Presentation of the European Cadets and Junior Championships Foggia2019 at IT - Milan International Tourism Exchange2019.
MILANO - "We are ready for an event that will involve the whole territory and that has been strongly desired from the territory". With these words, the President of the Organizing Committee of the European Cadets and Junior Championships Foggia2019 started the presentation of the event, which took place on Monday 11 February as part of the BIT - Milan International Tourism Exchange2019. At the presentation were the Councilor for Culture of City of Foggia, Anna Paola Giuliani, Giovanni Pennisi, Special Commissioner of the Foggia Fair, and the Councilor of the Italian Fencing Federation, Alberto Ancarani. "In Foggia wait is growing - said Mrs. Giuliani -. We are waiting for an event that not only awards a sport particularly in vogue in our city, such as fencing, but above all represents an opportunity to redeem the image of this territory and promote tourism". In Foggia, from February 22 to March 3 will be over 1200 athletes, coming from 43 European countries, which will face to win 24 continental titles. "The Foggia Fair is making a new look - underlined the Special Commissioner of the fair, Giovanni Pennisi - because we need to adapt the spaces to a sporting event that will be a great occasion for the Foggia area. We are working hard to support the Committee. organizer, so that every logistic detail is ready and above all to welcome in the best way the foreign delegations in a site, such as that of the Foggia Fair, which has the particularity: to be in the heart of the city". "The passion of organizing committee and his enthusiasm are commendable and make us expect that the European Cadet and Junior Championships will live up to their expectations - said the Federal Councilor, Alberto Ancarani - We as a Italian Fencing Federation support the Organizing Committee, but we are also working to bring to Foggia the best expression of Italian youth fencing because, when hosting an event in Italy, for us there is not only organizing work but also the honor and the "responsibility" to demonstrate, in home, the value of our fencing system".
