Gianmarco Pozzecco is the new coach of the Italian senior men’s basketball team. This was announced by the Italian Basketball Federation.
Pozzecco’s debut on the Azzurra bench will take place on June 25th in Trieste during the friendly match that Italbasket will play against Slovenia. The first official match in Almere on 4 July against the Netherlands in the last match of the first qualifying phase for the FIBA World Cup 2023. In August the friendlies against France (12 August in Bologna and 16 August in Montpellier), Serbia and Germany or Czech Republic (19th and 20th at the Hamburg tournament) and the two official matches against opponents to be defined in the first “window” of the second qualifying phase for the 2023 World Cup.
From 1 to 18 September the EuroBasket 2022 (2/8 September preliminary round at the Milano Forum). Born in Gorizia on September 15, 1972, Gianmarco Pozzecco is the 22nd coach of the men’s senior national team. 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.