JUNIOR INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT “CITTA’ DI LISSONE” JIT 2012, welcoming y APL and CAP are honoured to present the 20th Edition of Junior International Tournament “Città di Lissone” –JIT 2012 ‐ open to Teams of Club category Under 19 (players born in 1993‐94). JIT 2012, when y JIT 2012 will be played from April 6th to April 9th 2012 (Easter Holiday) in Lissone, 15 km far from Milano, north part of Italy. y APL and CAP also organise in the same period the 5th edition of KIT, the International Tournament for Kids teams born in 2000. JIT, concept y JIT concept is very easy: “to organize a great event for the best and well‐ known team of club coming from the strongest basketball nation”. y Since 1993 teams from all the World attended our tournament: Italy, Spain, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Argentina, U.S.A., Canada, Venezuela, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Rep., Slovak Republic, Russia, Israel, Lebanon, Greece, Turkey, Slovenia, FYROM, Ungheria, Belgium, Lussemburgo and Montenegro. JIT, story y JIT had his first edition in 1993 with 6 participating teams. Since 2000, with the 9th edition, JIT has stably grown up to 16‐18 participating teams. In last three edition participating teams were 12. The next will be the 20th Edition. y KIT last one was the fourth edition, the present one shall be the 4th for kids born in 2000 and following JIT, where y With the management of APL and CAP several clubs, situated in towns close to Lissone (15 km far from Milan, north part of Italy) are cooperating in the success of JIT, by placing their internal organization, halls and accommodation facilities at JIT disposal. y It is important to say that more than 200 voluntaries are contributing to the success of the JIT. They all have various roles, such as reception, transportation, restaurant service. We underline the importance of the host families, who give hospitality to the athletes participating to JIT. JIT, Olympus passes through Lissone y On our web site you may find the names of the Athletes who have taken their first steps in JIT in Lissone and who have afterwards taken the track to celebrity, in the various National League or in NCAA or better in NBA. In the present page you can get a glance on the top players who steps from JIT to NBA… “from here to the eternity”… Goran Giricek, Vladimir Radmanovic, Coach Simone Pianigiani, JIT 1993 JIT 1998 JIT 2005 Chris Quinn, JIT 2002 Andrea Bargnani, JIT 2003 Danilo Gallinari, JIT 2004 Daequan CooK, JIT 2004 JIT, media y Year after year JIT importance is massively growing even the television networks have been interested in JIT. In addition to the regional television networks Italia 7 and Telenova, even national networks like Rai, Mediaset, SKY and SI SportItalia‐ have now windows on JIT performances. Final 2010 had been also transmitted on Rai Sport Sat. y In addition since last year the web TV “Star Channel” joined JIT in a fruitful cooperation which brought all the 28 matches of past 19th edition on the web on: “www.starchannell.it” JIT, media and press y Reports and news will not be missing in main basketball magazines, such as: Superbasket, Dream Team ( Media partner for 2005 edition). y National newspapers ‐ Corriere della Sera and Gazzetta dello Sport –as well as local newspapers will talk of JIT. y An exciting and evocative JIT presentation also on Youtube JIT, web and social network y As far as the web site is concerned, our site www.apl‐cap.it during the JIT period is practically besieged. In the diagram you can see the pick of contacts: more than 16.000 pages have been visited during the tournament period. As well as a dedicated page on Facebook and other social networks. JIT, media y Dedicated forums are as well a sort of window onto JIT. During the latest edition of JIT more than 15.000 contacts visited the dedicated forums and blog (www.basket.forumfree.net); y JIT poster street wall and not last, JIT magazine, published in 4000 copies, important to know everything about the tournament, teams, history of JIT and the advertising spaces of our sponsors, and professional single match DVD’s as a milestone of the event. JIT, records y Cheering fans and people are still growing. We estimated that in the past edition more than 12.000 people supported the different teams in the 45 matches. On the Final 2008 the Arena in Monza was crowded with more than 3.000 people. JIT, direct advertising y JIT can be considered as a good vehicle for any type of marketing and sponsoring by several dedicated means to be managed by the Partner for sale and promotion good and / or services: y by means of advertising panels exposed in the various gyms or on videowall. y on our web site www.apl‐cap.it by means of banners; y by means of advertising panels exposed in the various gyms or on videowall; y by means of advertising shirts to be worn by the teams during the warm‐up period; JIT, partners and supporters Since 1993 main sponsors, like & in the past selected JIT as vehicle for their advertising campaign. JIT, golden roll 19° Torneo Int. Juniores 2011 “CITTA’ DI LISSONE” Memorial Giancarlo Bellosi Classifica finale: 1° U.S. Elite-Select (U.S.A.) 7° Basket Antibes (Francia) 2° Crabs Rimini (Italia) 8°KK Panda Belgrado (Serbia) 3° United Toronto (Canada) 9° Vanoli Cremona (Italia) 4° KK Kastav Rjieka (Croazia) 10° Robur Varese (Italia) 5° USK Praga (Rep. Ceca) 11° Bluceleste (Italia) 6° Endesa Tenerife (Spagna) 12° Tessilform Lissone (Italia) KIT, golden roll 1° Kids International Tournament 2008 “CITTA’ DI LISSONE” Classifica finale: 1st Marciulionis BA (Lituania) 2nd Case D'autore Lissone 3rd Argentia Gongorzola 4th Forti E Liberi Monza 5th Blu Orobica 6th Asa Cinisello 7th Aurora Rima Desio 8th Juvi Cremona 2° Kids International Tournament 2009 “CITTA’ DI LISSONE” Classifica finale: 1st Cap Lissone 2nd Juvi Cremona 3rd Us Piani Bolzano 4th Selezione Provinciale Bergamo 3° Kids International Tournament 2010 “CITTA’ DI LISSONE” Classifica finale: 1st Cap Coocon Lissone 2nd Csc Cusano 3nd Egaleo Atene 4th Asm 70 Pezzini Morbegno 5th U.S. Piani Bolzano 6th Sel. Provinciale Bergamo 7th Usk Future Stars Praga 8th Dukes Basket San Sepolcro 4° Kids International Tournament 2011 “TOYS ‘R US” Classifica finale: 1st Kk Rieka 2nd C.A.P. Coocon Lissone 3nd C.G.B. Brugherio 4th Usk Future Star Praha 5th Gs Basket Sovico 6thu.S.P. Bolzano JIT, contact and info y Associazione Pallacanestro Lissone via Don Minzoni, 55 –20851 Lissone (MB) Telefono / Fax 039‐480379 Email: info@apl‐cap.it Sito: www.apl‐cap.it y Andrea Grazioli, mobile 339‐3340506 y Roberto Lissoni, mobile 348‐5323485.