Brindisi, Fabio Corbani is the new coach: official

Brindisi, Fabio Corbani is the new coach: official

Happy Casa Brindisi announced in a statement that it has entrusted the biancoazzurra bench to Fabio Corbani, formerly the assistant coach during the last sports season.

“An experienced coach endowed with great passion, competence and personality, he marked his debut as Happy Casa’s head coach on May 19 on the occasion of the last official game of the season in the playoffs scudetto against Virtus Bologna, replacing the disqualified Frank Vitucci on the bench.”

“For him it is a return as head coach in Serie A, when in the first part of the 2015/16 season he led Pallacanestro Cantù in the LBA and Europe Cup until the change of foreign ownership.”

“An expert connoisseur of youth basketball, he holds the record of four junior championships won in ten years, recognized by the 2009 Reverberi Award for the youth section (Treviso) and the title of ‘Benemerito Coach’ by the Italian Basketball Federation in 2016.”

“From 1991 to 1999 he served as head of the youth section in his hometown of Milan, with prestigious results such as two junior championships (1997-98) At Olimpia he joined the first team as an assistant (1997-99), hitting the Serie A playoffs and a Saporta Cup final in both seasons.”

“From 2006 to 2010 he moved to Treviso as head of the youth sector and assistant to Blatt, Vitucci and Repesa (in 2006-2007 he won the Italian Cup and the Euroleague Top 16). Piacenza in the 2011/12 season, Biella 2013-2015 where he won the Italian Legadue Cup, in Rome with Virtus (2016/17, where he holds the record for the best attack in Serie A2 in the last decade) and Eurobasket (2018/19) and finally Orzinuovi in 2019/2020 the last experiences as head coach.”

“During his career he has also worked in the national team in the role of assistant coach Under 20, winning the gold medal at the 2013 European Championships in Tallinn and the silver medal in Bilbao 2011, and on the coaching staff of the Swiss national team in the Eurobasket 2022 qualifying matches.”