The coach who will lead the team to Greece and Europe ahead of the new season was found by PAOK in Italy!
Specifically, with its announcement, the “black and white” KAE announced the start of its collaboration with Massimo Cancellieri until summer of 2025, thus replacing Stathis Nerantzakis in the technical leadership of the club.
Last season, the 52-year-old Italian coach was in France on her behalf Strasbourgwhile in the past he has coached Limoges, Ravenna, while he was also a member of the technical team of Armani Milan.
The announcement of KAE PAOK in detail:
“Massimo Cancellieri is the new coach of PAOK mateco
KAE PAOK mateco announces the agreement with the Italian coach Massimo Cancellieri, who takes over the technical leadership of our team for the 2024-25 season. He is an experienced coach, with performances from the top level, as for six consecutive years he was in the technical staff of Armani Milano, while the last three years he worked in France, as a coach in Limoges and Strasbourg.
We welcome Massimo Cancellieri to the PAOK family.
Welcome Coach Massimo!
Massimo Cancellieri, born on July 24, 1972, completed eight days ago his collaboration with SIG Strasbourg and at the same time, his three-year presence in the French championship. He had started in the summer of 2021, when he began his collaboration with the historic team of Limoges, on whose bench he stayed for two seasons.
During the 2023-24 season, he worked with Strasbourg, with whom he participated in both the French league (with a record of 15 wins – 19 losses, finished in 12th place in the regular season), and the Basketball Champions League (first place in the regular period and in the 5th group with 4-2 wins, exclusion from the “8” of the competition, due to a triple tie with Tofas Bursa and Cholet).
Before deciding to work for the first time outside Italy, Massimo Cancellieri was for two seasons the coach of the Ravena team (2019-21), while earlier and for six consecutive years he was on the technical staff of Armani Milano, as a direct partner of Luka Banchi ( 2013-15), Jasmin Repesa (2015-17) and Simone Pianigiani (2017-19). In the six years of his presence in Milan, he won with Armani three times the Italian championship (2014, 2016, 2018), won two Italian cups (2016, 2017), but also three consecutive Super Cups (2016, 2017, 2018).
He started his coaching career in 1994 from the infrastructure departments of San Raffaele, he also worked with Teramo Basket, Montekatini, Pallacanestro Biella, Veroli Basket, before working with Armani Milano.”
Source: Sport Fm
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