When the Auriemma family in 1961 left the American boat after traveling from Italy, it was like many others. You were looking for a better life. The family came from the southern Italian town of Montella, where they lived under fairly pervasive conditions. Of course, no one could imagine that Luigi, who was seven years old when the family arrived in Pennsylvania, would achieve icon status in the new home country. And that he would do it within the ladies basket was probably not in the mind world. As an Italian, the family's sports interests restricted to football, but for Luigi, who later became Geno, there was no football team near the new home, so he started baseball. That he entered basketball, and specifically dambasket, was almost coincidentally as if he had stumbled on a banana ball.
At high school, Geno began playing basketball and when he was asked by a friend to be a coach of the ninth grade class, he was set up and became quite fast. Among other things, because of his surprise, he discovered that the players listened to him when he spoke to them. Through the first "real" coach job, assistant at the University of Virginia, he got -81, he landed as head coach in UConn and the school's team four years later. The rest is basketball history and none of what happened after that day can be likened to coincidences. Instead, it has been 32 years of consistent and goal-oriented work that made him, with UConn, building a dynasty that is unmatched in the college bazaar.
Auriemma and UConn have sailed for a successful wave of less than 30, and he himself has a life that many ways are unworthy of. He is an indisputable ruler in America's most respected basketball team and has also become an extremely wealthy man so far from the miserable conditions of Montella that one can only imagine. And maybe he will soon check out the position he built on UConn. But first he has a lot to do.
Last fall, he agreed with his employer to extend the contract as a five-year head coach at UConn, ie until 2021. The agreement guarantees him $ 13 million in salary during the contract period. That's equivalent to about SEK 113 million and is of course more than any other ladies coach at college earns. After the contract period, he is guaranteed $ 400,000 a year for five years if he stays in UConns organization. All of this clearly shows what value management puts on his services. And of course there are other fringes in the new agreement, such as cars, tickets for all sports that UConn participates in and family membership in a well-renowned golf club.
Geno Auriemma also has other iron in the fire, next to the basketball. Based on his Italian heritage, he markets a line of wines and one with pasta sauces, and is about to build a restaurant chain. Currently, there are two independent restaurants called Geno's Grille and four units at a resort called Mohegan Sun.
None of this would have been possible if he had not been awarded the head coach at UConn in 1985, because there were a lot of more qualified applicants for the job. And it would not have been if he had not managed to build his outstanding program at school. When I met Auriemma during Bartonclinic, I asked about the story that when he wrote for UConn was really true, that is, he took the job without even seeing the school or facilities.
- Yes, it's true. I instinctively felt that it was right, so I signed the contract, which was just a piece of paper, during a meeting at Dunkin'Donuts, Auriemma told me.
When he later set foot on UConn for the first time, he discovered that there was no dressing room for the girls and that the ceiling in the hall leaked like a sieve, to the slight extent that it made it impossible for training. But Auriemma did not let down. Everything could only be better and it became undeniable.
It is understood that 31-year-old Auriemma did not hesitate when he got the chance at UConn. Not only because it was a head coach job at a major university. When he came to school, UConn had only experienced a season when they won more matches than they lost. And everybody knows that in some sense it is easier to get a task where there is only one way to take, the one who is carrying up. Auriemama's first season also went on minus, 12-15, but also became the only since then. Seasonal season improved the team's table position and -89, they broke into the NCAA final for the first time. The first national title won in 1991 and after that it has become another ten, more than any other collegecoach, inklsuive John Wooden, with.
An obvious question to Auriemma was, of course, how just he and UConn succeeded with what everyone seeks. How did it happen?
"It took time, but we set up a program that we believed in and became better and better. We initially tried to create a winning culture and put pressure on ourselves to win matches. The first few years we succeeded
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