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Vesa Vertio
BC Rytas
PositionAssistant coach
LeagueLKL
Personal information
Born (1983-03-05) 5 March 1983 (age 43)
Helsinki, Finland
Listed height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Coaching career2007–present
Career history
Playing
2002–2003Torpan Pojat
Coaching
2007–2016Tapiolan Honka (assistant)
2016–2019Crailsheim Merlins (assistant)
2019–2023Helsinki Seagulls (assistant)
2023–2025Helsinki Seagulls
2025–presentRytas Vilnius (assistant)
Career highlights
As head coach

As assistant coach:

Vesa Vertio (born 5 March 1983) is a Finnish professional basketball coach, currently working as assistant coach of Rytas Vilnius in Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL).

Career

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After a short playing career,[1] Vertio started coaching the youth teams of Espoon Honka and later Tapiolan Honka. Since 2007, he worked also as the first team's assistant coach.

Between 2016 and 2019, Vertio worked as assistant coach of Crailsheim Merlins in German ProA and the Basketball Bundesliga in a coaching staff of Tuomas Iisalo, whom he had met earlier in Honka.

In 2019, he returned to Finland and joined Korisliiga team Helsinki Seagulls, and was named the team's head coach in 2023. At the end of his first season as head coach, they finished 2nd in the league, and one year later Vertio guided Seagulls to win the club's second Finnish championship title.[2]

In July 2025, Vertio moved to Lithuania and started as lead assistant coach of LKL club Rytas Vilnius.[3]

Personal life

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His brothers Timo and Panu Vertio [fi] are former basketball players.

References

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