Giuseppe Poeta

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Basketball player
Giuseppe Poeta
Poeta 2010 in the shirt of Virtus Bologna
Player information
birthday September 12, 1985
place of birth Battipaglia, Italy
size 190 cm
position Point guard
Clubs as active
2000–2005 Pallacanestro Salerno 2005–2006 Prima Veroli 2006–2010 Teramo Basket 2010–2013 Virtus Bologna 2014 Laboral Kutxa 2014–2015 Bàsquet Manresa 2015–2016 Aquila Basket Trento Since 2016 Auxilium Pallacanestro TorinoItalyItaly
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National team
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Giuseppe Poeta (born September 12, 1985 in Battipaglia , Campania ) is an Italian basketball player . Poeta did not come to Teramo Basket until 2006 in the top Italian division Lega Basket Serie A , but was already a national player in the Italian men's national team the following year . After Poeta moved to Virtus Bologna, his jersey number was withdrawn after only four years of playing in Teramo and has not been awarded since then. In the 2013/14 season, the European Championship finalists moved from 2013 to Laboral Kutxa in the Spanish ACB league .

Career

In his youth, Poeta played club basketball first in his hometown and then in the provincial capital Salerno , whose men's team was playing in the fourth division, Serie B2. At the age of 20, Poeta moved to the third-class B1 series for the club from Veroli in 2005 . Although he missed the promotion to the professional legadue again for the time being , Poeta was able to attract attention to the extent that the first division club from Teramo in Abruzzo signed him for the following season. In the 2006/07 season, the team reached fourth from last place in the table, relegation, but the 21-year-old professional newcomer Poeta was able to secure an average of 16 minutes per game in the first division. In the following season Poeta was starting point guard with an average of 28 minutes playing time and scored an average of just under 12 points and 5 assists per game, whereupon he was appointed to the extended squad of the Italian men's national team. After an eleventh place in the 2007/08 season, Teramo achieved with the new name sponsor Banca Tercas 2009 with the third place the best placement in the club's history. In the first play-off participation for the Italian championship, however, the team failed in the first round against record champions Olimpia Armani Milan . After, among others, the Americans Jaycee Carroll and David J. Moss had left the club, they could no longer connect to these successes in the 2009/10 season and slipped back into the lower half of the table to eleventh place. Also in the Eurocup 2009/10 one had already failed in the preliminary round against the later German finalist Alba Berlin . When Poeta then left Teramo at the end of the season and switched to league competitor and old master Virtus from Bologna , he was honored by withdrawing his jersey number 8, which was no longer to be awarded from then on.

With Virtus Bologna Poeta reached the eighth place in the main round in the 2010/11 season just barely making it into the play-offs, in which they were eliminated in the first round against series champion Montepaschi Siena . The following season they improved back to fifth place to be eliminated without a win in the first round against Banco di Sardegna Sassari . In the 2012/13 season, Virtus even missed the play-offs in 14th and third from last place for the third time since returning to the first division in 2005. After Poeta had previously only played in qualifying matches for the national team, he was also a member of the final squad for the first time at the 2013 European Championship finals, in which, however, he only made short appearances as a supplementary player. Italy won all five preliminary round games, but then only won the last intermediate round game against defending champions Spain and lost in particular in the quarter-finals and in the placement games, which meant that they missed qualifying for the 2014 World Basketball Championship . In the 2013/14 season Poeta was initially without a contract and was then brought to Laboral Kutxa in Vitoria-Gasteiz by the Italian club coach Sergio Scariolo . For the Basque team, he had ten appearances in the second round of the top 16 teams in the top-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 , but in which they missed the quarter-final play-offs of the competition for the second time in ten years. Also in the Spanish ACB league it was less successful for the successful club, where they achieved the worst placement in eleven years in sixth place and were eliminated in the first round of the play-offs against eventual champions FC Barcelona . Despite only taking part in the final round, Poeta is one of the most experienced players in an Italian national team that has been rejuvenated for qualifying for the 2015 European Championship with almost 100 appearances.

Web links

Commons : Giuseppe Poeta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefano Valenti: Roma-Siena spettacolo - In dieci per la Final Eight: Poeta Day. La Repubblica , January 15, 2011, accessed July 22, 2014 (Italian).
  2. ↑ ACB.COM: Giuseppe Poeta. Liga ACB , accessed July 22, 2014 (Spanish, player profile).
personal data
SURNAME Poeta, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Battipaglia , Campania, Italy