Basketball, Serie A: Maurizio Buscaglia is the new Napoli coach

Maurizio Buscaglia, 53 years old ex of Brescia, Reggio Emilia and Trento (led by B to the championship final between 2010 and 2019) will be the new GeVi coach. The club’s first and only choice since Monday evening, the Bari coach who has also headed the Dutch national team since 2019, will return to Italy after a brief experience in Israel (sacked in January by Hapoel Holon): he signed this morning and should head the club. training in the afternoon, while tomorrow it will be presented to the press and fans.

Objective salvation

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It will therefore be he who will guide Naples towards a salvation goal that seemed obvious only 3 months ago (on 12 December the GeVi was third with a balance of 7 won and 4 lost) and which has instead returned to very topicality in recent weeks, with the freshman Neapolitan who has returned from 9 defeats in the last 10 games played. The last one, at home with Varese, cost the bench to Pino Sacripanti, who had signed the Coppa-Promotion brace last year in A2 and for this reason he had a central role in the project for the rebirth of Neapolitan basketball. All faded in the emergence of a ranking that now sees the blues just 4 points from the rear pair formed by Cremona and Fortitudo (with which GeVi has already lost at palabarbuto), with nine games still to be played and a completely different calendar. how easy it is. Saturday evening the Buscaglia era will start from Tortona, then the debut in Fuorigrotta with Brindisi and a very delicate first play-off in Treviso. The other two direct clashes, which could be decisive, in the last two days: in Bologna with Kigili on the penultimate, closing at home with Pesaro.

The press release

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As recalled by the press release of the club, Buscaglia’s career had its peak in the seasons in Trento, with double promotion, from B to A, then best coach in 2015, then the championship finals in 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 . Subsequently followed by the exemption in Reggio Emilia, the lack of confirmation in Brescia, and the Israeli experience at Hapoel Holon.

Ramondino renews

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In the meantime, Derthona basketball extends the agreement with coach Marco Ramondino: the contract included another season, in addition to the present one, and the 2023/24 championship was added to the report, to give further continuity and perspective to the work of the coach behind the promotion to Serie A and the two races in the Cup during this season. “With the contractual extension of the head coach – says the club -, the club lays the foundations for a high-level present and future programming, with the aim of consolidating itself more and more as one of the most important realities of the national basketball scene. “. A program, therefore, that does not hide the ambitions of the patron Beniamino Gavio, who thanks to the construction of the Citadel of sport will bring Derthona back to play in his city by the end of next year. (Stefano Brocchetti).