Maurizio Buscaglia

Maurizio Buscaglia (born 9 April 1969) is an Italian professional basketball coach. He was last the head coach of Reggio Emilia. He is also the coach of the Netherlands national basketball team.

Maurizio Buscaglia
Buscaglia in 2013
Personal information
Born (1969-04-09) 9 April 1969
Bari, Italy
NationalityItalian
PositionHead coach
Coaching career1986–present
Career history
As coach:
1994–1995Anzola Bologna
1995–1996Salus Bologna
1996–2000Piove di Sacco
2000–2002Mestre (assistant)
2002–2003Mestre
2003–2007Aquila Trento
2007–2008Mestre
2009–2010Perugia
2010–2019Aquila Trento
2019–2020Reggio Emilia
2019–presentNetherlands
Career highlights and awards
As coach:

Coaching career

After spending years coaching the youth teams of two clubs in Perugia, and two more in Bologna, Buscaglia was offered the head coach role for the 1996–97 season, with Piove di Sacco. For the 2001–02 season, he began as the assistant coach of Bears Mestre in the Serie B (Italian 3rd Division), and later he was named the head coach of the team.

In 2003, he was signed by Aquila Trento, of Serie C1 (Italian 4th Division), where he stayed until 2007, and achieved a league promotion to Serie B in 2005.

He later went back to Mestre, and then Perugia Basket, achieving many league promotions.

In 2010, he again became the head coach of Aquila Trento. In that following season, he achieved the league promotion to the Serie A2 (Italian 2nd Division). In the 2013–14 season, he won the Italian LNP Cup (2nd tier Italian Cup) and, in the same year, he achieved a league promotion to the Italian top-tier level LBA for the first time.

At the end of the 2014–15 Serie A season, his team finished the regular season in fourth place, and he was named the Italian League's Coach of the Year.[1]

The 2015–16 EuroCup season was the first season of European-wide competition for him and his team, and at the end of the competition, he was named the EuroCup Coach of The Year.[2]

On 22 July 2019, Buscaglia signed a contract to become the head coach of the Netherlands national basketball team, ending in the summer of 2021.[3]

References
  1. "LegaBasket Awards: premiati Trainotti, Buscaglia e Mitchell" [Lega Basket Serie A Awards to Trainotti, Buscaglia and Mitchell]. ladigetto.it (in Italian). Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  2. "Eurocup Coach of the Year: Maurizio Buscaglia, Dolomiti Energia Trento". eurocupbasketball.com. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  3. "Italiaan Buscaglia nieuwe basketballcoach Nederlands mannenteam". Oranje Basketball. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
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