From Baseball.it arrives us news that an Italian, who now lives on Tenerife, plans to create a European Winter League at the Canary Island, profiting from the year-long perfect weather. Fabrizio Ludovisi was born in Nettuno and played in Italy before coming to Tenerife to join the Marlins Puerto Cruz as a player and later as a coach. Now he is one of the founders of the “Baseball Academy 2010” initiative, which aims to train players to get them to sign with European teams. However the big goal is a European Winter League.
Update 4/14 (Translation of press release, which you can find below):
The Tenerife Marlins Puerto Cruz released a press statement on Thursday that they are welcoming all projects that help the development of Baseball in the world and especially in the Canary Islands. They have done this for the past eleven years. But at the same time they say on record that there is no link or relationship with Fabrizio Ludovisi. They are not informed, nor do they have any interest in projects that are not along the guidelines of the Marlins Puerto Cruz organization. They have made this statement because the Marlins front office and its staff refuse to be involved (directly or indirectly) in shares of people who have no type of connection to their organization.
Press Release Tenerife Marlins:
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“LOS MARLINS DE TENERIFE ven con muy buenos ojos todos aquellos proyectos que signifiquen el desarrollo del béisbol en cualquier parte del mundo y especialmente en Canarias…De hecho, por eso tenemos once años de limpia y sobresaliente trayectoria dentro y fuera del terreno de juego. Pero al mismo tiempo, debemos dejar constancia que actualmente y desde hace un buen tiempo, no existe ningún tipo de nexo y/o relación con Fabrizio Ludovisi. Y obviamente no estamos informados, ni tenemos ningún tipo de interés en situaciones que no lleven una organización acorde con las líneas directrices de los Marlins de Puerto de La Cruz, Tenerife, Canarias. Hacemos esta manifestación porque la Directiva Marlins y su Cuerpo Técnico rechazan por completo el estar involucrados (directa o indirectamente) en acciones de personas que no tienen ningún tipo de nexo con nuestra organización.