Enrico Obletter

Enrico Obletter was born in Sydney in 1959 and died in L'Aquila on 22 February 2021. He was a softball player, sports official and softball coach, an Australian who became a naturalised Italian. The Italian Wikipedia article says he moved to Abruzzo, the region his family came from, in 1984 and was signed that year by Chieti, helping the club to its historic promotion to the A2 league. After retiring he became the most successful manager in the history of Italian club softball, with nine league titles and three Italian Cups nationally and five European Champions Cups. From 2017 he led the Italian women's national softball team, winning the 2019 European championship and taking the team to qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, though he could not travel with the team because he died of complications from COVID-19 at the age of 62. This entry is written from the Italian Wikipedia article on Enrico Obletter, because the subject has no English Wikipedia article.