Gianluca Basile

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Basketball player
Gianluca Basile
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Player information
Nickname Mandarineri
birthday January 24, 1975
place of birth Ruvo di Puglia, Italy
size 192 cm
position Point Guard /
Shooting Guard
Clubs as active
1995–1999 Pallacanestro Reggiana 1999–2005 Fortitudo Bologna 2005–2011 FC Barcelona 2011–2012 Bennet Cantù 2012–2013 AJ Milano 2013–2016 Orlandina BasketItalyItaly
ItalyItaly
SpainSpain
ItalyItaly
ItalyItaly
ItalyItaly
National team 1
1997-2007 Italy 209 games
1 As of October 13, 2008
Gianluca Basile
medal table

Basketball (men)

ItalyItaly Italy
Olympic games
silver 2004 Athens
European Championship
bronze 2003 Sweden
gold 1999 France

Gianluca Basile (born January 24, 1975 in Ruvo di Puglia , Apulia ) is a former Italian basketball player . He is known above all as a good shooter from beyond the three-point line , which earned him the nickname "Mandarineri" in his home country and is considered one of the specialists in "tiro ignorante" ( German  "Wilder", but also emergency three-point throw ). Most recently he played for the club Orlandina Basket .

Club career

With Pallacanestro Reggiana , where he had been in the professional squad since 1995, Basile rose to Serie A1 in 1997 . During the 1998/99 season he moved to Fortitudo Bologna , where he stayed until 2005. With this club he was Italian champion in 2000 and 2005 and reached the finals in 2004 and the semifinals of the Euroleague in 2001 . In addition, Basile was awarded MVP in Serie A for the 2004 regular season and the 2005 final series . This was followed by a move to FC Barcelona , with whom he celebrated winning the Spanish Cup in 2007 and the Euroleague in 2010. After he could only be used in a championship game in the 2010/11 season due to an injury, Basile left the Catalan club and returned to his homeland, where he first played for the Italian runners-up from Cantù . After one season, he switched to Olimpia Milano in 2012, which operated under the name “EA7 Armani Jeans”. From 2013 to 2016 he played for Orlandina Basket , where he was active in the top division of Italy for two more years after the club's rise in 2014.

National team career

Basile was a fixture in the national team for years , with which he won the title at the 1999 European Basketball Championship . After the resignation of Carlton Myers , he became the regular player in his position in 2001 and was among other things top scorer of the national team in the finals during the 2004 Olympic Games . In the semi-final against Lithuania alone , Basile scored 31 points, including seven successful three-point throws in eleven attempts. After the elimination in the round of 16 of the basketball world championship 2006 against Lithuania, in the final seconds of which he had awarded three free throws, he wanted to resign, especially since his successor was found in Marco Belinelli , but national coach Carlo Recalcati was able to persuade him to continue. At the subsequent European Championship , however, Basile disappointed and remained in four of his six games without a hit from the field.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gianluca Basile / FCBarcelona.cat. FC Barcelona (basketball) , accessed on December 17, 2012 (English, player portrait for the 2010/11 season).
  2. ↑ ¡Triplazo ganador de Basile! ACB League , June 11, 2009, accessed on December 17, 2012 (Spanish, video on ACB.TV about the first final game of the 2008/09 championship).
  3. ↑ 2004 Olympic Games: Tournament for Men - Game: ITALY vs LITHUANIA. FIBA, August 27, 2004, accessed on December 17, 2012 (English, match statistics for the Olympic semi-finals in the archive).
  4. ^ Gianluca Basile's profile / 2007 EuroBasket. FIBA, accessed on December 17, 2012 (English, tournament statistics in the archive).
personal data
SURNAME Basile, Gianluca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruvo di Puglia , Apulia