Alberto Bucci

Alberto Bucci (born 25 May 1948, Bologna, Italy) is an Italian, former professional basketball coach.

Alberto Bucci began his coaching career at just 25 years (1974) as head coach of Alco Bologna in the place of outgoing Giuseppe Guerrieri. The upcoming season found him in Rimini where he stayed there for five seasons (1974–79) and led the team from D division to Serie A2. After the easy eve of the club in the same division withdrew and joined Fabriano. The 1981-82 season helped the team to escalate the great division (Serie A), while the following year saved them from relegation. His successful job in Fabriano recognized by the people of Virtus Bologna and gave him charge of the club for the next two years (1983–85). In Bologna, led immediately Granarolo in their first golden star with the winning of double (Italian League & Italian Cup) against the super competitive team of Simac Milano. His second year in Virtus was mediocre having reached the 7th position in the championship, while in the 1984–85 FIBA European Champions Cup arrived at the top six where came out last in the group. Leaving the city of Bologna, he was founded for six years in serie A2 coaching at first to Enichem Livorno and then Glaxo Verona scoring the unique achievement, the conquest of the Italian Cup (against Philips Milano) for the first and only time in the history by club of A2 (1990–91). Following these successes he joined Scavolini Pesaro. The participation of the team to the final of playoffs and the winning of the Italian Cup made its year successful despite the club's defeat in the double final of 1991–92 FIBA Korać Cup by il Messaggero Roma of the Croatian superstar Dino Rađa. The 1992-93 season Alberto Bucci led Scavolini in the playoffs semifinal despite the 7th place of the regular season, while in 1992–93 FIBA European League reached the quarterfinals where they eliminated by Benetton Treviso of another Croatian superstar, Toni Kukoč. Τhe summer of 1993 Ettore Messina withdraw from Virtus Bologna tο take charge of the national team, which led Alberto Bucci to return in Bianconero of Bologna after 8 years. He stayed there for 4 years and thanks to a well-built roster which have enough Italian internationals and foreign players in class of "Saša" Danilović and Arijan Komazec, he won two domestic leagues (1993–94, 1994–95), an Italian Cup (1996–97) and a Super Cup (1995). Despite the domestic titles, Alberto Bucci couldn't led Virtus to do the overrun in Europe and get in a Final Four after being eliminated twice in the quarterfinals by Olympiacos (1993-94) and Panathinaikos (1994-95), while twice reached until just the last 16 (1995-96, 1996-97). The summer of 1997 he withdrew from Virtus and almost abruptly from the scene. His reception by Fabriano the 1999-2000 season and Progresso Castelmaggiore the 2003-04 season was his latest works in professional clubs.

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