Achille Polonara
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| Player information | ||
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| birthday | November 23, 1991 | |
| place of birth | Ancona, Italy | |
| size | 205 cm | |
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Power Forward / Small Forward |
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| Club information | ||
| society | Dinamo Sassari | |
| league | Lega Basket Serie A | |
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2008–2012 Teramo Basket 2012–2014 Cimberio Varese 2014–2017 Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia Since 2017 Dinamo Sassari
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| Since 2012 | Italy | |
Achille Polonara (born November 23, 1991 in Ancona , Marche ) is an Italian basketball player . Polonara became vice-European champion with the Italian U20 junior selection in 2011 and, as a professional player, has so far only played for Italian club teams. Since summer 2012, Polonara has also been a national player in the Italian men's selection .
Career
Polonara was part of the squad of the Italian first division club from Teramo in Abruzzo in the 2008/09 season as a 17-year-old . The following season he came to his first short appearances in the top division Lega Basket Serie A , but the team missed in eleventh place the renewed entry into the play-offs for the championship. In the 2010/11 season they even fell back to the 15th and penultimate place in the table and managed to stay in the league only through an exception regulation of the league. With the Italian junior selection, Polonara lost the final match against hosts Spain at the U20 European Championship and won the silver medal. In the following first division season Teramo reached the 14th and fourth from bottom place in the league expanded by one team to keep the league, but the club's financial resources were so exhausted that they could not get a new license.
For the 2012/13 season, Polonara moved to previous league rivals and old champions Cimberio from Varese , where he played with his U20 national team-mate Andrea De Nicolao . In the 2012/13 season, Varese reached the final in the "Coppa Italia" cup competition, which was lost by just three points to series champion Montepaschi Siena , and improved from eighth place in the previous season to first place after the main round. In the play-off semi-final series for the championship it was against defending champion Siena, who lost in the seventh and decisive game. As in the previous season for Teramo, Polonara won the award as the best young player (U22) in the Italian league in Varese. When the Americans Michael E. Green and Bryant Dunston had left the club for the following 2013/14 season, Varese missed the return to the play-offs in tenth place. Polonara then moved to the reigning EuroChallenge title holder Pallacanestro Reggiana in Reggio nell'Emilia .
Web links
- Legabasket: Achille Polonara - player profile on the websites of the Serie A ( Italian )
- Nazionali - Giocatori: Achille Polonara - Profile on the FIP website (Italian)
- POLONARA, ACHILLE - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
- archive.fiba.com: Players - Achille POLONARA (ITA) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spain Stay Perfect To Become Champions. FIBA Europa , July 24, 2011, accessed on July 21, 2014 (English, official match report).
- ^ Basket, Datome è la stella, Polonara la speranza. Gazzetta dello Sport , May 2, 2013, accessed July 21, 2014 (Italian).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Polonara, Achille |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ancona , Marche, Italy |