Gianmarco Pozzecco, Carlo Recalcati reveal a pre-EuroBasket backstory.

The’former technical commissioner of the men&#8217s national basketball team, Carlo Recalcati spoke with ‘Libero’ about the relationship as a student-basketball coach first and as a colleague later with l’current guide of the’Italbasket, Gianmarco Pozzecco, also revealing what he told him before the Azzurri left for Cyprus, where they are facing the group stage of EuroBasket 2025.

“I didn&#8220t give him advice but an order – said Recalcati -: try to bring the National team to the podium because I got tired of being the’only one to have won a medal both as a player, in the 1971 and 1975 European Championships when I played for Cantù, and then as a coach, at the 2003 European Championships and the 2004 Athens Olympic Games″.

“I really hope that the Poz, my former player and great friend, goes on well in this European and gives me a gift with his team – explained again the’former technical commissioner, 80 years to be completed on September 11 -. I got tired of being the’last coach to win something, and then 21 years ago. Which, in today&#8217s life, is an&#8217 enormity”.

Born in 1945, Carlo Recalcati (nicknamed ‘Charlie’) is one of the totems of Italian basketball: as a player he was the flag of Cantù, with whom he won two Scudetti, three Korac Cups, one Intercontinental and three Cup Winners Cups, winning bronze in the national team at the 1971 and 1975 European Championships. As a coach, he won three Scudetti with three different clubs (Varese, Fortitudo Bologna and Siena), with a continental bronze in 2003 and Olympic silver the following year at the helm of the national team.