Gianmarco Pozzecco is moved as he expresses his first thoughts as 22nd Italy coach.
He stops, drinks a glass of water and jokes about it.
"Few - explains Pozzecco - have suffered for Italy like me, I have been excluded twice from competitions in which I thought I deserved to participate. In 1999 and 2003 I did not support the national team, I cheered against my suffering. very close to the medal won in Athens. There is no one who now has the respect for Italian players as much as I do. And for this reason I will live everything with an enormous sense of responsibility, for every choice, for every exclusion: I have few margins of error ".
Pozzecco, admitting that Datome will return with the rank of captain ("I wanted to give it to Melli, he said to give it to Gigi, a beautiful gesture") and that he is waiting to speak with Hackett and Belinelli, he will finish the season with Milan and then he will dedicate himself "full time" to Italy: "It will be exciting, I will be the point of reference for the coaches. I think that in addition to the goal of winning I would like to increase the whole movement. As a player I have given visibility to basketball, now we will take care of Messina taught me so much, I don't know how much I managed to learn because of my inability ".
