Official: Gianmarco Pozzecco is the new coach of the Italian men's basketball team. This was announced by the Italian Basketball Federation.
The former Dinamo Sassari coach, born in 1972, took over from Meo Sacchetti , another old acquaintance of Sassari basketball and is the 22nd coach of the senior men's national team.
In blue, as a player, Pozzecco won the silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games . In total, with the national team he collected 84 appearances and 595 points from 1994 to 2005, also participating in the 1998 World Cup in Greece and the EuroBasket 2005 in Serbia.
His coaching career began in 2012 on the Orlandina bench, a team that led up to the playoff final of the then Legadue. After coaching Varese in Serie A, he moved to Croatia to assist Veljko Mrsic at Cedevita Zagreb in the Euroleague, returning to Italy on the Fortitudo Bologna bench in A2.
In 2019 he arrives in Sassari , where he wins the Fiba Europe Cup and the Super Cup
Italian also hitting the final of the Serie A championship, then lost in game-7 against Venice.
(Unioneonline / lf)
