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1. Press releases

   Pilato and Quadarella, queens in the pool and in life

   The Great Beauty of the sixth edition of the Festival left its mark in Trento on the last day of the kermesse, which closed with a hint of melancholy, but also with great emotion. At the Filarmonica hundreds of fans welcomed Benedetta Pilato and Simona Quadarella, the two new queens of Italian swimming. To Stefano Arcobelli, journalist for the Gazzetta dello Sport, the two champions also revealed their more human side, between studies, affections and hobbies.

   Publication date: 15/10/2023

   
2. Press releases

   Zlatan Ibrahimovic: the 'divine' who made football history

   The last day of this sixth edition of the Sports Festival drew hundreds of people to Trento's Teatro Sociale for Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The queue of spectators started as early as eight o'clock in the morning, with many Rossoneri shirts waiting for the Swedish champion. He told his story, retracing the many teams in which he has played and letting himself go - respecting expectations - to some particular comments that drew laughter and applause. "I like challenges," added Ibrahimovic. Let's say I prefer to walk on fire than on water... which really only I can do'.

   Publication date: 15/10/2023

   
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   Kevin Young: the obstacle course and the myth of the number 46.78

   Obstacle racing legend Kevin Young's story began with a trip down memory lane from his youth. In an interview conducted by Andrea Buongiovanni, journalist for the Gazzetta dello Sport, Young went through several highlights of his sporting career, culminating in 1992 in Barcelona with the achievement of a world record that has stood unbroken for a good twenty-nine years. Joining him on the Sports Festival stage was hurdler Alessandro Sibilio, the promise of Italian athletics.

   Publication date: 15/10/2023

   
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   Flavia and Francesca, the genius friends of tennis

   A legendary double today in the Sala Filarmonica, packed with fans who welcomed the queens of Italian tennis Flavia Pennetta and Francesca Schiavone. Cristina Fantoni, sports journalist and La7 anchorwoman, led the sparkling exchange of banter between the two, bringing the 'genius friends' to the Trento Sports Festival with naturalness and friendliness, earning more than one applause and a smile from the audience.
   Yes, because the ladies of the Grand Slam - the first and second Italians to win the feat - as well as having made tennis history both individually and as a couple, have travelled many stretches of road together, and their friendship, seasoned by the game of opposites and differences, was above all based on harmony, in terms of technique, game tactics and sporting vision.

   Publication date: 15/10/2023

   
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   Filippo Inzaghi: passion, perseverance and dedication to get to the top

   The double in the Athens final, the goal scored at the World Cup in Germany, over 300 goals scored in a career where he won everything he could win, but the most important ones for Filippo Inzaghi were the goals in the Champions League preliminaries in 2006 against Red Star. The former AC Milan and national team striker chose the Festival dello Sport to present his latest book entitled 'Il momento giusto' (The Right Moment), a clear reference to his ability to choose the exact moment to evade the opponent's offside trap and present himself alone in front of the goalkeeper.

   Publication date: 15/10/2023

   
6. Press releases

   Milan Cortina, the Olympic dream draws closer

   At the Sports Festival emotions, hopes and ambitions of the Azzurri with legend Carolina Kostner

   Publication date: 15/10/2023

   
7. Press releases

   Pizarro and Dida enchant in Legends Padel Cup

   What better way to promote padel than to involve champions of the world's most popular sport, football, as ambassadors? Said and done. The organisers of the Sports Festival, on the last day of the programme, had the fantastic intuition of bringing onto the field, in the rectangle set up in Piazza Fiera, some of the players who the previous afternoon had animated 'La Grande Partita' at the Briamasco, won by the Italian Postal Service on penalties.

   Publication date: 15/10/2023

   
8. Press releases

   Saudi Pro League, many champions aiming for World Cup 2034

   The new Eldorado of football. This is how, in one of its nice headlines, the Gazzetta defined the Saudi Pro League, also due to the fact that foreign players who play in it do not pay taxes. But the ambitions of the tournament that is revolutionising football go beyond the economic dimension, as was well understood this morning at the Festival dello Sport in a meeting featuring Carlo Nohra, executive head of the Arab league, Roberto Donadoni, who played in Saudi Arabia in 1999, and La7 journalist Cristina Fantoni.
   The Saudi Pro League has won the attention of the entire international football movement thanks also to a market that has brought about a hundred foreign players to Arabia, many of whom are still champions of the highest level such as Benzema, Neymar, Kanté, Kese, Brozovic, Milinkovic Savic and Gabri Veiga, who have joined Cristiano Ronaldo. A growing football movement that makes no secret of its great ambitions and which, according to many, has as its goal to host the World Cup in 2034.

   Publication date: 15/10/2023

   
9. Press releases

   Giuntoli, Juventus: 'We will return big but with sustainable football out of respect for those who work'

   As a Juventus fan this season, he sits inside the Juventus control room. Cristiano Giuntoli, the club's general manager, broke the ice at the Teatro Sociale by talking about his travels as a boy by coach from Prato, to watch football, the very Old Lady that he, and his family, have always supported: 'My first away trip as a boy to the stadium? A lot of rain caught with my father in Bologna, then I have a vivid memory of Pistoiese Juventus with a goal by Cuccureddu, where you couldn't cheer because you were away. I began to really love the team with Platini whose formation I remember (the play ed.) by heart. In the past there have been names like Del Piero, Baggio, Platini, Zidane'. A passage dedicated to his father: 'I miss sharing football moments with him. He would have been proud of my role, my mother still tells me, "How can you do it now in this delicate role...?" In the family even now, as then, they are all Juventus fans.

