A wrong shot in the final, a missed basket at 17.
A mistake that is part of sport and that many, even much more famous than her, have committed in matches where there was much more at stake.
But for her coach it was a mistake to be punished with a slap.
There is a storm on what happened on Sunday during the final for the 3 / o and 4 / o place of the Serie B women's basketball championship, with the video of the scene already going viral on social media, the requests for radiation for the coach, the apologies from the latter and also the intervention of the girl's family.
The scene of the episode is the PalaSojourner in Rieti where the Serie B play-offs are played between Basket Roma and Aran Cucine Roseto.
In front of all the spectators, coach Luciano Bongiorno, 51, first verbally lashes out at the athlete who had approached the bench and then lets off a slap that hits her behind the head.
Someone films the whole scene and in a few hours the video makes the rounds of social media.
The company's Facebook page was immediately targeted by criticism of the coach.
"Congratulations to the girls, coaches to be disqualified, I hope sports justice and not only intervene" writes a fan;
"shameful - adds another - I hope that serious measures will be taken".
The company has released a note in which it defines the gesture as "deplorable" and "apologizes for what happened, first of all with the athlete and his family, whose privacy we ask to respect".
The episode, he adds, "took place in a moment of competitive tension" and "it should have been handled differently." He too, the coach, apologized for what happened: "I have known the athlete since he was six years old. .
I entered the field with the game stopped to spur her on, with a body language that was too violent "he admits. But then he denies the slap, claiming to have made" a gesture that from the images appears different from what it actually was, that is a pat on the hair tail. "And it could really have gone like this, according to the girl's mother who, again on the company's Fb page, asks for the" media storm "to end and talks about gestures that" can be misunderstood, if you don't know the relationship ":" My daughter is very calm - he adds - We know Luciano and we have an excellent relationship and he is like a second father for my daughter ".
Meanwhile, however, the president of Federbasket Gianni Petrucci, makes it known that he "dutifully" activated the Federal Prosecutor: "We condemn without hesitation what happened. Slapping your own athlete is never justifiable and does not belong to sport - he underlines - my way of conceiving it ".
Difference Donna Aps and Assist National Athletes Association are also asking for the intervention of the president of Coni, Giovanni Malagò, so that - they underline - the coach of Basketball Roma "is immediately disbarred and no longer has the opportunity to practice the profession".
