Ottorino Flaborea
Appearance
![]() Flaborea, in 1970. | ||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||
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Born | 5 March 1940 Concordia Sagittaria, Italy | (age 84)|||||||||||
Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 6.75 in (2.00 m) | |||||||||||
Listed weight | 232 lb (105 kg) | |||||||||||
Career information | ||||||||||||
Playing career | 1959–1980 | |||||||||||
Position | Center | |||||||||||
Coaching career | 1974–1980 | |||||||||||
Career history | ||||||||||||
As player: | ||||||||||||
1959–1964 | Biella | |||||||||||
1964–1972 | Varese | |||||||||||
1972–1974 | Biella | |||||||||||
1980 | Vigliano Basket Team | |||||||||||
As coach: | ||||||||||||
Biella | ||||||||||||
1974–1975 | Basket Brescia | |||||||||||
Biella | ||||||||||||
1980 | Vigliano Basket Team | |||||||||||
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Ottorino Flaborea (born 5 March 1940) is a retired Italian professional basketball player and coach. His nickname as a player, was "Captain Hook", due to his great hook shot. He was inducted into the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame, in 2008.
Club career
Flaborea was a FIBA European Selection, in 1972.
Italian national team
Flaborea was a part of the senior Italian national basketball teams that won the bronze medal at the 1971 EuroBasket, and finished in fourth place at the 1965 EuroBasket. He also competed at the 1964, 1968, and 1972 Summer Olympic Games, finishing in fifth, eighth, and fourth place, respectively.[1]
References
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Categories:
- 1940 births
- Living people
- Basketball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Centers (basketball)
- Italian basketball coaches
- Italian men's basketball players
- Olympic basketball players of Italy
- Pallacanestro Biella coaches
- Pallacanestro Biella players
- Pallacanestro Varese players
- Italian basketball biography stubs