The former basketball player and basketball coach, Carlo Recalcati, CT of the National Silver at the Athens 2004 Games, turns 80 today. “Carlo Recalcati is a heritage of Italian basketball. Today, on the day of his 80 years, it is a pleasure to be able to interpret the feeling of the whole movement of Italian basketball, the FIP and those who love this sport, in using a wonderful birthday”, is the greeting messages of the Italian Basketball Federation and President Giovanni Petrucci. “Charly has dedicated his life to basketball and the blue national team, first as a player then as a coach bringing to the field sobriety, elegance and competence together with a character and a determination that have made it over the years a point of reference also at European and world level. The numbers speak for themselves: as a player he has collected 166 appearances in the national team (18th of all time) from 1967 to 1976, scoring 1245 points (20th of always). Two bronze medals at the European Championships of 1971 and 1975. He played, among other competitions, the Olympic games in Mexico in 1968 and Montreal in 1976. The most beautiful memories, however, are linked to his experience on the bench of our national team, led in an exemplary way 242 times (according to always behind Sandro Gamba) from 2001 to 2009 with the European bronze in 2003 and above all with the historic silver medal for the games. Athens 2004 Olympic. Basketball Italy is proud of one of its myths.
