Givova Scafati, Marcelo Nicola is the brand new head coach

The Givova Scafati proclaims that it has signed the Argentine coach, naturalized Spanish, Marcelo Nicola for the 2024/2025 aggressive season, throughout which he’ll maintain the place of head coach of the primary crew that may participate within the males’s championship A league.

Marcelo Patricio Nicola Virginio (Rafaela, 12 Could 1971), earlier than being a basketball coach, he was an internationally famend basketball participant: employed as an influence ahead, he performed for the youth groups in Argentina, after which moved to Tau Vitoria in 1989, the place he performed for seven seasons and with whom he gained a Copa del Rey and a European Cup. In 1993 he was drafted within the second spherical of the NBA Draft, with the quantity 50, give him Houston Rockets, however most popular to stay in Spain. Within the 1996-97 season he then moved to Greece, to put on the inexperienced jersey of Panathīnaïkos, however he performed little or no as a result of harm. In 1997-98 he moved to Barcelona, ​​whereas from 1998, for six seasons, he performed for Benetton Treviso, the place he gained two championships, three Italian Cups, two Italian Tremendous Cups and one Saporta Cup. Within the 2004-05 season he arrived in Ukraine to put on the shirt of Basketball membership Kievwhereas in 2005 he returned to Italy within the ranks of Mens Sana Siena. Within the 2006-07 season he had a fleeting look with the shirt of Reggiana Basketballafter which, in February 2007, mentioned goodbye to taking part in basketball.

Having ended his profitable profession as a participant, he took the trail of the bench, turning into assistant coach of Benetton Treviso for 3 seasons from 2007 to 2010, within the Italian Serie A. After two seasons as youth coaches for the Treviso membership from 2012 to 2014, he moved to Spain on the bench of Murcia in Liga ACB, first as an assistant after which as head coach. The achievement of an sudden salvation in ACB projected Nicola into the next season in Lithuania, on the distinguished bench of Lithuanian morning. After finishing his Baltic expertise, in 2016/2017 he was assistant coach atHapoel Gerusalemmethe place with coach Pianigiani gained the Israeli title. The next 2017/2018 season he was assistant coach in Germany in Brose Bambergwhereas in 2019 he returned to Italy to shut the season as head coach on the bench of Forlì (A2 collection). Then, from 2019 to 2021 Marcelo Nicola returned to the Basque Nation to take a seat for 2 consecutive seasons on the bench of San Sebastian, with whom he gained the Copa Princesa de Asturias in 2020 (in LEB). On 5 April 2022 Nicola changed Massimiliano Menetti as the brand new coach of Treviso (Serie A), attaining salvation each within the the rest of that championship and on the finish of the next version.

Assertion from the brand new head coach Marcelo Nicola: «I agreed to be a part of this venture which instantly attracted me, as a result of the corporate needs to develop and be a protagonist. I settle for the problem with willpower and nice need. Collectively we are able to do a terrific job and develop alongside the way in which. I thank the membership’s house owners for putting their belief in me, which I’ll reciprocate with exhausting work and the hope of attaining the outcomes all of us anticipate. The crew should have character and willpower, elementary traits to do nice issues».

Assertion from the Scafatese basic supervisor Alessandro Giuliani: «We instantly received on nicely with Marcelo, agreeing on each concepts and initiatives. He’ll convey to Scafati his expertise as a coach on the worldwide area and his need to struggle, demonstrated within the 2021/2022 season (changing coach Menetti) and within the 2022/2023 season, when he sat on the Treviso bench».