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Outlook: Italy’s revolutionary basketball team

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Massimo Antonelli

06/03/2023 GMT

Italy’s revolutionary basketball team

BBC World Service - Outlook, Italy’s revolutionary basketball team

Massimo Antonelli set up team Tam Tam, and blazed a trail for 'foreign' kids in sport

Coach Massimo Antonelli set up youth team Tam Tam in a mafia-riddled town in Italy, and blazed a trail for 'foreign' kids in sport.

Coach Massimo Antonelli set up youth team 'Tam Tam' in Castel Volturno, a town in the South of Italy which is home to thousands of migrants, and plagued by criminal gangs. His players soon caught the basketball bug, dunking and dribbling themselves into great competitors. But when he went to sign up one of his squads to a regional championship, a limit on players deemed to be 'foreign' threatened to dash their hoop dreams forever. So, Massimo and his team started a campaign, eventually managing to get themselves back on the court, and driving a new law that transformed children’s access to sport in Italy forever. 

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Presenter: Mobeen Azhar.
Producers: Deiniol Buxton, Olivia Lynch-Kelly and Gaia Caramazza.

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(Photo: Basketball coach Massimo Antonelli and one of Tam Tam's players dunking a ball through a hoop on their court in Castel Volturno, Italy. Credit: Giovanni Izzo)

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