Cesare Rubini

Cesare Rubini (born November 2, 1923 in Trieste , † February 8, 2011 in Milan ) was an Italian basketball coach and player and water polo player .

Career

From 1947 to 1978 he coached the Olimpia Milano team in the first Italian basketball league . Until 1955 he was also active as a player, he also took part for the Italian national basketball team in the European Championship in 1946 and won the silver medal there. He won the title 15 times (1950–54, 1957–60, 1962–63, 1965–67, 1972) with this team. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, he led the Italian national team to win the silver medal. Rubini was the founder of the World Association of Basketball Coaches in 1979 and President until 2002 . He had been a member of the FIBA Central Committee since 1984 . On May 9, 1994, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach . He received the FIBA Order of Merit in November 2002.

Rubini played at the Olympic Games in London in 1948 and at the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 for the Italian national water polo team and won gold and bronze respectively. In 2000 he was inducted into the international swimming pool 's hall of fame . In 2013, more than two years after his death, he was also inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame as a coach.

See also

• List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Web links

• Cesare Rubini in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)
• Cesare Rubini as a coach in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame . On: Hoophall website; Springfield, MA, 2019. Retrieved March 9, 2019 (in English).
• Cesare Rubini as a coach in the FIBA Hall of Fame . On: FIBA ​​website; Mies, Switzerland, 2019. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
• Cesare Rubini at: Sports Reference website; Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2016. Retrieved March 9, 2019 (in English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (rpo): At the age of 87: Water polo and basketball legend Rubini died. On: Rheinische Post website; Düsseldorf, February 8, 2011. Accessed March 9, 2019.