Stefano Gentile

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Basketball player
Stefano Gentile
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Gentile as player of Dinamo Basket Sassari (2019)
Player information
birthday September 20, 1989
place of birth Maddaloni , Campania , Italy
size 191 cm
position Point guard
Club information
society Dinamo Basket Sassari
league Lega Basket Serie A
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2004–2006 Pepsi Caserta Basket 2006–2007 Andrea Costa Imola 2007–2008 Armani Jeans Milan 2008–2009 Assi Ostuni 2009–2010 Aquila Basket Trento 2010–2012 Junior Casale Monferrato 2012–2013 Otto Caserta Basket 2013–2015 Pallacanestro Cantù 2015–2017 Pallacanestro Reggiana 2017–2018 Virtus Bologna Since 2018 Dinamo Basket SassariItalyItaly
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Stefano Gentile ( September 20, 1989 in Maddaloni , Campania ) is an Italian basketball player . As a professional player, Gentile has so far only been active for Italian clubs and has been a member of the extended squad of the Italian men's selection as a national player since 2012 . His brother Alessandro , who is three years his junior, is also a national player; her father Ferdinando Gentile was one of the best-known Italian basketball players of his time in the 1990s as vice European champion in 1991 and national champion European cup winner in 2000 .

Career

After his father's active career ended, Stefano Gentile grew up, like his father, in the youth teams of JuveCaserta in his Campania homeland. In the 2005/06 season he already had individual short appearances in the second division team of Caserta. When his father coached the second division team Andrea Costa in Imola , the 17-year-old Gentile also moved to the men's squad, where he was used for an average of ten minutes each in 25 games. The team reached the penultimate place in the table, however, only through the withdrawal of other teams relegation. For the 2007/08 season Gentile moved to the squad of record champions Olimpia Armani from Milan in the top division Lega Basket Serie A , where the 18-year-old Gentile could not prevail and only made a few short appearances. Therefore, he went back to southern Italy in the third division in the 2008/09 season, where he played for Assi Basket from Ostuni . However, they missed the play-offs for promotion to the second division in ninth place . Italy lost four of the first five games with Gentile at the 2009 U20 European Junior Championship. Although Gentile was one of the most successful Italian point collectors in the defeat against the Latvian selection with his tournament best of 16 points, his playing times decreased in the following four games. But the Italian junior selection still reached the "small final" for the bronze medal, which was lost to the Spanish junior selection.

In the 2009/10 season Gentile was back in northern Italy and played for Aquila Basket from Trento , who also missed the promotion play-offs in the third division in ninth place. It was only through the change to Junior from Casale Monferrato that Gentile managed to return to the second-highest division Legadue in the 2010/11 season . With this club he won the main round and the play-offs for promotion to the top division. In the top division, in which Gentile was used for just under twenty minutes per game, the Piedmontese club managed only eight wins in 32 games, so that he was relegated at the end of the season as the bottom of the table. For the 2012/13 season, Gentile moved back to Caserta, who had just barely achieved relegation after returning to the top division in 2008 in the preseason a place ahead of Casale Monferrato. At Caserta, Gentile was one of the most important and successful players with just under 30 minutes of play and a double-digit score of a good ten points per game when they improved to ninth place in the final table. The award as Most Valuable Player of the All-Star Series A Games in December 2012, which Gentile won again a year later, underscored that he had finally made the breakthrough. For the 2013/14 season Gentile moved to the traditional club from Cantù , for which, however, after the third main round place, the play-offs for the title after three first-round defeats against former runner-up Acea Rome ended disappointingly without a win. In the Eurocup 2013/14 , in the intermediate round of the best 32 teams, they only failed by a very narrow margin with a point difference in direct comparison with the German representative Ratiopharm Ulm .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefano Gentile's profile / 2009 U20 European Championship Men. FIBA , accessed on July 20, 2014 (English, individual tournament statistics in the archive).
  2. ^ David Hein: Spain Capture Bronze. FIBA Europa , July 26, 2009, accessed July 20, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Cantu downs Ulm, both wait to learn their faith. ULEB , February 19, 2014, accessed on July 20, 2014 (English, match report).
personal data
SURNAME Gentile, Stefano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Maddaloni , Campania, Italy