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The end of the year is always time for reflection and acknowledgements. With this intentions in mind, I'd like wishing serene holidays and a new year full of health and success to all of those who in the past 12 months have showed me their sympathy and affection, to those who have rejoiced with us in good times and have supported us in more turbulent moments and also to those who, politely and with arguments, have disagreed on aspects of my job, a position in which by definition it is...
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There are times when we say "I have been lucky to coach this (or that) player" in somewhat a politically correct or a bit formal way.
But I consider myself very fortunate to have coached and continue coaching two persons and players like Marcus Brown and Juan Carlos Navarro.
Marcus Brown, until yesterday Euroleague's leading scorer of all times, was a concentrate of competitiveness, toughness before adversity, capacity of endurance through physical pain, intensity in his game on both sides of...
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Marcus Brown has retired. I have had the pleasure, the honour and the pride to coach him, winning also an ACB League and reaching an Euroleague F4 with him but above all, I have had the honour of working with one of the players with most character and desire to win among the ones I have ever known and coached.
A competitive mentality, altruistic, completely focused on the team's results, demanding almost to a level of intransigence both towards himself and any member of the team, but at the...
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Hello everybody,
Only a few days have passed since the magical night of the 18th of September, when we won our second European championship, and they have been very intense ones, starting from Monday's celebration and farewell to the team, both very emotional moments, to the trip to Istanbul on Wednesday to participate in the meeting of Euroleague's coaches and executive referees, to taking charge of Emporio Armani Olimpia Milano, my new professional challenge.
They have been quite busy...
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Hi all,
The first 3 days of the Eurobasket have confirmed the impression that the technical level is high and that a group of great players is already standing out.
There have been no major surprises in the results, perhaps only the defeat of Croatia vs. Macedonia, despite the fact that many games between teams of supposedly different level have been more even than expected: Lithuania vs. Great Britain, Spain vs. Poland, Serbia vs. Israel, Russia vs. Georgia, the defeat of Croatia against...
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