Exclusive Padel Cup, former players competing in Milan: Dida-Serginho in pairs- Corriere.it

The padel mania, in former players, is rampant
. They tour Italy with the racket in hand and often put on a show and win tournaments. They will also try it over the weekend at the Aspria Harbor Club, home to the first of six stages of the second edition of the Exclusive Padel Cup, organized by MSP Italia and which will have three stages in Milan and three in Rome.

And above all a couple to excite the Milan fans, a few months after the 20th anniversary of the Champions League victory in Manchester: the one formed by Nelson Dida and Serginho. But there will also be Cristian Brocchi (who will play with the former goalkeeper Ivan Gamberini), Riccardo Maspero and Mario Ielpo (also in pairs), and an all made in rugby duo made up of the former blue Paul Griffen and the athletic trainer of the national team Massimo Zaghini.

A stage of last year’s edition was won by Cristian Zenoni (ex, among others, of Atalanta and Juve), and who knows if in this second edition of the tournament Beppe Bergomi will still be the protagonist of the mixed doubles with his wife Daniela. There will certainly be Nicola Legrottaglieas well as expected Luca Facchetti, the son of Giacinto, who is a great fan of padel as well as promoter of Padel Mixto, which foresees the presence on the field of an able-bodied player (standing) and a disabled player, in a wheelchair.

After the extraordinary result, in terms of attendance and visibility, of last year, we are happy to restart with the Exclusive Padel Cup Intesa Sanpaolo in Rome and Milan, two cities in which padel is now a widespread sport – explained Claudio Briganti, national padel manager of MSP Italia -. For the past eight years we have been organizing amateur padel tournaments on a national scale, involving over ten thousand players, and the Exclusive Cup in this sense represents an excellence of our calendar.