Meo Sacchetti, revelation about Ettore Messina in national team key

Meo Sacchetti, revelation about Ettore Messina

The'experience on the bench of the'Italbasket è now archived long ago, but Meo Sacchetti è returned to that period during an interview to 'Basket Zone' on 'Discovery+', telling a significant backstory regarding Ettore Messina that dates back to the eve of the participation of the National Team in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, held in 2021 cause Covid.

"He wanted me as the coach of the National Team, he called me, he proposed it and I accepted – explained Sacchetti, who now coaches VL Pesaro – When we won in Serbia (the pre-Olympic, ed.), I wanted to give the team to Ettore Messina to go to the Olympics because he has never done them. He has won everywhere but he misses the Games. I wanted to give him the team to pay him back".

The&39;hypothesisè returned in the following days: "Someone of my people made me change my mind – the former technical commissioner recounted again -, forò I have some regret now because’ it would have been right that the national team and the Olympics were his. He had given me the chance, and I had to give something to him".

At the Olympic Games staged three years ago, Italy (which qualified for the Five Circles tournament after beating surprise favorite Serbia in the pre-Olympic final in Belgrade) topped the group along with Australia and Germany (eliminating Nigeria), making it to the quarters where for France the obstacle proved insurmountable.