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Dustin Hogue explains what he brings to Cantù
Cantù welcomes Dustin Hogue
First official statements as a player of Acqua S.Bernardo Cantù for Dustin Hogue, the American center class of 1992 who decided to accept the challenge of the Brianza club after a break following last season’s experience in Rieti, with which he competed in the playoffs reaching the semifinals, then lost to Fortitudo Bologna.
“I was fortunate to already know coach Brienza and some of the teammates, such as Moraschini and Baldi Rossi, who had been my teammates in Trento,” Hogue said, “and this definitely facilitated my integration. I got along well in these early workouts and I am starting to get to know everyone else”.
” I am a player who has always put his ego on the back burner, and I have seen that this thing that è already è in common with the whole team – added the 32-year-old basketball player. What I can bring è toughness and tenacity on the court and especially on defense, winning matters more” than anything”.
“I’m very happy, I can’t wait to be able to take the court and try to reach our goals together” concluded Hogue, who è is already at coach Nicola Brienza’s disposal and goes to strengthen a club that, after thirteen games played in this first part of the season, è fourth in the standings, with six points to make up from the leader of its A2 Series round, Rimini.
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With Guillermo Mariotto shatters the Golden Tapiro
Guillermo Mariotto does not like
“This cigarette goes to a place… You better close your mouth when I choose the ashtray”, with these words Guillermo Mariotto addressed’Striscia la notizia correspondent Valerio Staffelli.
Staffelli intercepted Mariotto at’Rome-Fiumicino airport to hand him the Tapiro d’oro after his sudden escape from Ballando con le Stelle last Saturday.
“Stay away or I’ll give this thing to your head” added Mariotto. Then, visibly unnerved, the historic judge of the Raiuno talent show è disappeared in a van. Not before violently closing the car’s door, slammed against the Golden Tapiro ended up on the ground in pieces, as reported by the editorial staff of the satirical broadcast.
The full report will be aired Saturday night on Striscia la notizia (Channel 5, 8:35 p.m.).
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“Boorish chorus”: a fine arrives for Lazio.
Lazio fined after Coppa Italia match
Following the first four matches of the round of 16 of the Italian Cup, the Sports Judge Alessandro Zampone, assisted by Stefania Ginesio and AIA representative Carlo Moretti, did not find in the reports the extremes for the disqualification of players, coaches or managers, but ordered a fine of 6 thousand euros against Lazio, victorious on Thursday evening against Napoli (3-1 the final result), explaining the reason in the note released by Lega Serie A.
The biancoceleste club è was sanctioned, the note reads, “for having its supporters, during the first half, twice intoned a boorish chorus towards the supporters of the opposing team; for having also, during the match, thrown a smoke bomb and some small plastic objects of various kinds in the playing area; penalty mitigated ex art. 29, paragraph 1 lett. b) CGS”.
As far as Lazio itself is concerned, for protests against the referee, Mattia Zaccagni (who, as captain, will also have to pay a 1,500 euro fine) and Elseid Hysaj were sanctioned with a warning (first sanction). For misbehavior, Robin Gosens of Fiorentina, Armando Izzo of Monza, Luca Marianucci and Giuseppe Pezzella of Empoli, Rafa Marin and David Neres of Napoli, Cas Odenthal and Yeferson Paz of Sassuolo, as well as Filippo Terracciano of AC Milan also received the first penalty of the tournament.
All of the players listed, in fact, received a yellow card during their respective Coppa Italia engagements, which, in addition to Lazio’s success over Napoli, saw the qualification to the quarterfinals of Bologna (4-0 to Monza), Milan (6-1 to Sassuolo) and Empoli (4-3 on penalties against Fiorentina after a 2-2 draw in the 90′).
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Demis Cavina asks way to Varese
Sunday night’s challenge between Cremona and Varese
They are two points alreadyà very important, despite it being only the tenth day of the championship, those that Vanoli Cremona and Openjobmetis Varese will go to contend at the PalaRadi, in the home of the biancoblù, Sunday at 8 p.m. Cremona occupies in fact the penultimate place with 2 points, Varese è a little moreù up at 4.
“If there’è one thing you can’t buy even at the summer market è experience – explained, during the presentation, coach biancoblù Demis Cavina -: many of our players are called for the first time this year to be leaders, to be protagonists in the first league, including even some foreign boys”.
“At a time where maybe Trevor Lacey è unfortunately not physically at 100 percent, we have to try to have all of us more focus and determination,” he added, “to have precisely more coolness in the top moments of the game. This does not mean only in the last seconds, but also in the important moments, such as last Sunday in the third quarter, when we missed five free throws in a row and è it was the moment when they came back in a game where basically we were saying our”.
” So this concentration and determination will obviously come with time, we must però try to bring home, as we are already saying for a while’, not only good performances but results becauseé our ranking absolutely needs it” then concluded Cavina, who against the biancorossi will tryà to end a series of five consecutive knockouts.
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