Basketball, Cantù sacks Sacchetti. In his place Cagnardi

5 days before the start of the A-2 championship, Cantù sacked Meo Sacchetti and promoted Devis Cagnardi, first assistant since the summer, to the bench. Relations between the club and the former Italian coach became complicated after Cantù’s defeat against Torino in the Super Cup. Last year, the first of the two-year contract signed in 2022, Cantù was eliminated by Pistoia in the semi-final of the playoffs, thus failing to gain promotion, after relegation in 2021.

The debut is on Saturday

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Cagnardi, 47 years old, coached Agrigento in A-2 until last year. As of this year, Meo’s son, Tommaso, is also among the Cantù staff. In 2019 Sacchetti brought Italy back to the World Cup after 13 years and in 2021 to the Tokyo Games, 17 years after the last participation in Athens 2004. Then the exemption in 2022. On Saturday Cantù makes his debut in Cremona against Juvi in ​​the advance of the first day of the green group
of A-2.