Enrico Rocco joins the technical staff of Derthona Basketball Lab
New graft in technical staff of the youth sector of Bertram YachtsTortona. Derthona Basketball Lab announces the signing of Enrico Rocco, coach born in 1971, returning from the last two years with the Varese Academy-Pallacanestro Varese. A highly experienced coach who has achieved very important goals both in terms of player training and results, the Lombard coach arrives at the Juventus Club to further raise the level of the technical offer of the Derthona Basket youth teams, working alongside the technical manager Luca Ansaloni, fresh from qualifying for a historic qualification for the U17 Eccellenza National Final in his first season in Tortona.
STATEMENTS
The president of the Derthona Basketball Lab, Claudio Coffano: “We are very happy to have Enrico on the team. His arrival goes with a view to improving the quality of the youth sector staff, allowing us to offer our members a technical guide capable of making them grow both sportingly and humanly, since we must never forget that we are still talking about kids. We are sure that the great experience already gained, together with the relationship with Ansaloni, can provide that further leap that will allow us to be competitive with other historically strong clubs in the youth field, to increasingly reduce the gap that separates us from the 2-3 teams that represent the maximum at a national level. This will also allow us to be more attractive to youth prospects who could have space in our Serie A in the future".
Enrico Rocco: “Derthona is a club with which we have often come into contact in previous years and now the partnership has finally come to fruition. I am happy to arrive in Tortona, at this moment, I perceive that there is a desire to build an important structure, which goes from the first team to the youth sector and the women's team. A desire for growth not only in the organizational structure but also in the infrastructure, given the Cittadella dello Sport project. Happy to join this organization, I hope to bring my know-how to continue the growth of the club. Goals? Doing a good job, which consists above all in building players for the first team. The hope is that the interaction with the Serie A staff, together with that with Ansaloni, can achieve the goal."
THE PROPERTY
Enrico Rocco was born in Magenta (MI) on 4 February 1971. After a playing career that began in CCSA Arese, interrupted at the age of twenty due to health problems, he began his adventure as a coach in the youth teams of the same club. In the 1994-95 season he became responsible for the youth sector of TeoremaTour Milano and joined the first team staff as assistant to Fabrizio Frates, in the year in which Arese won the Serie A2 championship. With the arrival of coach Carlo Recalcati in the 1995-96 season, he continued his activity as assistant in A1. In the following season he moved to Olimpia Milano and took on the role of assistant to Marco Crespi in the junior team in which players of the caliber of Mordente, Michelori and Quaroni played. He therefore decides to embrace the Milano3 project where he takes the excellent junior group to the national category finals. He then moves on to the senior categories without ever abandoning his passion for the youth sector. He coaches in Voghera in Serie C1, then C2 again in Arese, where he again holds the role of youth sector manager, and Legnano (in C1). In the following five seasons he was the youth manager of Aurora Desio and for two he was the coach of the first team in Serie C Amateurs which over the years has become an expression of the youth sector. In this period he played in four championship finals, two as head of the Under 16s and another two at U15 level as technical manager, also winning an Italian "B" Under 19 title.
Dedicating himself by profession and passion to data processing and the most innovative IT applications in the world of sport, he became an expert in this field, so much so that he was called by the National Teams Sector in 2007 and became assistant to coach Recalcati. In the staff of the senior national team he played in the European Championships in Spain in 2007, the qualifiers for the European Championships in Poland in 2008 and 2009 and the Mediterranean Games in 2009.
In the summer of 2010 he accepted the proposal to build a youth sector in a city like Genoa and here too he succeeded in launching some players and coaches who had established themselves in the top Italian tournaments. He returned to Pallacanestro Aurora Desio in 2015 for two seasons, followed by three at the Accademia Basket Altomilanese with the achievement of a National U15 Excellence Final. Before arriving in Tortona he spent two years at the Varese Academy-Pallacanestro Varese, where he coached the U19 Eccellenza, the Serie C Gold and achieved qualification for the recent U15 Eccellenza National Final.
