February 22, 2012
Mastermind Coaching unites Ettore Messina, Aito Garcia Reneses, Zeljko Obradovic, Xavi Pascual and Sergio Scariolo

Perhaps for the first time in a single program, the newest edition of the Euroleague Basketball Institute, Mastermind Coaching Seminars, brings together Europes mastermind coaches to share their philosophy, knowledge, methods and strategies to give coaches around the world the edge through an e-learning platform.

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Jordi Bertomeu
Euroleague Basketball CEO Jordi Bertomeu
"Once more I would like to express my deep appreciation for the remarkablehard work and commitment that Ettore, Aito, Zeljko, Xavi and Sergio have shown us by placing their expert knowledge at our disposal and that of all the coaches who will participate in the fifth edition of this innovative endeavour. The success of the previous four editions gives us an enormous sense of satisfaction and inspires us to continue working to ensure that the great quality of our European coaches reaches all four corners of the globe."
Ettore Messina
Coach Ettore Messina
"This will be my fifth participation in the Mastermind Coaching Seminars, which are unique in the world, using on-line lessons, allowing us to go much deeper into the concepts that we discuss than a traditional clinic.”
Aito Garcia Reneses
Coach Aito Garcia Reneses
"In all previous sessions, all of us – both coaches and students – have had an incredible experience that I hope to repeat and improve upon in this new edition. The possibility of working with coaches from everywhere in the word and to exchange opinions and very different ways of seeing and understanding basketball has been truly thrilling.”
Zeljko Obradovic
Panathinaikos head coach Zeljko Obradovic
"Bringing together the Serbian, Italian and Spanish coaching philosophies is a premium exchange of European basketball concepts. E-learning is a system that breaks barriers and frontiers by allowing coaches from all over the world an opportunity to know our way of understanding basketball and of putting that knowledge into practice with our teams. I believe the Euroleague has created a pioneering model of a clinic that is very interesting for promoting European basketball."
Xavi Pascual
FC Barcelona Regal head coach Xavi Pascual
“Having been a Head Coach for only three full seasons in the Euroleague, it has been a great challenge to compete against the three Head Coaches already a part of this project. I hope that sharing some of the principles we apply at Regal FC Barcelona can help participants learn more about our team and our basketball philosophy. As our club is well known around the world, I hope to also share this with coaches around the globe.”
Sergio Scariolo
EA7 Emporio Armani head coach Sergio Scariolo
"In the same way that it was a great honour to sit on one of the two benches of the first ever Euroleague game: Real Madrid-Olympiacos, it is also a privilege and a pleasure to enter into the team of coaches participating in the Euroleague Basketball Institute. Having the opportunity to share knowledge with coaches from all over the world will be a terrific experience for me, and hopefully for all the basketball community who will be interested in joining this trip throughout thirty years of professional European basketball in club teams of three different leagues (Italian, Spanish, Russian), as well as the Spanish National team."