Valeriano D'Orta new sports director
Derthona Basket is happy to announce that it has added Valeriano D'Orta to its technical staff. Valeriano will hold the role of sporting director and as a result of this appointment Marco Picchi will become general manager while Luigino Fassino will continue to hold the role of managing director.
“An important and experienced figure – says Fassino himself – an excellent connoisseur of the Italian and non-Italian market. It is an important signal from Derthona Basket. We arrived at Silver with enthusiasm and now we want to consolidate ourselves. Valeriano will be able to help us in managing the company and at the same time in growth."
Marco Picchi's thoughts are on the same wavelength: "The choice of Valeriano goes in the direction of consolidating our company also considering the fact that we will have to make a further leap in quality to remain in this category".
Valeriano instead begins by saying "thanks, first of all to the CEO Luigi Fassino, and to all the people who saw in me the "new" figure to be included in a Company which, in addition to having a long-standing and important history, is establishing itself in the national basketball panorama. This fills me with pride, making my hunger to get started even more voracious."
Below is Valeriano D'Orta's CV:
44 years old, born in Turin, he is a leading figure in the category. Over the years he has alternated experiences as a coach with managerial experiences.
In 2002, called by Danna, he held the role of Technical Manager of the Youth Sector of Cimberio Novara and from the following year he became assistant coach of the A2 series. His experience in Novara lasted five years and in the last troubled season for the second part of the championship he held the role of Head Coach and GM at the same time.
In 2007 he moved to Casale Monferrato, called by Marco Crespi, to take care of the youth sector where he remained only one year and then moved first to Sassari (assistant coach and playoff final reached) and then to Veroli (two years as assistant coach with two championship finals). league won).
In 2011/2012 one more year at Casale Monferrato in Serie A, again as an assistant.
In 2013/2014 he was appointed sports director at Pms Torino (Legadue Gold). In fact, the point of union between the Team, including the staff who follow the players, and the Club. Pms reached the playoff semi-final.
In 2014/2015 D'Orta was responsible for scouting for the first team for Pallacanestro Trapani and at the same time as coordinator of the search for young players to implement the Youth Sector.
Now the new adventure in Tortona. From the whole company, welcome to Valeriano!!!
