Gianmarco Pozzecco pushes Panathinaikos away.

Pozzecco pushes Panathinaikos away

Azzurri coach Gianmarco Pozzecco spoke on the sidelines of the presentation of the new national team jerseys, dismissing market rumors that Panathinaikos is on his trail: “I don’t have time to think about anything else. The truth is that something unexpected happened to me, not that I did not want to become a father, but because my wife and I had a stormy path and now we are happy to have crowned our dream of having a daughter. I’m already struggling this week because I have to make sure these boys honor the blue jersey, so I don’t have time to think about other things right now.”

“Last year in Berlin during the European Championships, Achille Polonara’s baby was born and I told him to go home to his wife, but he decided not to leave the team,” Pozzecco continued. “Today, that I am a father, I understand the sacrifice that one of my boys made for the Azzurri jersey. President Petrucci had told me how excited I would be to hear the anthem as a coach. In Trieste, I understood that he had told the truth.”