The EEC has announced a new partnership with Rick Pitino for the National Groups

He returned to Greece and will have a new partnership with the National Team, as announced by the EEC, a new role for American basketball legend and Hall Of Famer. After his presence in the position of national basketball coach, Rick Pitino agreed with the EEC to take the role of consultant in the Federation’s development programme for small national teams. Remaining coach in the U.S. college championship, Pitino will offer his expertise on development issues for the national teams of Greek basketball. The EEC Communication on Pitino The legend of college basketball and former National Men’s Greek coach, Rick Pitino… is coming back. The well-known coach, who has gained particularly strong ties with our country and its basketball, has accepted the proposal for extended cooperation, the same and their partners, on development issues in order to offer the know-how of US college basketball and propose ways of implementing it in the EEC’s development programme. Today (27/3), Coach Pitino met at the EEC’s offices with EEC President Vangelis Liolio, Director General Dinos Sverkounos and the National Team Manager Municipality of Ntoudi where they discussed the main plan of this collaboration, and attended with his colleagues in person and the training of National teenagers, in view of her participation in the Albert Schweitzer tournament in Manheim. Rick Pitino pointed out the importance of development by saying features that “this is the key to Greek basketball, that there should be proper development of new players not only to be good for their teams, but for the National team, this is the key to seeing how many next Diamantidis, Spanoulis, the creation of this system is the most important.