Massimiliano Menetti

Massimiliano "Max" Menetti (born 27 January 1973) is an Italian professional basketball coach, who is currently the head coach of Hapoel Eilat of the Israeli Basketball Premier League.

Massimiliano Menetti
Hapoel Eilat
PositionHead coach
LeagueIsraeli Premier League
Personal information
Born (1973-01-27) 27 January 1973
Palmanova, Friuli, Italy
NationalityItalian
Coaching career1997–present
Career history
As player:
2023–presentHapoel Eilat
As coach:
1997–1998Pallacanestro Reggiana (assistant)
1998–2003Juvenilia Reggio Emilia
2003–2006Reggiana (assistant)
2006–2007Reggiana
2007–2008Reggiana (assistant)
2009–2010Sutor Montegranaro (assistant)
2010–2011Reggiana (assistant)
2011–2018Reggiana
2018–2022Universo Treviso
2022Pallacanestro Reggiana
Career highlights and awards

Career

After spending years coaching the youth teams of Pallacanestro Reggiana and serving as assistant coach, Menetti was offered the head coach role for the 2006–07 season though he returned to the assistant role at the end of the season. After a stint at Sutor Montegranaro in 2009–10 (again as an assistant), he returned to Reggio Emilia. One year later he would be named head coach again, a position he would make his for the subsequent seasons. In 2014 he led Pallacanestro Reggiana to the EuroChallenge title.

On 1 July 2015, his contract was extended until 2017.[1] On 16 May 2018, Menetti and Pallacanestro Reggiana consensually parted ways, with one year of contract still left. Menetti left the club after 8 seasons as head coach since the 2011 takeover, winning promotion to Serie A in 2012, five consecutive Playoffs and Final Eight participation (2012–2017), one EuroChallenge (2014), one Italian Supercup (2015) and finishing two times as Serie A runners-up (2015, 2016) and reaching the EuroCup semifinals (2018).

From summer of 2018 Menetti is the head coach of Universo Treviso Basket. During the first season with Menneti at the helm, Treviso went on to win Serie A2 Basket play-off championship and got place in Serie A.

On July 28, 2023, he signed with Hapoel Eilat of the Israeli Basketball Premier League.<@hapoeleilat (28 July 2023). "עוד כריש באילת". Retrieved 31 July 2023 – via Instagram.

Personal

He is married with former Argentinian volleyball player Maria Pia Romanò, with whom he has a daughter. Romanò played for various seasons in Reggio Emilia, while Menetti was club assistant.

References
  1. "Menetti estende fino al 2017" [Menetti extends until 2017]. PallacanestroReggiana.it (in Italian). 1 July 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
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