World of basketball in mourning, even in Sardinia. Gianni Zappi, 76, died in a car accident on the Gavia Pass in Brescia. The coach had coached the Esperia, in Cagliari, in '90 -'91, missing the A2 by a whisker, and the Dinamo in '97 -'98.

Among the founders of Andrea Costa Imola Basket in the seventies, he also sat on the benches of Osimo, Ancona and Florence.

Zappi then returned to Imola as technical director in two periods, first from 2006 to 2009 and then from 2014 until his farewell in 2021.

Today the accident, perhaps caused by an illness, which has forced the farewell to one of the columns of Italian basketball.

(Unioneonline / EF)

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