Ramondino moves on: from interim coach of the national team to assistant coach at Olimpia Milano
After an outstanding stint as interim coach of the national team, Ramondino is ready for a new challenge in the sport: serving as an assistant to Coach Poeta at Armani Olimpia Milano.
“Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano announces that it has reached a multi-year agreement with Coach Marco Ramondino, who will join head coach Peppe Poeta’s assistant coaching staff,” reads the official statement from the red-and-white club.
“Joining Olimpia’s coaching staff is a great honor for me. Working at such an iconic club and having the chance to learn from one of the rising stars of European basketball, Coach Poeta, is a unique opportunity that I will embrace with the utmost dedication, ready to contribute in every way possible. The high standards and pursuit of excellence that Olimpia Milano has always upheld are a model I’ve always admired, and I’m now proud to be a part of it,” were his first words as the new Olimpia assistant coach.
Born in Avellino on August 26, 1982, Ramondino began coaching at age 18 with his hometown team, and in 2002–03 he was part of the first-team staff led by Zare Markovski. He later worked in Salerno, Battipaglia, Jesi, and finally in Teramo as an assistant to Andrea Capobianco, with Peppe Poeta as point guard for a team that finished third in the regular season and reached the semifinals of the Coppa Italia. He then served as an assistant coach at Fortitudo and Veroli, where he took over as head coach in Serie A2 during the 2013–14 season. From 2015 to 2018, he was head coach of Junior Casale Monferrato in Serie A2, leading the team to four playoff appearances, including the 2018 final, which they lost to Trieste. In 2018, he became head coach of Tortona in Serie A2, winning the Serie A2 Super Cup a year later. In 2021, he won the Serie A2 championship, leading Tortona to the top division for the first time. In his debut season as head coach in Serie A, he led the team to the 2022 Coppa Italia final—which they lost to Olimpia—and to the playoff semifinals. In the 2022–23 season, Tortona reached the semifinals of the Super Cup, the Italian Cup, and the playoffs after finishing the regular season in third place. After leaving Tortona during the 2023–24 season, Ramondino first coached at Scafati and then in Germany with Mitteldeutscher. In the meantime, he served as an assistant coach for the Under-18 and Under-20 national youth teams, led the Italian experimental team, and eventually became the first assistant to Coach Luca Banchi on the senior national team. Ramondino was named Coach of the Year in A2 in 2018 and in Serie A in 2023.
