The italian championship will start next 13 April with the opening game between Parma and Grosseto.
9 teams will play to win the title ,the famous "scudetto".
Italian Champion is Fortitudo Bologna (sponsor Italeri) that will try to defend the title vs Grosseto (European champion) ,Nettuno,Rimini,Parma and San Marino (the best teams).
Grosseto looks very good even if they have lost Italian-american David Rollandini that signed for american AA.
Every team can sign a maximum of 5 strangers,but italian-americans thanks to their italian citizenship can play as italian so the league is full of americans with italian heritage.
This year there are a lot of players with MLB and AAA experience.
here you can read the import players
Grosseto for example,that will try to defend his european title in June hosting european serieshas signed 3B Tony Torcato (last year with Giants in MLB) Victor Gutierrez (AAA experience) Valera Yohanny , Rene Miniel
and Jaime Navarro (all with MLB experience).
Grosseto has italian ace Riccardo de Santis and signed ita-ame Gino
Lollio,a great OF for italian championship.
Bologna is strong too,they have 5 very good dominicans (Jesus Matos last year was the best pitcher of the league) and the best italians (Liverziani,Dallospedale,Pantaleoni) and 2 ita-ame pitchers like Todd Incantalupo and Fabio Milano.
Bologna has solid pitching,great defense they will try to win the european series and the italian championship again.
Links :www.fibs.it
To watch some games try ON THURSDAY this link at 10 PM (ita hour) looking for italian tv RAI SPORTS : http://wwitv.com/portal.htm
9 teams will play to win the title ,the famous "scudetto".
Italian Champion is Fortitudo Bologna (sponsor Italeri) that will try to defend the title vs Grosseto (European champion) ,Nettuno,Rimini,Parma and San Marino (the best teams).
Grosseto looks very good even if they have lost Italian-american David Rollandini that signed for american AA.
Every team can sign a maximum of 5 strangers,but italian-americans thanks to their italian citizenship can play as italian so the league is full of americans with italian heritage.
This year there are a lot of players with MLB and AAA experience.
here you can read the import players
Grosseto for example,that will try to defend his european title in June hosting european serieshas signed 3B Tony Torcato (last year with Giants in MLB) Victor Gutierrez (AAA experience) Valera Yohanny , Rene Miniel
and Jaime Navarro (all with MLB experience).
Grosseto has italian ace Riccardo de Santis and signed ita-ame Gino
Lollio,a great OF for italian championship.
Bologna is strong too,they have 5 very good dominicans (Jesus Matos last year was the best pitcher of the league) and the best italians (Liverziani,Dallospedale,Pantaleoni) and 2 ita-ame pitchers like Todd Incantalupo and Fabio Milano.
Bologna has solid pitching,great defense they will try to win the european series and the italian championship again.
Links :www.fibs.it
To watch some games try ON THURSDAY this link at 10 PM (ita hour) looking for italian tv RAI SPORTS : http://wwitv.com/portal.htm
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