International Services

Professional Excellence Development Trip to Milan, Italy

Date: March 12-March 18, 2012

Program's Rationale:

  • Give participants a cultural international basketball development experience
  • Open new doors for basketball professionals from around the world to network with other professionals in the field
  • Allow participants to attend live practices of top professional teams in Italy
  • Allow participants to have exclusive "question and answer" periods with professional head coaches and general managers
  • Provide a development experience that is more exciting and rewarding than a simple clinic, where participants are able to learn in a "live-setting" and are able to see drills done at first-hand in a professional setting with professional athletes and Staff
  • Unlike most clinics, in this program, participants will have a closer contact and interaction period with the Staff of the professional organizations (e.g: Head Coach and General Manager), enhancing a more in-depth understanding of their work

Program's Description:

Participants (maximum of 20) will learn in a high performance professional training setting throughout an accelerated, concentrated and intense timeframe of 7 days.

Participants will have VIP access to all development programs (youth and senior) of 4 professional organizations in Italy's first division league (Lega Basket Serie A):

Package includes: hotel accommodation (with breakfast) and transportation to all scheduled activities throughout the timeframe of the program.

Special Features:

  • Question & answer period with Lega Basket Serie A General Mangers
  • Question & answer period with Lega Basket Serie A Coaches
  • Attend practices of Sergio Scariolo - 2011 FIBA Eurobasket Champion as Head Coach of Spain's Senior Men's National Team & current Head Coach of EA7-Emperio Armani Milano
  • Free admission to 1 professional game of Lega Basket Serie A

Trip PDF: Click to download milan2012.pdf

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