Nicola applauds an action in the match played by the GBC in Burgos last season. /
The former Gipuzkoa Basket coach signs to get the legendary Transalpine team out of a bad situation
The former coach of Acunsa Gipuzkoa Basket, Marcelo Nicola, has taken charge of the Nutribullet Treviso of the Italian League, after dismissing his coach Massimiliano Mennetti due to the poor performance of the team. It so happens that the Argentine coach lives in that Italian town and was also a legend as a player in the years he spent at the legendary Pallaverde.
Nicola had been without a team since he left Gipuzkoa Basket at the end of last season, a difficult year that ended with relegation from the ACB. The Rafaelino was god courses at the head of the Gipuzkoan bench, in the first he obtained promotion from the LEB Oro league, in that competition cut short by the pandemic and in which ten games remained to be played. At the end of the competition with Valladolid and GBC tied, it was decided, not without pressure and great work in the offices of Gipuzkoa Basket, that both teams be promoted. Valladolid did not achieve the required minimum and could not achieve promotion, while Gipuzkoa Basket did, even knowing that it was going to be a very complicated season, as it was.
In that year in the ACB, Marcelo Nicola had to direct all the matches without an audience and could only get 7 matches out of the 36 that the Gipuzkoan team played in a competition with 19 teams. Nicola has the challenge of saving Treviso, one of the classics of the Italian Pallacanestro, which is third from last in the table with a balance of 9 wins and 14 losses, only one above the first team that descends, which is another transalpine basketball classic : the Fortitudo of Bologna. Nicola will debut with his new team next Sunday at seven in the evening against Openjobmetis from Varese, who are in ninth position in the Lega.
