Italian basketball head coach
Piero Bucchi (born 5 March 1958) is an Italian basketball coach who was most recently the head coach of Dinamo Sassari in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and Romeo Sacchetti's assistant coach of the Italian national team.
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]
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