Italian national basketball team
Italy Italia |
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Association | FIP |
FIBA member since | 1930 (founding member) |
FIBA world rankings | 16 |
Technical sponsor | champion |
Trainer | Romeo Sacchetti |
Record player | Pierluigi Marzorati (278) |
World championships | |
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Participation in the finals | 8th |
Best results | 4th place ( 1970 , 1978 ) |
Olympic games | |
Participation in the finals | 12 |
Best results | ( 1980 , 2004 ) |
Continental championships | |
championship | European Championship |
Participation in the finals | 37 |
Best results |
( 1983 , 1999 ) ( 1937 , 1946 , 1991 , 1997 ) ( 1971 , 1975 , 1985 , 2003 ) |
Homepage | fip.it |
(As of January 15, 2018) |
The Italian national basketball team is the selection of players from the Italian basketball federation FIP ( Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro ). She takes part in international national competitions for Italy and to date (as of September 2013) has competed eight times in basketball world championships , eleven times in the Olympic Games and 34 times in European championships .
Her greatest successes were two Olympic silver medals in 1980 in Moscow and 2004 in Athens as well as two European championships, won in France in 1983 and 1999 . The team won both European Championship finals against Spain .
Squad
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Performing in international tournaments
Olympic Summer Games
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World championships
European championships
National coach
- Elliott Van Zandt (1948–1951)
- Giancarlo Marinelli (January 1952 - March 1952)
- Amerigo Penzo (March 1952)
- Vittorio Tracuzzi (1952-1953)
- Francesco Ferrero (1954)
- Jim McGregor (1954-1956)
- Nello Paratore (1957–1968)
- Giancarlo Primo (1969–1979)
- Sandro Gamba (1979–1985, 1987–1992)
- Valerio Bianchini (1985-1987)
- Ettore Messina (1992–1997)
- Bogdan Tanjević (1997-2001)
- Carlo Recalcati (2001-2009)
- Simone Pianigiani (2009-2015)
- Ettore Messina (2015-2017)
- Romeo Sacchetti (2017–)
Record international player
International matches | Points scored | ||||
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space | Surname | Games | space | Surname | Points |
1 | Pierluigi Marzorati | 278 | 1 | Antonello Riva | 3785 |
2 | Dino Meneghin | 271 | 2 | Dino Meneghin | 2847 |
3 | Roberto Brunamonti | 256 | 3 | Renato Villalta | 2277 |
4th | Giacomo Galanda | 215 | 4th | Pierluigi Marzorati | 2209 |
5 | Walter Magnifico | 214 | 5 | Renzo Bariviera | 2151 |
6th | Antonello Riva | 213 | 6th | Walter Magnifico | 2026 |
7th | Gianluca Basile | 209 | 7th | Gregor Fučka | 1889 |
8th | Renzo Bariviera | 208 | 8th | Massimo Masini | 1852 |
9 | Renato Villalta | 206 | 9 | Carlton Myers | 1825 |
10 | Renzo Vecchiato | 202 | 10 | Roberto Brunamonti | 1631 |
Status: August 13, 2008; incl. games against all-star series A selections (held annually)
Awards
The Italian sports newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport voted the national team in 1980, 1983, 1997 and 1999 " Italy's Team of the Year ".
Individual evidence
- ↑ International match details on the official website of the Italian federation
- ↑ Point information on the official website of the Italian Federation