Minneapolis is a city in the United States of America, the capital of the state of Minnesota. It is located on the banks of the Mississippi, just north of the confluence with the Minnesota River. For a few years now it's home to the strongest women's basketball team on the planet, the cool Minnesota Lynx WNBA champions and winners of four titles in the past seven years.
This year even a small piece of Italy participated in the party. One of the members of the Lynx roster was indeed Cecilia Zandalasini.
For the uninitiated, the twenty-one year old from Broni (PV) is a blue basketball player, a 185 cm winger who at the moment is perhaps the best player in our country. At the recent European championships played in the Czech Republic she was included in the ideal quintet of the tournament despite Italy having placed only seventh (it had never happened to a player of a team so far behind in the standings). In the Italian league she plays for Famila Schio and at the end of August this year she signs for the Minnesota team becoming the seventh Italian player to fly overseas. When it arrives in America, the Lynx are in full swing towards the playoffs. During the playoffs they easily impose themselves until the final, here things are less simple but the Mississippi girls manage to beat the Sparks of Los Angeles 3-2. Zandalasini becomes the second Italian to win a WNBA title after Pollini champion with the Houston Comets in 1997.
For Cecilia, who grew up on bread and basketball in the myth of Kobe Bryant, her first overseas experience was like living a dream. On the day of his arrival in Minneapolis on his Instagram profile he writes: “I wake up, I look at the time, it's half past five. It is dark outside, but not too dark. Dawn is coming, my favorite. I wonder why I'm already awake, why I can't sleep anymore. The alarm is at 5, but I don't remember what to do. As I think about it the room lights up, the sun rises and this is not my room where I am. I get up, running, I have a moment of panic. I look out the window: skyscrapers. Minneapolis. Minnesota. America. I go out on the balcony. it's cold, but I don't care. I'm in America. I close my eyes and take a deep breath. I was just a little girl who wanted to imitate her brother with a basketball. I was just a little girl when I picked up the ball. Now look where I am. The dream is real. "
In his first experience WNBA Cecilia did not have the opportunity to tread the field for many minutes, but she was with the best, she trained with them and breathed the air of competition at the highest level. An incredible experience that will come in handy if she is called to play next WNBA season, and will be, with a more starring role. For now he will focus on his Famila trying to lead it to the Scudetto, then he will be able to continue his dream ...
