Andrés Nocioni

Andrés Nocioni
Player information
Full name	Andrés Marcelo Nocioni
Nickname	Chapu
birthday	30th November 1979 (age 40)
place of birth	Santa Fe , Argentina
size	201 cm
Weight	102 kg
position	Small forward / power forward
NBA draft	2001 , undrafted
Clubs as active
1995–1996 Racing Club de Avellaneda 1996–1997 Tuerto Olimpia Venado 1997–1999 Pico Independiente General 1999–2000 TAU Cerámica 2000–2001 TDK Bàsquet Manresa 2001–2004 TAU Cerámica 2004–2008 Chicago Bulls 2009–2010 Sacramento Kings 2010–2012 Philadelphia 76ers 2012-2014 Laboral Kutxa 2014-2017 Real Madrid
National team
000000000	Argentina

Andrés Nocioni medal table
Basketball (men)
Argentina
Olympic games
gold	2004 Athens
bronze	2008 Beijing
World Championship
silver	2002 Indianapolis
American Championship
bronze	1999 San Juan
gold	2001 Neuquén
silver	2003 San Juan
gold	2011 Mar del Plata
silver	2015 Mexico City

Andrés Marcelo Nocioni (born November 30, 1979 in Santa Fe ) is a former Argentine - Italian basketball player .

career

Club career

After his time in the Argentine first division, Nocioni moved to Spain in 1999. There he played for TAU Cerámica Vitoria in the ULEB EuroLeague and the Spanish ACB league .

On August 11, 2004, he was hired by the Chicago Bulls as a free agent . After four years as a player with the Bulls, Nocioni went to the Sacramento Kings and later to Philadelphia .

From 2012 to 2017 Nocioni played again in the Spanish ACB league , as well as in the EuroLeague .

National team

Andrés Nocioni plays for the Argentine national team , with whom he won the gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece . In 2008, the Argentine selection at the Olympic Games in Beijing reached third place and thus the bronze medal.

At the 2010 Basketball World Cup in Turkey, Nocioni could only be present as a spectator. Although he traveled with the team to the tournament, his club at the time, the Philadelphia 76ers , forbade him to participate after an injury sustained in the training camp.

Trivia

The peculiarity of Nocioni was his insatiable ambition. He often ran up despite injuries where other players would avoid the field. For this reason, he earned the nickname "Chapu", after the Latin American comic superhero El Chapulin Colorado.

Web links

Commons : Andrés Nocioni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Andrés Nocioni - player profile on NBA.com
• Andrés Nocioni - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• NOCIONI, ANDRES - Profile on the website of the Euroleague ( English )
• Andrés Nocioni - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NOCIONI, ANDRES - Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL. In: euroleague.net. Retrieved May 14, 2020 (English).