Giancarlo Ferrero
No. 3 – Pallacanestro Brescia | |
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Position | Small forward |
League | Lega Basket Serie A |
Personal information | |
Born | Bra, Italy | 29 August 1988
Listed height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) |
Listed weight | 97 kg (214 lb) |
Career information | |
Playing career | 2003–present |
Career history | |
2003–2013 | Junior Casale |
2006–2007 | →Valenza |
2007–2008 | →Virtus Siena |
2008–2009 | →Robur Osimo |
2012 | →Fortitudo Bologna |
2013–2015 | Pallacanestro Trapani |
2015–2023 | Pallacanestro Varese |
2023–2024 | Pallacanestro Trieste |
2024–present | Pallacanestro Brescia |
Giancarlo Ferrero (born 29 August 1988) is an Italian professional basketball player for Pallacanestro Brescia of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He is a 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) small forward.
Professional career
[edit]Clubs
[edit]Giancarlo Ferrero made his debut in 2003 with A.S. Junior Pallacanestro Casale in Casale Monferrato. At the end of the Serie B regular season, he achieved the promotion to Serie A2 Basket and won the Serie B Cup.
Between 2006 and 2009 he was sent on loan to Valenza, Virtus Siena and Robur Osimo. But in 2009 he returned to Casale.
During the 2010–11 Serie A2 season, Junior Casale won the regular season and went to the playoffs when they achieved the historical promotion to Lega Basket Serie A, the highest-tier level professional league in Italy.
On 9 October 2011, in Sassari, it was the first time for Ferrero in Serie A where he got 8 points. In March 2012 he was sent on loan again to Conad Bologna (Serie A2).[1]
In 2012-13 Serie A season, he returned to Casale (Serie A2), where he reached the 3rd place in regular season and the playoffs' semi-finals.
In 2013 he went to Pallacanestro Trapani, again in Serie A2. He became the team captain of Trapani also in 2014–15 Serie A2 season.[2]
In July 2015 signed a two-year-contract with Pallacanestro Varese (LBA).[3] At the end of the 2015–16 LBA season they reached the 9th place of the regular season, and the 2016 Final Four of the 2015–16 FIBA Europe Cup where they lost in the Finals 62–66 with the German Skyliners Frankfurt.[4]
On July 25, 2024, he signed with Pallacanestro Brescia of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA).[5]
Italy national basketball team
[edit]Giancarlo Ferrere made his debut in the Italy national basketball team in 2009, when he played 4 matches with 28 points. He went to the European Under-18 and Under-20 Championships in 2006 and 2008. In the youth national teams he played 37 matches with 228 points. In 2012 he was summoned to the Senior national team for the friendly matches against Greece and France in Folgaria and Rome.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Arriva Ferrero e la Conad torna a vincere" [Ferrero arrived and Conad wins again]. sportando.com (in Italian). Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ^ "Pallacanestro Trapani, firmato Giancarlo Ferrero" [Pallacanestro Trapani, Giancarlo Ferrero signed]. sportando.com (in Italian). Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ^ "Varese: ufficiale la firma di Giancarlo Ferrero" [Varese: Giancarlo Ferrero signed officially]. sportando.com (in Italian). Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ^ "Skyliners Frankfurt beat Varese to win first FIBA Europ Cup title". sportando.com. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ^ "Giancarlo Ferrero è un nuovo giocatore della Germani Brescia". pallacanestrobrescia.it (in Italian). July 25, 2024. Retrieved August 17, 2024.
- ^ "Italian National Team experimental squad named". sportando.com. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
External links
[edit]- Lega Basket Serie A profile (in Italian) Retrieved 8 October 2017
- Legadue Basket profile (in Italian) Retrieved 8 October 2017
- FIBA profile (in English) Retrieved 8 October 2017
- FIBA Europe profile (in English) Retrieved 8 October 2017
- FIP profile (in English) Retrieved 8 October 2017\
- 1988 births
- Living people
- A.S. Junior Pallacanestro Casale players
- Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna players
- Italian men's basketball players
- Lega Basket Serie A players
- Pallacanestro Trapani players
- Pallacanestro Trieste players
- Pallacanestro Varese players
- People from Bra, Piedmont
- Power forwards
- Sportspeople from the Province of Cuneo
- 21st-century Italian sportsmen