Piero Bucchi

Piero Bucchi
Victoria Libertas Pesaro
Position Head coach
League Lega Basket Serie A
Personal information
Born (1958-03-05) March 5, 1958
Bologna, Italy
Nationality Italian
Coaching career 1996–present
Career history
As coach:
1996–1999 Basket Rimini Crabs
1999–2001 Pallacanestro Treviso
2001 Śląsk Wrocław (Polonia)
2001–2002 Basket Napoli
2002–2005 Virtus Roma
2005–2008 Basket Napoli
2008–2011 Olimpia Milano
2011–2016[1] New Basket Brindisi
2016–present Victoria Libertas Pesaro
Career highlights and awards

Piero Bucchi (born March 5, 1958) is an Italian basketball head coach, currently managing Victoria Libertas Pesaro in the Lega Basket Serie A.[2]

Career

Piero Bucchi started his coach-career with Basket Rimini Crabs in 1992. He became the head coach of that team in March 1996. At the end of the 1996–97 season he achieved the promotion to Serie A. At the beginning of the 1999–2000 Serie A season, he became the head coach of Benetton Treviso. With him they won two Cups and one Supercup.

Then he went to Basket Napoli and later to Lottomatica Roma where he will remain for two seasons and half, until his exemption in during the 2004–05 Serie A season.

Piero returned to Napoli and won another Cup.

With the end of his contract with Napoli on June 17, 2008, he was engaged by the Giorgio Armani's staff, the new owner of Olimpia Milano for the 2008–09 Lega Basket Serie A. After reaching two playoffs finals with Milano, on Jenuary 3rd 2011, Piero Bucchi was sacked due to a series of major defeats. He was replaced by Dan Peterson.[3]

At the end of May 2011, Bucchi signed a two years contract with Enel Brindisi in Serie A2. On May 4 of the 2011–12 Serie A2 season, won the Serie A2 Cup and achieved the promotion to Serie A, after beating Pistoia Basket 88-86.

At the 2012–13 season, Brindisi obtained the first qualification to the Italian Cup.

On May 4, 2016, Piero Bucchi left Enel Brindisi after five years.[4]

On June 1 of the same year, he signed a two-years contract with Consultinvest Pesaro.[5]

Honours and titles

Head Coach

New Basket Brindisi (2012)
Pallacanestro Treviso (2000)
Pallacanestro Treviso (1999–2000)
Basket Napoli (2006)
Pallacanestro Treviso (2001)

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/22/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.