Gianni Petrucci sheds light on Gianmarco Pozzecco’s future
The words of Gianni Petrucci
Gianni Petrucci, now recovered from the early April accident, spoke to Corriere dello Sport about Italbasket's failure to qualify for the Olympics: "Other great teams stayed home with us: Doncic’s Slovenia, Croatia, Lithuania, Argntina and Turkey. We are sorry but basketball today è this and going to the Olympics è always particularly difficult. Paris? If I had to go, I would buy the ticket. But I would be pathetic".
Holding bench è Pozzecco’s future: "His term expires Aug. 31. He will bring è the proposal for renewal in the federal council because after the summer European qualifications begin. After the elimination he was sorry, he told me that he like everyone else had tried hard, but è he is a fighter and does not back down".
"In these years we hit two world qualifiers and one Olympic qualifier. The global management has not è been as unsuccessful as some would have us believe. A lot of people insult me, but I wallow in these things. I think of the sadness of when they will ignore me becauseé it will mean that I am finished. Instead of the culture of defeat we are at the culture of insult but I don't make too much of it. Né me né Pozzecco we feel like resigning".
Closing remark on Banchero: "He remains a mystery to me. È it was he who wrote to us that he was interested in playing with our national team. Our mistake would have been what? To believe something he had written to us? Now we are not going to the Olympics and he has not è been summoned by the United States. Now we have DiVincenzo who wants to come to us and that would be good news".
