Ever since arriving here in the Philippines for the FIBA World Cup, Italy men's basketball coach Gianmarco Pozzecco had always been looking for Filipino boxing great Manny Pacquiao.

A big fan of the world's only eight-division champion, Pozzecco even quipped during his post-game pressers that he wanted to fight Pacquiao and that the former senator is afraid for not showing up.

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