   Publication date: 15/10/2023

   
10. Press releases

    Datome and Johnson, how to become champions of life and champions of sport

    Now in its last day of events, the sports festival involved, among many other appointments, the public in Trento's Piazza Duomo to talk about several books focusing on professional athletes in the fields of basketball and cycling. Opening the meetings was former NBA champion Linton Johnson, who presented his book 'Get in the game'. A vademecum to encourage everyone, not just athletes, to draw on their inner strength to overcome daily challenges. The captain of the Italian national basketball team, Gigi Datome, transforms himself into a character from the comic book 'The Giant of the Court' and impersonates the coach of two young boys who dream of playing basketball. Datome teaches them to hold their own and strive in training, but also to develop courage and confidence in their teammates.

    Publication date: 15/10/2023

    
11. Press releases

    Two friends, two great champions

    Egonu and Sylla at the Sports Festival

    Publication date: 15/10/2023

    
12. Press releases

    Datome, Mancinelli, Moss: three basketball players in the hearts of the people

    A passion-filled Philharmonic welcomes three basketball champions fresh from retirement from playing basketball

    Publication date: 15/10/2023

    
13. Press releases

    All the Juventus pride of Andrea Barzagli and Claudio Marchisio

    The two champions among the protagonists of the Juventus of records

    Publication date: 14/10/2023

    
14. Press releases

    Messner and Viesturs, the Eight-Thousanders: 'Mountaineering doesn't need records and competitions'

    Reihold Messner and Ed Viesturs, who have been the protagonists of the media attention these days as to which of the two first climbed all 14 eight-thousanders, met for the first time thanks to The Sports Festival: 'We must not let the new generations lose the founding values and emotions of traditional mountaineering: reaching the summit means nothing, what counts is the journey, the journey, even the inner journey, pushing beyond one's own limits.

    Publication date: 14/10/2023

    
15. Press releases

    Tank challenges, feats on K2 and 'Olympic' love affairs

    Swimming, mountains and Olympics on Book Saturday

    Publication date: 14/10/2023

    
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    Nutrition as a determining factor for victory

    Trentino diver Francesca Dallapè and endocrinologist and nutritionist Alexis Elias Malavazos star in the talk 'I eat, therefore I win'.

    Publication date: 14/10/2023

    
17. Press releases

    Tortu, Patta and Rigali: full speed ahead to a memorable 2024

    At the 6th Festival dello Sport, Andrea Buongiovanni, journalist for Gazzetta dello Sport interviewed Lorenzo Patta, Filippo Tortu and Roberto Rigali, the Italian relay runners who, together with teammate Marcell Jacobs, won silver in the 4×100 relay at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest last August. It is a great new feat for Italian athletics, 40 years after the silver medal at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki, that came in the wake of the fantastic performance of the Italian quartet with Tortu's incredible split and a time of 37″62. An important medal that gives great hope for the Olympic Games to be held next summer in Paris, but even before that, for the European Athletics Championships in June in Rome.

    Publication date: 14/10/2023

    
18. Press releases

    'Objective3' promotes Inclusion with a docufilm and an international relay race

    Palazzo Geremia hosted the preview of 'Quello che manca' (What is missing), a docufilm that deals with the theme of sport and disability, highlighting three stories of three athletes from 'Obiettivo3'. This project to bring people with disabilities closer to sport was born a few years ago at the instigation of Alex Zanardi, who through his dream succeeded in profoundly transforming the perception of Paralympic sport.
    Eleonora Mele, Veronica Biglia and Gabriele Scalise, the athletes featured in the docufilm, told their stories, offering not only their own point of view, but also that of the people closest to them, companions, mothers and fathers. Their testimonies revealed the implications and consequences of unexpected events in life, such as illnesses or accidents, which inevitably come to disrupt everyday life.

    Publication date: 14/10/2023

    
19. Press releases

    A lesson from the 'Maestro': Andrea Pirlo, the champion of simple football

    At the Santa Chiara auditorium one of the highlights of the Sports Festival, the one with the 'Maestro' Andrea Pirlo. A simple football his, at least in appearance, but with important principles and values. An extraordinary career in which, stressed the Brescian talent, 'I have always played to win, not just to participate'. Now his coaching career has begun for him, with his experience at Juventus having already given him two trophies. "An idol? Roberto Baggio: class and elegance, an extraterrestrial,' Pirlo added. - The most beautiful trophy? The first Champions League final with AC Milan. And the enthusiasm around that match, just before arriving at the stadium, almost moved me'. During the event, there was also a video-message from Gianluigi Buffon.

    Publication date: 14/10/2023

    
20. Press releases

    Italian Post Office 'cancels' football legends

    For the first time in six editions of the Festival of Sport, which is invading Trento with no less than 150 events, there was space for played sport thanks to 'La Grande Partita' (The Big Game) of football in a sold-out Briamasco stadium. Facing each other were the Festival Legends, with no less than seven world champions on the pitch, of which five Italians and two Brazilians, and the national team of Poste Italiane, coached by former Juventus player Angelo Di Livio.
    The outcome was decidedly unexpected, with success for the Poste Italiane's Gialloblù (the same colours as the Trento football team) team, which triumphed after a hard-fought match, dominated in the first of the two 30-minute periods, and decided on penalties.

    Publication date: 14/10/2023