The new technical staff that will support coach Sandro Dell’Agnello during the 2024/2025 season is taking shape. Rivierabanca Basket Rimini announces that it has reached an agreement with Sergio Luise, who will occupy the role of assistant coach of the first team of Serie A2. Caserta native, born on 3 July 1977, Sergio has just returned from two years as head coach in his hometown team, Juve Caserta 2021, playing in the Serie B tournament. Luise is a highly experienced coach, with a curriculum spanning twenty years not only as an assistant in Serie A2 but also in Serie A1. Graduated in environmental sciences and motor sciences, the trainer boasts in-depth knowledge and professional respect with coach Sandro Dell’Agnello, having already worked together as a couple in the Forlì days.
Luise’s basketball career, after a past as a player in the minor leagues, is closely intertwined with the history of Juve Caserta. It was in his city that Sergio began his career first as a youth coach, before arriving as an assistant coach in Legadue and Serie A1. Since 2014 the choice to undertake paths far from his city: in Vasto as head of the youth sector and head coach, then in 2016/2017 assistant in Serie A2 in Recanati, in 2017/2018 assistant at Viola Reggio Calabria, from 2018 to 2020 assistant in Scafati and in 2021-2022 first assistant at Pallacanestro Forlì with Sandro Dell’Agnello. In the last two years the return home, to his Caserta.
Now comes the call from Rinascita Basket Rimini. Coach Sergio Luise says immediately after the agreement reached with the club: “I am very happy to be able to be part of the club, first coach Sandro Dell’Agnello then Alessandro Bolognesi contacted me: it was easy to choose Rimini and opt to act as assistant to Sandro, even in the face of offers that had been received as head coach in Serie B. I have observed the growth of the Rimini club with pleasure and admiration. The coach spoke well to me about the environment and the ambition of the club, I was looking for a professional project where I could work at my best and with important ambitions.”
On his professional path he will find coach Sandro Dell’Agnello again: “I worked with Sandro for a year in Forlì, it was positive for both of us: we both like to work in warm places and knowing the passion of Rimini it was easy to accept this new adventure ”.
