the coach had been arrested for child abuse – Corriere.it

Born in 1938 as part of the exclusive De Merode Collegeinspired by its statute in sport and study by Lasallian-type educational principles, the Stella Azzurra Basket in Rome is considered the exclusive living room of Italian or at least Roman youth basketball, a place where athletes, coming from different continents, growing up in the Academy they are directed to foster and accelerate intercultural processes within the contexts in which they are inserted, as well as to develop aptitudes to become real cultural mediators, as stated in the presentation on the social site.

The second storm of the season hit the Capitoline team on Monday morning, the mass referral of the Federbasket sports prosecutor’s office of all management staff of the core team and related teams or the coach Germano D’Arcangeli of the Stella Azzurra srl ​​company, the president Monica Grani of the Stella Azzurra Roma Nord company, the president Daniele Camponeschi of the Stella Azzurra Basketball Academy, the president Fabio De Mita of the Stella Azzurra srl ​​company, for disciplinary responsibilities regarding the management of the position of the trainer Paul Traino. Germano D’Arcangeli is one of the best known Italian coaches in the youth sector. The main story, which exploded last February, was that of the team’s talent scout Paolo Traino, arrested for alleged abuse of underage players who were staying in the exclusive guesthouse on via Flaminia.

The investigators tried to understand how it was possible for the club to hire a technician who had already had two final convictions for child abuse and also entered one or more team managers in the register of suspects, with the hypothesis crime of aiding and abetting. The passage of the documents to the federal prosecutor made it possible to start the sporting provision (which will have to quickly ascertain facts and responsibilities) which, once the trial is over, provides for penalties up to radiation. Among the witnesses there would be numerous athletes and former athletes of the team. Talents such as Andrea Bargnani, Matteo Spagnolo, Giampaolo Ricci, Amar Alibegović, Paul Eboua. When the team plays (even with satellite companies) there is practically no match at regional level and often not even national given the number of championships won up to the under 19 category. The Star is known for recruiting young talents throughout Europe (especially in the east) and then sell them to more or less important clubs. The senior training has recently obtained salvation in A2: for some time now the management has abandoned dreams of glory in the absolute sector (where it boasted the participation of 14 athletes in the national team, two participations in the Korac cup (1975/1977), 22 years of militancy in Serie A, 2 fourth places in the top division) to devote himself to a nursery projected almost exclusively to transfer to other teams.