Antonello Riva

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Basketball player
Antonello Riva
Player information
Nickname Nembo Kid
birthday February 28, 1962
place of birth Rovagnate , Italy
size 196 cm
position Shooting Guard /
Small Forward
Clubs as active
1977–1989 Pallacanestro Cantù 1989–1994 Olimpia Milano 1994–1996 Scavolini Pesaro 1996–1998 Pallacanestro Gorizia 1998–2002 Pallacanestro Cantù 2002–2005 Basket RietiItalyItaly
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National team
1981-1991 Italy 213 games

Antonello Riva (born February 28, 1962 in Rovagnate , Lombardy ) is an Italian former basketball player who was active from 1977 to 2005. He holds the record for the most points scored both in the top Italian league and in the national team .

Antonello Riva was honored in May 2008 as one of the fifty great personalities of the sport of basketball in Europe . The award was given by the Euroleague Basketball in an official ceremony in the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid , in Madrid ( Spain ).

Career

In the club

Riva began his career with Pallacanestro Cantù in 1977 , where he stayed until 1989. He quickly developed into the club's most offensively dangerous player. The introduction of the three-point line in 1984 brought the good distance shooter further advantages, so that his point quota rose to an average of 31.2 per game. Due to the strong competition from Dražen Dalipagić and especially Oscar Schmidt , however, he was never top scorer of a season.

Riva won titles with Cantù, however, especially in his early years. These include three wins in the European Cup Winners 'Cup, the Italian championship in 1981 and the following two victories in the European Cup Winners' Cup . Subsequently, however, Riva could no longer reach the championship finals with Cantù and finally moved to the Italian champions Olimpia Milano .

At Milano, Riva played with star players such as Bob McAdoo and Aleksandar Đorđević , but here too, with the exception of the victory in the Korać Cup in 1993, there was no success . His statistical values ​​also fell noticeably, especially from 1991, which also changed little in 1994 when he switched to Scavolini Pesaro . After two seasons in Serie A2 at Pallacanestro Gorizia , Riva returned to Cantù, where he played until 2002. Riva's career ended with the lower-class Club Basket Rieti .

Riva is the A1 series record scorer with 13,275 points in 727 games and the only player to break the 10,000 mark. In addition, towards the end of his career he exceeded Oscar Schmidt's record number of points for series A1 and series A2 combined. Ultimately, Riva got 14,397 points, Schmidt on the other hand to 13,957, for which he had needed significantly fewer games. With 8,491 points scored for Cantù, Riva is also just behind his long-time teammate Pierluigi Marzorati (8,659) within the club .

In the national team

In the first major tournament that Riva played for the Italian national team , namely the European Championship in 1981 , he finished 5th. He celebrated his greatest triumph with the national team in 1983 when he won the European Championship , at which he also became the top scorer for the Italians at the age of just 21. In 1984 Riva led his team to 5th place in the Olympic Games with an average of 23.4 points.

After he had missed the European Championship in 1985 due to an injury, Riva retired with Italy at the 1986 World Cup and the 1987 European Championship in the quarter-finals. The 4th place at the EM 1989 was followed by a rather disappointing 9th place at the 1990 World Cup despite an average of 29.4 points per game from Riva, which made him the second best scorer of the tournament after Oscar Schmidt . He was able to celebrate a successful conclusion to his national team career in 1991 with the European Championship finals. In total, Riva scored 3,785 points in 213 international matches, over 900 more than any other Italian international.

successes

At club level

At national team level

Individual records

  • Top scorer in Serie A1 (13,275 points in 727 games) and Serie A in total (14,397 points in 797 games)
  • Top scorer of the Italian national team (3,785 points in 213 games)
  • second best scorer in the 1990 World Cup (235 points in 8 games)
  • highest number of points scored in a game for the Italian national team (46 against Switzerland's selection in 1987)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 50 Contributors, Honored in Madrid ( Memento of July 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Riva, Antonello
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Rovagnate , Lombardy