Andrea Trinchieri (born August 6, 1968) is an Italian professional

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coach.

Coaching career

Clubs

Trinchieri was the

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with the Italian League club

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from 1998 to 2004. He then became the

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of the Italian club Vanoli Basket from 2004 to 2007, and helped Vanoli get promoted from the Italian Third Division to the Italian Second Division. After that, he was the head coach of the Italian club

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, which was also in the Italian Second Division at that time. His next head coaching job was also in the Italian Second Division, with Veroli Basket, during the 2008–09 season. With Veroli Basket, he won the Italian Second Division Cup title, and he was named the Italian Second Division's Coach of the Year in 2009. After that, he became the head coach of the Italian team

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. As the head coach of Cantù, he was named the Italian League Coach of the Year in both 2010 and 2011. He also won the

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with Cantù, in the 2012–13 season. In 2013, he became the head coach of the Russian

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club

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. With UNICS, he was the EuroCup's

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in the 2013–14 season. In July 2014, it was announced that Trinchieri would be the new head coach of the German club

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. On October 4, 2015, he extended his contract with the club, until the end of the 2016–17 season. With Brose, he won the German national league championship, the

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, in the 2014–15, 2015–16, and 2016–17 seasons. On February 19, 2018, Trinchieri was released from his head coaching position with Brose, after the team lost 12 of their last 15 games. On November 1, 2018, Trinchieri was named head coach of the Serbian club Partizan, signing a three-year deal. On July 2, 2020, Trinchieri parted ways with Partizan, with whom he won the 2018–19 and

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s, and

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. On July 15, 2020, Trinchieri was appointed as the head coach of the German

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club

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. On June 22, 2021, he extended his contract until 2023. The club parted ways with Trinchieri after his contract ended. On December 30, 2023, the Italian coach was named head coach of the Lithuanian club Žalgiris Kaunas, signing until 2025. He replaced

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, who left the club after an unsuccessful first half of the season.

Greece national team

It was announced on January 2, 2013, by the

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, that Trinchieri would coach the

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for the next two years. In June 2014, he was replaced as Greece's head coach by Fotis Katsikaris, even though Trinchieri still had a valid contract as national team's head coach.

Coaching record

EuroLeague

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Personal life

Trinchieri's family is international. His mother is from

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and his grandmother is from

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. His father, Paolo Trinchieri, is from the

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and

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, and his grandfather, Alfredo Trinchieri, was a diplomat from

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Awards and accomplishments

* Italian Second Division Cup Winner: (2009) * Italian Second Division Coach of the Year: (2009) * 2× Italian League Coach of the Year: (

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

) *

Winner: (2012) * Russian Cup Winner: (

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

) * EuroCup Coach of the Year: (

) * 3× German League

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

) *

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Winner: (

) * 3x

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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) * 2×

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Winner: (

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) *

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Winner: (

)

References

External links

Andrea Trinchieri
at euroleague.net
Andrea Trinchieri
at legabasket.it {{DEFAULTSORT:Trinchieri, Andrea 1968 births Living people BC UNICS coaches BC Žalgiris coaches Brose Baskets coaches FC Bayern Munich basketball coaches Greece national basketball team coaches Italian expatriate basketball people in Germany Italian expatriate basketball people in Greece Italian expatriate basketball people in Serbia Italian expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania Italian basketball coaches Italian people of American descent Italian people of Croatian descent Italian people of Montenegrin descent Juvecaserta Basket coaches KK Partizan coaches Pallacanestro Cantù coaches Sportspeople from Milan Vanoli Basket coaches Veroli Basket coaches

Coaching career

Clubs

Greece national team

Coaching record

EuroLeague

Personal life

Awards and accomplishments

See also

References

External links