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NEWS. Is there a team in which almost half of the composition is left-handed? Yes, and this is the Golfo Piombino basket. A unique case in the Italian basketball arena, at least in the first three national categories (series A, A2 and B).

Minority

Left-handed people, that is, people who use their left hand or left foot, if in those activities or sports in which the legs are used, make up 10% of the world’s population.

The World Day dedicated to them is scheduled for August 13, and in history there were (and are) great geniuses and famous people who support the banner of left-handers: among others, one can name Aristotle, Julius Caesar, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo. , Beethoven, Mozart, Albert Einstein, Jimi Hendrix, Diego Armando Maradona, Barack Obama, Emanuel Ginobili, Lionel Messi and Erling Haaland.

Great among righties

Are lefties smarter than righties? We do not know. Many other geniuses are right-handed, as are many basketball and football greats: Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Steph Curry, LeBron James, just to name a few, or Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappe, Ronaldo “The Phenomenon”, Ronaldinho, Benzema, and many more. great footballers. Of course, left-handed brains work a little differently than right-handed people, and in sports they are more unpredictable. And also because they are rarer.

As we have said, every tenth person in the world is left-handed. About the same percentage of left-handed players are found in the basketball leagues of Serie A, A2 and Serie B: an average of one player in each squad. Instead, in the most famous basketball league in the world, the NBA, this percentage drops to 5.1% according to a 2012 study by Tyler and Frank Lawler.

Persian Gulf record

One of the facts, which is certainly unique, is the story of Solbat. In which almost half consists of left-handed players. The Basket Golfo Piombino group, led by coach Damiano Cagnazzo, has one feature that is more unique than rare: five of the eleven players in the squad are left-handers. That’s 45.4% of the total, a huge amount compared to an average of 10% in Serie A and 5.1% in the NBA.

But which Dyalloblu player prefers the left hand? Basket Golfo’s left-handed players are the first to respond to the name of Mattia Venucci from San Vincenzo, the most charismatic and experienced player in the squad, a playmaker who, after a serious injury, is preparing to return to the field in January next year. Then there is striker Lorenzo De Zardo, who is also set to return to the pitch in the coming months after a serious injury he suffered on January 7 on the Oleggio floor. Also left-handed are newcomers Gian Paolo Almansi – a 21-year-old defender from Pielle and one of Italy’s best players in 2002 – and Zdravko Okilevich, a 202cm striker also from Pielle, where he played little last year despite his excellent technical value – finally, Alessandro Azzaro, who, together with Mattia Venucci, will become the most experienced player in Piombinese and who aims to save the 2022–23 season, in which he was often the victim of injuries.