Gianmarco Pozzecco has been officially proclaimed as the new coach of the Italian national team. The decision became public with a press release issued by the Italian Basketball Federation. The Poz happens to Meo Sacchettifor which among other things he played in the last career season in Capo d’Orlando.
The presentation to the press of the new technical commissioner will take place tomorrow (Friday 3 June) at 2.30 pm at the Hotel Principe di Savoia, in Milan. Pozzecco will make his debut on 25 June in the friendly in Trieste against Slovenia (which should have both Luka Doncic that Goran Dragic for the occasion). The first official match, on the other hand, is that of Almere on 4 July, where the Azzurri will challenge the Netherlands in qualifying for the World Cup.
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Born in Gorizia, the player Pozzecco was an idol of crowds wherever he went, between Udine, Livorno, Varese, Fortitudo Bologna, Khimki Mosca and Capo d’Orlando. As a coach he made his debut in the latter company, taking it up to the final of the playoffs of the then LegaDue. Then the return to Varese, then Cedevita Zagreb as assistant to the former teammate in red and white Veljko Mrsicfundamental man in the scudetto of the star in that of Masnago.
He later coached Fortitudo Bologna in A2, then, in 2019, he took over Vincenzo Esposito to Dinamo Sassari, dragging the Sardinian club up to the championship final lost in game-7 against Reyer Venezia, but winning both the FIBA Europe Cup and the Italian Super Cup. In this last year he was, and still is, assistant to Ettore Messina at Olimpia Milano.
In the national team, Pozzecco played 84 games scoring 595 points, covering a period of time between 1994 and 2005 and participating in the 1998 World Cup in Greece, the 2005 European Championships in Serbia, but above all at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, for what was the second blue silver medal in history.
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