Piero Bucchi

Piero Bucchi (born March 5, 1958) is an Italian basketball head coach, currently managing Virtus Roma in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A.

Piero Bucchi
Virtus Roma
PositionHead coach
LeagueLega Basket Serie A
Personal information
Born (1958-03-05) March 5, 1958
Bologna, Italy
NationalityItalian
Coaching career1996–present
Career history
As coach:
1996–1999Basket Rimini Crabs
1999–2001Pallacanestro Treviso
2001Śląsk Wrocław
2001–2002Basket Napoli
2002–2005Virtus Roma
2005–2008Basket Napoli
2008–2011Olimpia Milano
2011–2016New Basket Brindisi
2016–2017Victoria Libertas Pesaro
2017JuveCaserta
2018-presentVirtus Roma
Career highlights and awards

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 remained for two and a half seasons, until his exemption 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 January 3, 2011, Piero Bucchi was sacked due to a series of major defeats. He was replaced by Dan Peterson.[1]

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.[2]

On June 1 of the same year, he signed a two-years contract with Consultinvest Pesaro.[3]

Honours and titles

Head Coach

New Basket Brindisi (2012)
  • Lega Basket Serie A: 1
Pallacanestro Treviso (2000)
Pallacanestro Treviso (1999–2000)
Basket Napoli (2006)
Pallacanestro Treviso (2001)
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References
  1. "Dan Peterson torna a Milano, Coach al posto di Bucchi" [Dan Peterson returns to Milano, Coach will replace Bucchi]. gazzetta.it (in Italian). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
  2. "Bucchi: 'E' il commiato, grazie a tutti'" [Bucchi: 'It's a goodbye, thanks to all']. sportando.com (in Italian). Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  3. "Piero Bucchi è il nuovo allenatore della VL" [Piero Bucchi is the new head coach of VL]. victorialibertas.it (in Italian). Retrieved 7 July 2016.
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