Pisa Sporting Club returns to the Aoup Blood Center, with Samuele Angori and Francesco Coppola representing the team as ambassadors to raise public awareness about the importance of donating blood and blood components, thereby promoting the value of solidarity through sports.
The two Nerazzurri were welcomed by Alessandro Mazzoni, Director of the Aoup’s Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Biology Unit, along with his staff; Arianna Precisi or Procissi, Director of the Aoup’s Departmental Transplant Laboratory Section; and representatives from various local donor associations.
“Giving is a fundamental act of generosity,” explained Mazzoni, For a surgical hospital of this size and high specialization like the Aoup, where transplants and life-saving therapies using blood products are performed, and where blood components are processed, validated, and stored—since the regional blood bank is centralized here, right next to our collection site. We therefore need everyone’s contribution to ensure that this powerful organizational machine remains fully operational every day and that we support one another in the event of shortages. Thank you, then, for your support. “.
“Just think: in Italy, 8,000 people are waiting for a transplant, but we’re only able to perform transplants on a third of them,” said Precisi or Procissi. “We must therefore make a concerted effort at the institutional level to do even more for all those people who are waiting in the hope of a better life.”
This initiative by Pisa Sporting Club is part of the club’s ongoing commitment to sustainability and social responsibility and forms part of a much broader project called “Together We Are”