Ristopro Janus Basket Fabriano is pleased to announce that Andrea Niccolai will be the Head Coach of the biancoblu also for the 2024/25 season.
A CV that needs no introduction: an entire career as a player between Serie A1, A2 and the Italian national team, complete with winning the Scudetto and Super Cup with the Treviso shirt. One of the few Italian players to be able to boast a call for a tryout (not materialized) from the NBA, in particular from the Golden State Warriors. Furthermore, Andrea has already moved to the city of paper in 2005, when he played 8 games with the Fabriano Basket jersey.
Having finished a very long career as a basketball player with over ten thousand points scored in professional championships (6th Italian place ever), he began his career as a coach on the Monsummano bench as deputy to another Fabriano acquaintance, Alessandro Fantozzi. Fantozzi was then sacked, and Niccolai took his place, managing to lead the team to safety. In the following season Niccolai remained in Monsummano and finished the championship in ninth place, almost making the play-offs. In 2016 he took over as coach of Fiorentina Basket in Serie B during the current season, remaining there until the end of the 2018-2019 season. Subsequently he coaches Pino Dragons Firenze, another club from the Tuscan capital, newly promoted to Serie B.
In the summer of 2020 he moved to Pallacanestro Biella in Serie A2 as assistant to Iacopo Squarcina, holding the position for two championships, until the Piedmontese renounced their membership in the summer of 2022. In January 2023 he joined the technical staff of Pallacanestro Mantovana of Serie A2, where he still holds the position of assistant coach.
Finally the transfer to Fabriano, 19 years after the last time, where Niccolai does an excellent job taking over in January: he takes on a discouraged team, in 10th place, dragging them up to 4th and also beating Gema Montecatini in the first round of the play-offs .
The keys to the team are still in Andrea’s hands and the club can only wish him the best of success, once again on the white and blue bench.
Janus Basket Fabriano Press Office
2024-06-23 14:34:45
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