| Žalgiris Kaunas | |
|---|---|
| Position | Assistant coach |
| League | LKL EuroLeague |
| Personal information | |
| Born | 27 January 1973 Palmanova, Friuli, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Coaching career | 1997–present |
| Career history | |
| As coach: | |
| 1997–1998 | Pallacanestro Reggiana (assistant) |
| 1998–2003 | Juvenilia Reggio Emilia |
| 2003–2006 | Reggiana (assistant) |
| 2006–2007 | Reggiana |
| 2007–2008 | Reggiana (assistant) |
| 2009–2010 | Sutor Montegranaro (assistant) |
| 2010–2011 | Reggiana (assistant) |
| 2011–2018 | Reggiana |
| 2018–2022 | Universo Treviso |
| 2022 | Reggiana |
| 2023–2024 | Hapoel Eilat |
| 2024–present | Žalgiris Kaunas (assistant) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Massimiliano "Max" Menetti (born 27 January 1973) is an Italian professional basketball coach, who is currently an assistant coach of Žalgiris Kaunas of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) and the EuroLeague.
After spending years coaching the youth teams of Pallacanestro Reggiana and serving as assistant coach, Menetti was offered the head coach role for the 2006–07 season though he returned to the assistant role at the end of the season. After a stint at Sutor Montegranaro in 2009–10 (again as an assistant), he returned to Reggio Emilia. One year later he would be named head coach again, a position he would make his for the subsequent seasons. In 2014 he led Pallacanestro Reggiana to the EuroChallenge title.
On 1 July 2015, his contract was extended until 2017.[1] On 16 May 2018, Menetti and Pallacanestro Reggiana consensually parted ways, with one year of contract still left. Menetti left the club after 8 seasons as head coach since the 2011 takeover, winning promotion to Serie A in 2012, five consecutive Playoffs and Final Eight participation (2012–2017), one EuroChallenge (2014), one Italian Supercup (2015) and finishing two times as Serie A runners-up (2015, 2016) and reaching the EuroCup semifinals (2018).
From the summer of 2018 to 2022, Menetti served as the head coach of Universo Treviso Basket. During the first season with Menneti at the helm, Treviso went on to win Serie A2 Basket play-off championship and got place in Serie A.
On 28 July 2023, he signed with Hapoel Eilat of the Israeli Basketball Premier League.[2][3]
On 22 January 2024, Menetti signed as an assistant coach for Žalgiris Kaunas of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) and the EuroLeague.[4]
He is married with former Argentinian volleyball player Maria Pia Romanò, with whom he has a daughter. Romanò played for various seasons in Reggio Emilia, while Menetti was club assistant.