ROME – Born in Gorizia on September 15, 1972, Gianmarco Pozzecco is the 22nd coach of the senior men’s national team and succeeds Meo Sacchetti.
In Azzurro, as a player, he won the Silver Medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. 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 in 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 having coached 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 at Dinamo Sassari, where he wins the FIBA Europe Cup and the Italian Super Cup, also hitting the final of the Serie A championship, then lost in race-7 against Venice. In the 2021/2022 season he is Ettore Messina’s assistant on the Olimpia Milano bench who wins the 2022 Italian Cup.
His career as an athlete began in Udine in 1991 (in A2 and in the then B d’Eccellenza). After a year in Livorno he moved to Varese, where he remained from 1994 to 2002, winning the Scudetto in the 1998/1999 season and the Italian Super Cup in 1999. He also wore the jerseys of Fortitudo Bologna (2002/2005), Zaragoza (2005), Khimki Mosca (2005/2007) and Capo d’Orlando (2007/2008), the team with which he ended his career as a player.
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