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05 Apr 2016
Dinamo Sassari giants in Alghero’s prison: stories of men, basketball and missed champions.

A prison guard opens the door to come into the prison. Just him can do it. David Logan crosses aisles surrounded of old and small inmates’ rooms dribbling. The sound of the ball is regular. After passing through gates and passageways, David, Matteo Formenti and Paolo Citrini arrive to the open-space of the prison in which there are different sports’ fields and the wall is painted from inmates of these last decades.

Inmates are waiting the guests inside the library for the second One Team’s meeting. This time the key word is “Creativity”. Paolo, the One Team coach and assistant coach of the first team, breaks the ice talking about the team, especially about how much creativity and imagination are important to feed motivation and passion. >. Discussion is lively, goes out key word’s tracks for coming back again. People from different ages and nationalities take part of the conversation, everyone driven by his experience and point of view. Living years in a closed space leads you to use a lot imagination and creativity for thinking about the future, ways in which to have a 2nd opportunity or simply to plan different things to pass the day in the best way.

The most loquacious prisoner says: >.

Matteo tells his experience: >. One of the youngest inmates takes the floor: nd chance for us and our family. This desire gives a sense to our current time>>.

Another inmate asks to the Dinamo Sassari guard, David Logan, how he expresses his creativity, which kind of things incentive him. >.

Time goes fast and the discussion is longer than prevision as happened in the first One Team meeting but nobody is worried for the pleasantness of the conversation. But right now there isn’t so much time to play. Everyone goes to the nice basketball court surrounded by cameras. The One Team coach organizes a shooting lesson, explained by David and Matteo. There is a 3points contest from 9 meters. The winner is an inmate from South-America. He migrated to Italy when he was a child and he played in the youth basketball team of Reyer Venezia. Then, his life got a different path. Now he is 34 years old and he’s in the Alghero’s prison from 3 years. But he always plays basketball, today with David Logan and Matteo Formenti, with the Italian champions, with One Team.