Gianmarco Pozzecco
Pozzecco coaching Orlandina Basket in March 2013.
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| Cedevita Zagreb | |||||||||||||
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| Position | Assistant coach | ||||||||||||
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Croatian League ABA League EuroCup |
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| Born |
September 15, 1972 Gorizia, Italy |
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| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||
| Listed height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||
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| NBA draft | 1994 / Undrafted | ||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1991–2010 | ||||||||||||
| Position | Point guard | ||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 2012–present | ||||||||||||
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| As player: | |||||||||||||
| 1991–1993 | A.P.U. Udine | ||||||||||||
| 1993–1994 | Libertas Livorno | ||||||||||||
| 1994–2002 | Pallacanestro Varese | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2005 | Fortitudo Bologna | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | CAI Zaragoza | ||||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | BC Khimki | ||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Orlandina Basket | ||||||||||||
| 2009 | Servolana Trieste | ||||||||||||
| 2010 | Orlandina Basket | ||||||||||||
| As coach: | |||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Orlandina Basket | ||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Pallacanestro Varese | ||||||||||||
| 2015–present | Cedevita Zagreb (assistant) | ||||||||||||
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Gianmarco Pozzecco (born September 15, 1972) is an Italian professional basketball coach and a former player. He currently serves as an assistant coach of Cedevita Zagreb.
In 1999 he won the Italian League and the Italian Supercup with Varese. In 2004 he lost the Euroleague Final Four against Maccabi Tel Aviv. He played from 1999 to 2001 in the Italian All Star Game and in the 1999 McDonald’s Open Championship.
In 2001 he tried to join the NBA franchise attending the Summer League with the Toronto Raptors, but the attempt was unsuccessful. He had the most assists per game in seven seasons of the Italian League.
After his retirement as a player, he spent few years as a broadcaster for Sky Sport and Sportitalia.On November 13, 2012 he was hired as the head coach of Orlandina Basket, the team which he ended his playing career with. In 2014, he went back to Varese as a head coach. On July 3, 2015, he parted ways with Varese.
Day later, on July 4, 2015, he signed with the Croatian team Cedevita Zagreb to be the team's assistant coach.
He joined the Italian national basketball team in 1997 and the following year participated in the World Championship; however, he had some arguments with coach Bogdan Tanjević who left him out of the talented roster at the Eurobasket 1999.
New Italian coach Carlo Recalcati let him return to the team, and although he lost the calling for the Eurobasket 2003, Pozzecco was part of the roster that won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in 2004. The following year he was part of the Italian squad at the Eurobasket 2005.
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