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Alessandro Fontana from Brescia, born in 1984, is the new assistant coach of Famila Schio. After his three-year experience as a coach on the Pf Broni 93 bench, the young coach will work alongside the Greeks Georgios Dikaioulakos and Petros Prekas, respectively head coach and deputy of the orange, one of the most successful clubs in the Italian women’s basketball scene, with 10 championships. , 12 Italian Cup, 11 National Super Cup, 2 Ronchetti Cup and one EuroCup Women. La Famila will be involved both in the league, where it will try to snatch the scudetto from Umana Reyer Venezia, from which it was defeated in the last play off final (3-2 for the orogranata), and in the Euroleague: the Vicenza team will play a preliminary tournament between 20 and 24 September against the French side of Tango Bourges and the Spanish side of Valencia. The winner of the group, whose calendar will be announced in Freising (Germany) on Thursday 19 August, will enter the top continental competition; while the other two will be “relegated” to EuroCup Women conference 2, the second European club event. Alessandro Fontana will be able to work alongside a coach of international experience. In fact Dikaioulakos, born in 1969 (two-year contract with option for the third), boasts experiences in Greece (with Athinaikos he did not lose a game in two consecutive seasons at the beginning of the 2000s), Poland (Gydnia and Polkowice), Turkey (Fenerbahçe), Romania (Targoviste), China (Shanxi Flame), Russia (Orenburg), as well as the national teams of Greece and Latvia. «I am looking forward to experimenting with a new working model of the Scledense staff which is of the highest level. – these are the first words of coach Fontana on the Famila Schio website – I am honored to be able to work alongside international champions and to experience basketball with them at 360 degrees: I believe it will be a daily exchange of ideas and experiences for a path of growth. Schio is one of the most important players in the championship and in Europe: it will be a very high level formation for me ». –
FRANCO SCABROSETTI