Tony DiLeo
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| birthday | August 8, 1955 | |
| place of birth | Philadelphia , United States | |
| position | Point guard | |
| college | La Salle | |
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1979–1986 DJK Agon 08 Düsseldorf (women) 1981–1985 Germany (women) 1986–1990 BSC Saturn Cologne 1992–1994 Philadelphia 76ers ( AC ) 2008–2009 Philadelphia 76ers 
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Tony DiLeo (born August 8, 1955 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American basketball coach and sports director who has worked very successfully as a women's coach in Germany and has coached the NBA club from his hometown on an interim basis . DiLeo has worked as Vice Director of the Philadelphia 76ers since 2003, interrupted only by his coaching activity in the 2008/09 season .
DiLeo began his studies at Tennessee Technological University and played with the Golden Eagles of the TTU in the basketball team from 1974 to 1975. He then moved to the La Salle University of his hometown and played for the Explorers from 1976 to 1978 in the NCAA under the later NBA & WNBA coach Paul Westhead .
He then found his way to Germany and became the coach of the women's basketball league team DJK Agon 08 in Düsseldorf . In his first year as a coach in Düsseldorf he was able to win the club's second championship title after 1975, which was to be followed by six championship titles by 1986 in uninterrupted order. In the cup, this winning streak was only interrupted in 1982, otherwise coach DiLeo won the double in all seasons . During this time, the club remained unbeaten in 136 games in national competitions, which earned them an entry in the Guinness Book of Records . In 1983 and 1986, DJK Agon 08 reached the final in the European Women's Cup , where they were inferior to AS Vicenza , which won the European Cup five times in that decade. In addition, DiLeo acted from 1981 to 1985 as the coach of the German national women's basketball team. In 1986 he moved along the Rhine to Cologne and was coach of the men's basketball league team at Saturn Cologne. Here, too, DiLeo subsequently achieved two championship titles by 1988. In 1987 he was also named Germany's basketball coach of the year. After the departure of the main sponsor Saturn , DiLeo helped to find a new sponsor with those responsible for the Istanbul sports club Galatasaray . After a few months, however, this donor also left and the association went bankrupt.
In 1990 DiLeo returned to his home country and worked on the staff of the Philadelphia 76ers, first as a scout and later as a coaching assistant from 1992 to 1994. From 1999 he first worked as "director of player staff " before becoming assistant manager and vice-president of the club in 2003. After a disappointing start to the season, he stepped in as an interim coach in 2008 and was able to lead the team into the play-offs for the championship with a positive balance sheet under his aegis . After the season he returned to his post as Vice President.
From 2000 Tony DiLeo was a regular guest coach at the basketball camps at Schloss Hagerhof . In the meantime he has been inducted into the “Hall of Fame” of the basketball camp for his work and his services to the camp and has been honored with a banner on the ceiling of the training hall.
DiLeo is married to the Romanian German Ana Aszalos and their sons TJ and Max also play basketball. The former German junior and A2 national player TJ has been playing as a professional in Germany since 2013, while Max also became a professional in Germany after studying at Monmouth University . His brother Frank was a player and coach in Germany.
Web links
- Tony DiLeo - Sixers Front Office - English-language portrait on the pages of the 76s on nba.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ WZ-online.de: An old basketball fairy tale , article by Matthias Rech on the website of the Westdeutsche Zeitung of May 9, 2008, accessed on July 19, 2010
- ↑ Zeit.de: Retter vom Bosporus , article in the archive of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit by Florian Hassel from October 13, 1989, accessed on July 18, 2010
- ↑ "We always challenge ourselves". In: Köln.Sport. February 20, 2018, accessed on August 3, 2020 (German).
- ↑ http://www.big-gotha.de/40.0.html?&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1620&cHash=eddd526cdd3cbb3602754ed51a1f8751
- ↑ https://sircharlesincharge.com/2015/11/17/passion-for-the-game-philadelphia-76ers-scout-frank-dileo/
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | DiLeo, Tony |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | DiLeo, Anthony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, United States |