1st Basket&Beach: basketball goes on holiday to Lignano Sabbiadoro

Basket&Beach in Lignano Sabbiadoro
After several summers in Udine, for the first year the association Digiemme brings the basketball on the beach of Lignano, more exactly in Piazza Marcello D’Olivo in Lignano Pineta. A wonderful square surrounded by the most famous cafés of the Movida in Lignano and with the blue sea and the golden beach in the background.
The plan of the association is to move to the beach the basketball and the fun of these tournaments with young athletes and fans coming from Friuli and other regions giving a very special shows to tourists in holiday in Lignano Sabbiadoro.
The first match took place July the 10th with the 12° Malagoli Memorial, that in Udine is considered a kind of festival. Also in Lignano it had a great success of spectators, with a lot of tourists and fans of basketball that thronged the steps on Sunday evening. The excellent organisation contributed to this success: very good players from different regions, music, the coloured truck of the region Friuli Venezia Giulia, free ice-cream and the chance to buy photos and t-shirts of the tournament.
For this reason there is a big expectation and agitation for the second match of Basket&Beach, with the 1° “Solo Sport Friuli tv” Trophy. From Friday, July 31st, to Sunday, August 2nd, Piazza Marcello D’Olivo in Lignano Pineta will change again into an outdoors basketball field with a Tartan floor and this time will be the ladies the protagonists of this meeting. Events not to miss are the contest of three-point shot on Saturday evening, the finals for the third place and the super finals for the first place on Sunday evening. Also for this week end, music, videos, ice-cream and stands will frame this big sporting event.
In a mix of basketball, tourism and a lot of fun, “Solo Sport Friuli tv” Trophy waits for all guests that throng the beach and the apartments of Lignano for a week end rich in sport.
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