Bruno Cerella

Bruno Cerella
Player information
birthday	July 30, 1986 (34 years 33 days)
place of birth	Bahía Blanca, Argentina
size	194 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Small Forward
Club information
society	Umana Reyer Venezia
league	Lega Basket Serie A
Jersey number	30th
Clubs as active
2003–2004 Basket Massafra 2004–2005 Basket Sant'Agnese 2005–2006 Pallacanestro Salerno 2006–2008 Libertas Potenza 84 2008–2012 Teramo Basket 2010–2011 → UC Casalpusterlengo 2012–2013 Cimberio Varese 2013–2017 Olimpia Armani Milan 2017–2018 → Umana Reyer Venezia Since 2018 Umana Reyer Venezia 0
National team
Since 02009	Italy

Bruno Cerella (born July 30, 1986 in Bahía Blanca , Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine - Italian basketball player . Cerella went to Italy as a youngster, whose nationality he got as a result of his descent. Initially only active in the lower leagues in the men's division, he was able to draw attention to himself through appointments to the junior national team. In 2008 he came to Teramo Basket in the top division Lega Basket Serie A , where he stayed for four years with interruptions. Via Cimberio Varese he came to the record champions Olimpia Armani Milan in the 2013/14 season, with whom he won the Italian championship in 2014.

Career

Cerella learned to play basketball in his hometown in Argentina, which is known for this sport, where the most famous and successful Argentine basketball player Manu Ginóbili , who also played in Italy for four years at the beginning of his professional career, grew up. At the age of almost 18 Cerella went to Italy and made his first senior game in the 2003/04 season at the then sixth class club from Massafra . After stints with other lower-class southern Italian teams, he rose in 2007 with Potenza 84 in the then third-class B1 series. Due to good performances in the B1 series, he was appointed to the U22 junior national team of Italy and was able to attract the attention of the first division club from Teramo in Abruzzo , who made him part of the professional team in the top division Lega Basket Serie A for the 2008/09 season recorded. After two seasons as a supplementary player with rather short playing times of less than an average of ten minutes per game, Cerella was loaned to the then second division club Unione Cestistica from Casalpusterlengo for the 2010/11 season. After two seasons in the Legadue and eleventh place at the end of the 2011 season, the club withdrew from the second-highest division. Cerella returned to Teramo, where he was now an integral part of the rotation of players with an average of 25 minutes per game in the 2011/12 season. With nine points per game, he achieved his best in the Serie A. Teramo reached the fourth from bottom place in the table, the sporting league, but for economic reasons they received no license for another season.

For the 2012/13 season Cerella moved to the previous league competitor Cimberio from Varese in Lombardy . At the end of the regular season, the old champion and five-time national champion European Cup achieved first place in the regular season for the first time since the promotion. After being beaten in the national cup competition "Coppa Italia" by just three points difference between series champion and defending champion Montepaschi Siena , they were eliminated in the play-off semi- final series of the championship after seven games against the renewed double winner Siena . Although Cerella's playing times in Varese had dropped below ten minutes per game, the defensive role player was signed for the 2013/14 season by record champions Olimpia Armani from Milan, with whom he also played in the top-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 . There, one could relatively easily for the first time in the recent history of the ULEB Euro League since 2001 for the quarter-final play-offs to qualify, where Milan as a team with home advantage in the first game against Maccabi Tel Aviv favors on a place in the Final Four took in which you would have had "home right" again as the host team. But Maccabi won the series and then celebrated winning the title in the Mediolanum Forum in Milan . In the play-offs of the Italian championship, Milan was able to dethrone defending champion Siena after seven titles in a row in the final series.

Web links

Commons : Bruno Cerella  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Legabasket: Bruno Cerella - player profile on the websites of the Serie A ( Italian )
• Cerella, BRUNO - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )

Individual evidence

1. ^ NN: EA7 Milan tabs Cerella. ( Memento of July 29, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Archived from the EuroLeague website; Barcelona, ​​July 26, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2019.