, cut and looking for accommodation abroad.
The complete list:
LIST A
1 PERIN
3 BREMER
4 GATTI
5 LOCATELLI
6 DANILO
7 CONCEICAO
8 KOOPMEINERS
9 VLAHOVIC
11 NICO GONZALEZ
14 MILIK
15 KALULU
16 MCKENNIE
17 ADZIC
18 ARTHUR
19 THURAM
21 BEANS
22 WEAH
23 PINSOGLIO
26 DOUGLAS LUIZ
27 CAMBIASO
29 DI GREGORIO
32 CABAL
LIST B
10 YILDIZ
36 ANGHELE’
37 SAVONA
38 DAFFARA
40 ROUHI
51 MBANGULA
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Milan, the list
No Champions for Luka Jovic, who is not part of the list handed to Uefa regarding the players who can be fielded in the Champions League group stage.
In fact, Fonseca chose the men for the eight scheduled matches with Real Madrid, Liverpool, Brugge, Bayer Leverkusen, Red Star, Dinamo Zagreb, Girona and Slovan Bratislava, leaving the Serbian out.
LIST A
2 Davide Calabria
4 Ismael Bennacer
7 Alvaro Morata
8 Rubén Loftus-Cheek
10 Rafael Leao
11 Christian Pulisic
14 Tijjani Reijnders
16 Mike Maignan
17 Noah Okafor
19 Theo Hernandez
21 Samuel Chukwueze
22 Emerson Royal
23 Fikayo Tomori
24 Alessandro Florenzi
28 Malick Thiaw
29 Youssouf Fofana
31 Strahinja Pavlovic
42 Filippo Terracciano
46 Matteo Gabbia
57 Marco Sportiello
80 Yunus Musah
90 Tammy Abraham
LIST B
Adam Bakoune, Davide Bartesaghi, Andrea Bozzolan, Francesco Camarda, Andrei Coubis, Hugo Cuenca, Victor Eletu, Mattia Liberali, Vittorio Magni, Mattia Malaspina, Lapo Nava, Dorian Paloschi, Diego Sia, Dariusz Stalmach, Lorenzo Torriani, Chaka Traoré, Kevin Zeroli.
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