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Ettore Messina (born September 30, 1959 in Catania, Sicily) is an Italian basketball coach. In June 2009, he became head coach
at the Spanish Liga ACB
club Real Madrid. He had previously
been the head coach of CSKA Moscow in the Russian League. He has
won 4 Euroleague
championships as a head coach.
Coaching
career
Professional
clubs
Messina had two different stints (1989-1993 and 1997-2002) at
the Italian League club, Virtus Bologna. During his second stint
at Virtus, he coached the team to Euroleague trophies in both 1998
and 2001. He then served as the head coach of the Italian League club Benetton Treviso, where he
succeeded Mike
D'Antoni as head coach in 2002.
Messina joined CSKA Moscow in 2005 and led the team to
the 2006 Euroleague
title in his first season there. On May 4, 2008, CSKA won the
Euroleague championship again under Messina - the club gained its
sixth Euroleague title by downing Maccabi Tel Aviv at the Madrid
Final Four. He resigned from CSKA immediately after leading them to
a Russian title and a Euroleague runner-up finish in 2009.
He was offered a position as technical director at CSKA, but at the
time of his resignation had not decided whether to stay with the
club.[1]
He was announced as the new coach of Real Madrid on June 18
2009,[2] and
signed his contract the following day.
Messina has frequently been the subject of speculation linking
him with vacant coaching jobs in the NBA. For example, he
was one of the many coaches in the discussion for the Sacramento
Kings head coaching role, and it had also been rumored that he
would join the Toronto Raptors coaching staff.
Messina is regarded as one of the best basketball coaches in Europe, having been named in 2008
as one of the 50 Greatest
Contributors in the history of the Euroleague and its
predecessor, the European Champions Cup.
Italian
national team
From 1993 to 1997, he was the head coach of Italy's men's team,
winning the silver medal with them at the 1997 European
Championship.
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