Piero Bucchi

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Piero Bucchi
Piero Bucchi (Pepsi Rimini 1997-98).jpg
Valtur Brindisi
Position Head coach
League Lega Basket Serie A
Personal information
Born (1958-03-05) 5 March 1958 (age 66)
Bologna, Italy
NationalityItalian
Coaching career1996–present
Career history
As coach:
1996–1999 Basket Rimini Crabs
1999–2001 Pallacanestro Treviso
2001 Śląsk Wrocław
2001–2002 Basket Napoli
2002–2005 Virtus Roma
2005–2008Basket Napoli
2008–2011 Olimpia Milano
2011–2016 New Basket Brindisi
2016–2017 Victoria Libertas Pesaro
2017 JuveCaserta
2018-2020 Virtus Roma
2021 Pallacanestro Cantù
2021–2024 Dinamo Sassari
2024–presentNew Basket Brindisi
Career highlights and awards

Piero Bucchi (born 5 March 1958) is an Italian basketball coach. He is the current head coach of Valtur Brindisi of the Serie A2.

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Coaching 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 17 June 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 3 January 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 4 May 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 4 May 2016 Piero Bucchi left Enel Brindisi after five years. [2]

On 1 June that year he signed a two-years contract with Consultinvest Pesaro. [3]

On 16 November 2021 Bucchi signed with Dinamo Sassari to replace Demis Cavina. [4]

On May 16, 2024, he signed with Valtur Brindisi of the Serie A2. [5]

Honours and titles

Head coach

New Basket Brindisi (2012)
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.[ permanent dead link ]
  4. ↑ "Piero Bucchi alla guida del Banco" (in Italian). dinamobasket.com. 16 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "Piero Bucchi is back: è il nuovo allenatore biancoazzurro". newbasketbrindisi.it (in Italian). May 16, 2024. Retrieved June 23, 2024.
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