The first summer handball camp was held at the well known Villaggio Arenella Resort in Siracusa, under Peppe Vinci’s management. It lasted five days, twenty-two small Albatro players took part, looked after, from the technical point of view, by Tone Medved, Alessandro Fusina and Luigi Rudilosso. There was also great enthusiasm on the part of parents, who have already “booked” for the next Campus. The work with the young players was intense, with the association also being involved in the organization of two “Minihandball Albatro Challenges”, dedicated to all its members, and two other ”Minihandball City Challenges” disputed between Agrigento and Siracusa with the
youngsters of Mascalucia taking part. Hundreds of children rose to the challenge on the playing field, putting into practice what they had learnt from the handball courses. On the youth front, there was also the third place won in the regional finals of the Under 18 team and the second place of the Under 14s. There was also great enthusiasm for the closing event of “Progetti Mani 2011”, the multidisciplinary social activity in which the association works in the local primary schools. More than 200 children invaded the “Concetto Lo Bello” Palasport, together with their parents, relatives, teachers and the general public who followed the event, which included music, theatre and of course sport, with a demonstration of Minihandball. There was also good news about the first team which, whilst strongly renewed with the arrival of many players from the youth clubs, deservedly reached an excellent sixth
final place, ensuring that it stays in the A1 league championship. Next year will be special for the team trained by Tone Medved: after the goodbye of the Argentineans Nando Garcia and Gonzalo Viscovich, the young Siracusa team, with at its head the cousins Andrea and Mattia Calvo and the assistance of the “experts” Christophe Zuniga, Alessandro Fusina and Alessandri Vasquez in the goal, will have to give decisive proof of their maturity. This is the challenge Teamnetwork Albatro Siracusa faces in the near future.
