Enrico Rocco joins the technical staff of Derthona Basketball Lab
A new addition to the coaching staff of the Bertram Yachts Tortona youth sector . Derthona Basketball Lab announces the signing of Enrico Rocco , coach born in 1971, fresh from the last two seasons with Varese Academy-Pallacanestro Varese. A highly experienced coach who has achieved significant milestones in both player development and results, the Lombard coach arrives at the black and white club to further raise the bar for Derthona Basket's youth teams. He will join technical director Luca Ansaloni, who recently qualified for a historic U17 Excellence National Final in his first season at Tortona.
STATEMENTS
Derthona Basketball Lab President Claudio Coffano said : "We are very pleased to have Enrico on the team. His arrival is part of our commitment to improving the quality of our youth team staff, allowing us to offer our players technical guidance that can help them grow both athletically and personally, because we must never forget that we are still talking about young players. We are confident that the extensive experience we have already gained, combined with our relationship with Ansaloni, will provide that additional boost that will allow us to compete with other historically strong youth teams, further closing the gap between us and the two or three top teams at the national level. This will also make us more attractive to young prospects who could find a place in our Serie A in the future ."
Enrico Rocco : “Derthona is a club we've often met with in previous years, and now the partnership has finally materialized. I'm happy to be joining Tortona right now. I sense a desire to build a significant structure, from the first team to the youth sector and the women's team. A desire to grow not only in terms of organizational structure but also in terms of infrastructure, given the Cittadella dello Sport project. I'm delighted to join this organization and hope to bring my expertise to the club's continued growth. The goals? To do a good job, primarily developing players for the first team. The hope is that the interaction with the Serie A staff, along with that with Ansaloni, will lead to this 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.
