Federico Fuc\u00e0 has joined Colombia\u2019s coaching staff for the second round of the 2027 FIBA World Cup qualifiers. The Pallacanestro Reggiana assistant returns to international basketball after spending four years with Italy\u2019s national-team program.<\/p>\n
Fuc\u00e0 will focus particularly on tactical and defensive preparation. \u201cThis experience will enrich me professionally and personally,\u201d he said. Reggiana center Jaime Echenique has also been selected by head coach Tomas Diaz.<\/p>\n
Colombia will open the window on Friday night against Mexico in Zacatecas before facing the United States in Washington on September 1. The two appointments were officially announced by Pallacanestro Reggiana<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Italian assistant will work alongside head coach Tomas Diaz during the 2027 World Cup qualifiers, with Jaime Echenique also selected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":511704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[195,369,259,323],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-511705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball-champions-league","category-national-teams","category-serie-a","category-world","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/IMG_6210.JPG.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511705"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=511705"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=511705"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=511705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}