Orlandina Basket
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| Orlandina Basket | ||||
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| Leagues | Serie C Regionale | |||
| Founded | 1978 | |||
| History | Orlandina Basket (1978-2008) Pallacanestro Nebrodi (2008-2009) Orlandina Basket (2009-present) |
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| Arena | PalaFantozzi (3,613 seats) |
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| Location | Capo d'Orlando, Sicily, Italy | |||
| Team colors | White and Blue |
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| President | Enzo Sindoni | |||
| Head coach |  Romeo Sacchetti |
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| Championships | ||||
| Website | orlandinabasket.it | |||
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Orlandina Basket, also known for sponsorship reasons as UPEA Capo d'Orlando[1] is an Italian professional basketball club from the town of Capo d'Orlando, Sicily, Italy. It was founded in 1978, and is among the most recently founded basketball clubs in Italy. The club was formerly in the Italian First Division.
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[edit] History
Following its foundation, the club played mostly in regional leagues, before being acquired in 1996. Following the bid, Orlandina Basket obtained two consecutive promotions up to Serie B2 in 1998, when former Italy international star Alessandro Fantozzi was signed. The club won promotion to Serie B1 in 2000, and to LegADue, the second-highest division in Italian basketball, the next year. Orlandina, however, relegated to Serie B1 in 2003. Nevertheless, in 2004 Orlandina was admitted back to LegADue by the federation because of league vacancies. Successively to that, Orlandina dominated the 2004/2005 LegADue table and promoted to Serie A, becoming the fifth Sicilian city to be represented in the Italian top basketball division, after Catania, Palermo, Trapani and Messina.
In September 2008 Orlandina Basket was excluded from Serie A championship due to legal problems, together with Basket Napoli[2]. After this decision, the team restarted to play in Serie C Dilettanti, the fifth highest basketball league in Italy.[3]
[edit] Arena
Today, the team plays its home games in the PalaFantozzi (named after former Orlandina star Alessandro Fantozzi), seating 3,613 spectators.
[edit] 2009-2010 Roster [1]
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Federico Antinori | Point guard |
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Giuseppe Di Lauro | Shooting guard |
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Luigi Brunetti | Power forward |
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Ariel Aimaretti | Center |
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Carmine Moccia | Small forward |
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Luca Sgro' | Shooting guard |
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Pablo Albertinazzi | Point guard |
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Francesco Leggio | Small forward |
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Giuseppe Constantino | Small forward |
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Fabio Bontempo | Point guard |
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Mario Milone | Shooting guard |
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Massino Vigorita | Shooting Guard |
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Vincenzo Vasile | Small forward |
Coach:Giuseppe Condello
[edit] Notable players
Yegor Mescheriakov 2 seasons: '01-'03
Alessandro Fantozzi 2 seasons: '01-'03
Keith Carter 2 seasons: '01-'02, '05-'06- Otis Hill 1 season: '01-'02
Soumaila Samake 1 season: '01-'02- Reggie Fox 1 season: '01-'02
- Henry Turner 1 season: '02-'03
- James Robinson 1 season: '02-'03
- Karim Shabazz 1 season: '02-'03
- - Brian Oliver 1 season: '04-'05
- Ryan Hoover 1 season: '04-'05
- Terrell McIntyre 1 season: '04-'05
- Rolando Howell 1 season: '04-'05
- Marque Perry 1 season: '05-'06
Kristaps Janicenoks 1 season: '05-'06
Oluoma Nnamaka 1 season: '05-'06
Virginijus Praškevičius 1 season: '05-'06
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Vassil Evtimov 1 season: '05-'06
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Dusan Jelic Koutsopoulos 1 season: '05-'06- Vincenzo Esposito 1 season: '05-'06
- Alvin Young 1 season: '06-'07
- Jayson Wells 1 season: '06-'07
- Hervé Touré 1 season: '06-'07
- Martynas Mažeika 1 season: '07-'08
[edit] References
- ^ a b UPEA Capo d'Orlando. (Italian)
- ^ Il Consiglio Federale revoca l'ammissione di Napoli e Capo d'Orlando alla Serie A. (Italian)
- ^ Comunicato Stampa. (Italian)
[edit] External links
- Official Website (Italian)
