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The end of the year is always time for reflection and acknowledgements. With this intentions in mind, I'd like wishing serene holidays and a new year full of health and success to all of those who in the past 12 months have showed me their sympathy and affection, to those who have rejoiced with us in good times and have supported us in more turbulent moments and also to those who, politely and with arguments, have disagreed on aspects of my job, a position in which by definition it is...
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Marcus Brown has retired. I have had the pleasure, the honour and the pride to coach him, winning also an ACB League and reaching an Euroleague F4 with him but above all, I have had the honour of working with one of the players with most character and desire to win among the ones I have ever known and coached.
A competitive mentality, altruistic, completely focused on the team's results, demanding almost to a level of intransigence both towards himself and any member of the team, but at the...
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The last person I spoke to in Granada after our win against Slovenia, before boarding the bus, was a middle-aged gentleman, friendly, smiling, always open to jokes, with whom I had met many times in and out basketball arenas: Alfonso Reyes, the father of Felipe and Alfonso.
Unfortunately that was the last time that I will ever chat and joke with him.
I remember laughing with him about his son's anger towards the referee's mistakes in that game. He told me he was going to to spend a few days...
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We'd like to post some of the many birthday greetings received by Sergio on the website, Facebook and Twitter. We are sorry not being able to publish them all!
Sergio says: "Thank you all! I cannot respond to all of you personally, but I read every message and each of them is a small, beautiful birthday present... see you very soon!"
Caro Sergio,
se la seconda parte della tua vita sarà come i primi 50 anni ho
paura che per te il mondo sia piccolo, complimenti per tutto quello che...
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When last year I was asked in an interview for a US website, among the other questions, who was the character that I respected more among those who I met in the world of basketball, I remember the interviewer's surprise when my answer was Cesare Rubini.
I was even asked if, having met people like David Stern, Phil Jackson and Pat Riley, my answer was emotional or parochial. I insisted, stressing the fact that this feeling came from the respect, almost awe, which sprang from a conversation...
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