Gianmarco Pozzecco, Carlo Recalcati reveals a backstory.
The’former head coach of the men’s national basketball team, Carlo Recalcati spoke to ‘Libero’ about his relationship as a student-basketball player first and as a colleague later with the’current guide of 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.
They are not the only ones who have been given advice.
“I did not give him advice but an order – said Recalcati -: try to take the national team to the podium because I am 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, will go on well in this European Championship and give me a gift with his team– explained again the’former technical commissioner, 80 years old to be turned on Sept. 11 -. I got tired of being the’last coach to win something, and then 21 years ago. Which, in today’s life, is an’ 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.
