Tears for an Italian coach: sudden mourning in sport. Everyone wanted to hug his family with messages of affection
The basketball coach of New Basket, Frank Vitucci, has lost his beloved mother in these hours. The Happy Casa Brindisi, from the president to all the components are close to the professional and the man.
And really hard time for one of the most popular Italian basketball coaches on the Italian circuit. We are talking about Francesco Vitucci, for all Frank, coach of New Basket Brindisi who lost his beloved mother in these hours.
The news is learned from the note of the press office of the Happy Casa Brindisi, that all its components wanted to gather around the man even before the professional.
“President Fernando Marino, all the partners and the entire Happy Casa Brindisi company gather around the pain that struck coach Frank Vitucci for the disappearance of his beloved mother. To him, his brother Alberto, his wife Monica and their children Chiara, Giovanni and Marco goes the most affectionate hug and the closeness of the whole blue-white world“, reads the note released by the club.
Mourning in Italian sport: the mother of Frank Vitucci, basketball coach of Happy Casa Brindisi, has died
Francis, Frank Vitucci, started coaching the Reyer Venezia youth team (area of which he is native) and, again for the local team, he held the role of assistant coach for seven years alongside technicians such as Primo, Zorzi, Skansi and De Sisti.
After becoming head trainercenter historical promotion in A1 in 1996crowning his great goal and that of all Venetian society.
After the bankruptcy of Reyer Venezia, Vitucci he moved to Andrea Costa Imola. With the team from Romagna he reaches unexpected goals, participating in the championship play-offs and the Korać Cup, as well as the Saporta Cup. Then from 2002 to 2004 he sat on the Scafati bench, always in A1.
The franchise leap, as a coat of arms, accomplishes it in 2003 when he became assistant-coach at Benetton Treviso. In November 2007, after the dismissal of Alessandro Ramagli, he became ad interim coach of the famous green-and-whites.
Frank Vitucci’s career in Italian basketball: from its origins to its consecration
Frank Vitucci left after his experience at Benetton in 2010, a short break, after which he embraced the Auxilium Turin projectalways in the top flight. After a season and a half, in which he collects 22 victories in 49 total games, he leaves Piedmont and waits six months before signing in December 2007 for Brindisi.
With the New trash he finds a feeling that is still unchanged and a second family in which he is able to perform at his best. His technical management has consolidated the Apulian club, as well as launching several interesting young players on the national scene.
Unfortunately in delicate moments like thiswith the loss of a close relative, sport and in this case basketball definitely takes a back seat.
