Marco Baldi (basketball player, 1962)

Marco Baldi
Player information
birthday	May 6, 1962
place of birth	Schwenningen am Neckar, Germany
size	183 cm
position	Point guard
Clubs as active
1979–1982 SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg 1982–1984 DTV Charlottenburg 1984–1987 SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg

Marco Baldi (* 6. May 1962 in Schwenningen am Neckar ) is Managing Director of Basketball - Bundesliga Alba Berlin and former German Junior - National player that was active even in Ludwigsburg and Berlin in the BBL.

As a player, Baldi, who grew up in the Württemberg basket , was active in Ludwigsburg , which played in the first division in 1980/81 and from 1984, as well as in Charlottenburg . After the Ludwigsburgs rose again in 1984, he ended his two-year stint in Berlin for the time being and returned to Ludwigsburg. After finishing his sporting career, the graduate in business administration initially worked for an automation manufacturer near Stuttgart, before returning to Berlin on May 1, 1990 as manager of the BG Charlottenburg and from the remnants of the DTV Charlottenburg, which later went bankrupt, the new club Alba Berlin built up. Baldi started with almost nothing and only with volunteer colleagues. With the entry of the waste disposal company ALBA as a name sponsor, Baldi managed to raise enough funds to under the coaches Faruk Kulenović and Svetislav Pešić , who moved to Berlin as national coach after winning the European Championship in 1993 , especially from the collapsing Yugoslavia, players like Zoran Radović , Emir Mutapčić , Mario Primorac , Teoman Alibegović and Saša Obradović to Berlin. In order to finally break the dominance of Leverkusen , which were German champions seven times in a row from 1990 to 1996 , in German club basketball, the concept of cooperating with TuS Lichterfelde as a farm team also proved to be decisive . Alba Berlin piloted the best German youth players such as Ingo Freyer , Stefano Garris and others to Berlin to play in the second division at Lichterfelde under player-coach Mutapčić and to train with the first division club Alba. Alba was a few years ahead of the other German clubs and was able to attract new spectators and sponsors with growing sporting success. After the first European title win of a German club team in 1995 in the Korać Cup , Alba replaced Leverkusen as the new series champion from 1997 and, like the Leverkusen team, won the championship title seven times in a row in combination with the cup victory four times as a double.

Baldi drove the professionalization of the association forward and benefited from the fact that with the Max-Schmeling-Halle - one of the few implemented projects as part of Berlin's failed bid for the 2000 Olympic Games - a hall was available from the end of 1996 that met the growing interest in Alba and offered the club a capacity twice to three times as large as the competition in the BBL. Baldi showed courage when he and the club moved to the even larger O₂ World in 2008 . The capacity of the hall is almost unique for German basketball halls and can only be compared with the Cologne Arena, which was only used sporadically by the now insolvent Cologne 99ers . In the rest of Europe there are only a few halls of comparable size that are used for basketball games. The fact that Alba managed to use the hall very well in the ULEB Euroleague season 2008/09 and achieved the highest average of all teams with over 10,000 spectators per game, rewarded the organization of the ULEB with the award of the best club official of the year 2009 for Baldi. He was the first European functionary to receive this award for the second time in the 2015/2016 season. In 2015 Baldi was one of the members of a joint committee of the German Basketball Federation, the Basketball Bundesliga, the 2nd Basketball Bundesliga and the regional associations, which advised the leagues and associations on top-level sports. In November 2018, like Henning Harnisch , he was part of the delegation of Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas during a trip to China .

Web links

• Alba Berlin: Management

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A clock that lives basketball: Marco Baldi is celebrating his 50th birthday today. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , May 4, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 6, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Club Executive of the Year: Marco Baldi, Alba Berlin. ULEB Euroleague , June 30, 2009, accessed March 1, 2011 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Norbert Thomma: Marco Baldi: The strong man at Alba Berlin. Der Tagesspiegel , November 5, 2011, pp. 2 to 3 , accessed on November 5, 2011 . 
4. ^ Once a player in Ludwigsburg, today a manager in Berlin: Marco Baldi. EnBW Ludwigsburg , April 25, 2009, accessed on March 1, 2011 . 
5. ↑ Just keep an eye on the next game. (No longer available online.) Alba Berlin , May 12, 2005, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 1, 2011 (interview).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ↑ Markus Kaiser: Marco Baldi's experience should help handball players from Erlangen. (No longer available online.) Wirtschaftsrat-Erlangen.de, April 24, 2004, formerly in the original ; Retrieved on March 1, 2011 (reproduction of an article from the Nürnberger Zeitung ).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ Competence team for the benefit of basketball. German Basketball Federation, accessed on December 29, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Alba delegation travels to China with Foreign Minister Maas. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .