has been one of the hottest coaching names in the volleyball community in recent weeks. However, not because of his results, but the fact that his club ended their cooperation with him on December 11 in quite controversial circumstances.
The former coach of Polish volleyball players returns to work with women. In December he was fired from the PlusLiga club
The Italian was fired after the media increasingly talked about the bad mood in the team and the deterioration of the atmosphere, which was supposed to be caused by Bonitta’s behavior. According to the journalists of “Gazeta Olsztyńska”, he treated his co-workers as “shit” and almost all his co-workers were fed up with him in Olsztyn.
Therefore, Bonitta crossed Poland with a large red line and is unlikely to return to work here. And yet he ran not only the PlusLiga club from Olsztyn, as well as volleyball players in 2007-2008. Interestingly, women’s volleyball is another, quite surprising, direction. The trainer seemed to have given up on her after leaving Italian women in 2017. However, this is the path checked by the coach and exactly the one on which he was most successful.
Marco Bonitta will become the new coach of the Slovenian women
However, it seems that he did not have many offers in men’s clubs and has bet on a return to national volleyball in the women’s edition. According to Sport.pl, Bonitta will become the new coach of the Slovenian representatives.
The official announcement of his signing of the contract is expected on Monday afternoon. Slovenian journalists have already received an invitation to the press conference of the local federation.
Bonitta was most successful years ago. Now he has to build a strong young team
Bonitta will replace the current coach, Alessandro Chiappini, who was recently one of the official candidates for the position of the coach of the Polish volleyball team. Ultimately, however, the Polish Volleyball Federation chose Stefan Lavarini. Maybe better, because the Slovenes got rid of Chiappini due to the poor result in qualifying for last year’s European championship, where he lost even the worst team in the CEV ranking, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was released shortly after the defeat in May.
Marco Bonitta’s greatest coaching achievement is bringing the Italian women’s national team to gold in the 2002 World Cup, as well as the two-time European vice-championship in 2001 and 2005. In 1998 and 1999 he also became the Italian champion with the players from Foppapedretti Bergamo.
He is certainly an interesting trainer and specialist with proven working methods, but recently he has been unsuccessfully looking for a return to the successes from years ago. Opinions about his parting with the club from Olsztyn probably will not help him at the beginning of his work in. There, however, he has a very young team of players that he can build to play for higher goals. And such a task will be placed before him by the Slovenian union.
Source: Sport
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