Hugo Sconochini

Hugo Sconochini
Player information
Full name	Hugo Ariel Sconochini
birthday	April 10, 1971
place of birth	Cañada de Gómez, Argentina
size	192 cm
position	Shooting Guard
Clubs as active
1989–1990 Sport Club Canada de Gomez 1990–1993 Viola Reggio Calabria 1993–1995 Olimpia Milano 1995–1996 Virtus Rome 1996–1997 Panathinaikos Athens 1997–2001 Virtus Bologna 2001–2002 TAU Cerámica 2002–2004 Olimpia Milano 2004–2006 Virtus Lottomatica Rome 2007–2009 UC Piacentina 2009–2010 Gamma Marc. Segrate 2010–2012 Bettinzoli Monticelli
National team
	Argentina

Hugo Sconochini medal table
Basketball (men)
Argentina
Olympic games
gold	2004 Athens	{{{3}}}
World championships
silver	2002 Indianapolis	{{{3}}}
American Championship
bronze	1999 San Juan
gold	2001 Neuquén	{{{6}}}

Hugo Sconochini (born April 10, 1971 in Cañada de Gómez , Argentina ) is a retired Argentine basketball player . Sconochini was Olympic champion with the Argentine national team at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens .

Career

Hugo Sconochini began his professional career in 1989 with the Argentine club Cañada de Gómez where he was under contract for one season. With his move in 1990 after Europe began for the shooting guard a successful career in which he mainly in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A was active.

After a total of six years with Viola Reggio Calabria, Olimpia Milan and Virtus Rome, Sconochini moved to Panathinaikos Athens in 1996, where he won the first professional title of his career with the Intercontinental Cup that same year . After just one year, Sconochini moved back to the Italian league to Virtus Bologna. At Bologna he played for four seasons and was to experience the most successful phase of his career. In addition to two championships and just as many successes in the Italian Cup, Sconochini was able to win the European Cup in 1998 and the ULEB Euroleague , which was held for the first time in 2001. After a one-year stay in Spain , where he won the Copa del Rey with TAU Cerámica in 2002 , Sconochini returned to Italy in 2002, where he played for his previous clubs Olimpia Milano and Virtus Roma.

From 2007 Sconochini no longer played professionally in lower-class Italian leagues, initially with the fifth division UC Piacentina, with whom he rose to the fourth-highest division "Serie B Dilettanti" in 2009. While this club rose to the second division in the 2011/12 season, Sconochini played for other amateur teams until 2012.

National team

Sconochini achieved his greatest success with the Argentine national team in 2004 when he won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Athens . At the 2002 World Cup he finished second with Argentina. Another significant success was the gold medal at the 2001 American Championships in his own country.

successes

• Italian champion : 1998, 2001
• Italian Cup : 1999, 2001
• Spanish Cup : 2002
• Intercontinental Cup : 1996
• European Champion Clubs' Cup : 1998
• ULEB Euroleague : 2001
• Olympic Champion: 2004
• American champions : 2001
• Vice World Champion: 2002

Web links

• Players - Hugo Ariel Sconochini (ARG). archive.fiba.com - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• Sconochini, Hugo - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)
• Hugo Sconochini. Legabasket - player profile on the websites of Serie A (Italian)