Antimo Martino (born 16 August 1978) is an Italian basketball coach, currently managing

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in the Lega Serie A2. He has also served as the head coach for

Fortitudo Bologna Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna 103, commonly known as Fortitudo Bologna and currently known as Fortitudo Kiğılı Bologna for sponsorship reasons, is a basketball club based in Bologna, Italy and currently plays in the second division. Histor ...

Career

Antimo Martino started his coach-career with

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as assistant coach from 2005 to 2014. He became head-coach for the first time with Basket Ravenna in the Serie A2 league in 2014 and the following 4 seasons. Martino had a big success with Ravenna reaching the A2 Playoffs' semifinals of the 2016–17 season. In 2018 he reached the final of the

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. On 12 June 2018 Martino became the new head-coach of

. He won the 2018 A2 Supercup and, in March 2019, he achieved the promotion to LBA, the men's top professional

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division of the

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. He was named as best coach of the 2018–19 A2 season. With Martino,

won their 1st A2 title by beating

in the

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. He was hired by

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on 27 May 2021 for the 2020–21 season. But on 25 March 2021 he was removed from his place after a disappointing losing streak. At the beginning of the 2021–22 season, Martino was called back to

to replace

Jasmin Repeša Jasmin Repeša (born 1 June 1961) is a Bosnian-born Croatian professional basketball coach and former player whose last coached team was Fortitudo Bologna of the Italian Serie A. Repeša has won numerous pro club competitions during his head coa ...

who resigned after only one official match in the

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Honours and titles

Head coach *

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: 1 :

(2019) * LNP Supercup: 1 :

(2018)

References

External links

Antimo Martino profile at Legabasket.it

Profile at playbasket.it
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