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San Lorenzo
NicknameAzulgrana
ConferenceSur
LeaguesLNB
FoundedApril 1, 1908; 116 years ago (1908-04-01)
ArenaRoberto Pando [1]
LocationBuenos Aires
Team colors   
PresidentMatías Lammens
Head coachJulio Lamas
Championships1 LNB
WebsiteBasketball official

San Lorenzo de Almagro is the men's professional club basketball section of the San Lorenzo de Almagro multi sports club, that is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The team plays in the Liga Nacional de Básquet (LNB), which is the first tier level division of the Argentine basketball league system. The team is currently coached by Julio Lamas.[2] San Lorenzo plays its home games at the Estadio Obras Sanitarias, which is located in Núñez, Buenos Aires.

History

Beginning and golden years

San Lorenzo affiliated to the Argentine Association in 1930, and won a large amount of championships from the 1930s to the 1970s, being nicknamed The Cathedral of Basketball. 1942 was the year when San Lorenzo achieved its first titles, winning the Torneo Apertura and the Oficial championship, organised by the Buenos Aires Basketball Association. One year later, the team won another Apertura title, and they then won the 1946, 1949, and 1950 Apertura official titles. The club's most notable players of that era were Alfredo Belli, Salvador Capece, and Alberto Trama. Other notable members of the team were Armando Bo and Francisco Sommariva.

Alfredo Belli, notable player of the club in the 1940s.

In 1951, San Lorenzo played against the The Harlem Globetrotters, at the Estadio Luna Park, in Buenos Aires. That same year, the team won the Apertura championship (and repeated again in 1952), and the Oficial in 1954. Two years later, the team won another Oficial title, remaining unbeaten, and its first Torneo Metropolitano title. In 1957, San Lorenzo made its first international tour of Brazil, where the squad won 8 of 12 games played. Players on the tour were: Ricardo Lanzillotta (team captain), Herberto Fagnani, Edgar Parizzia, Oscar Zagatti, Carlos Vasino, Vicente Lazzara, Erio Cassetai, and Carlos Marranzino, with Francisco del Río being the head coach of the team.

San Lorenzo (in red uniform) played in the first LNB game ever, vs. Argentino de Firmat in 1985. With the ball, León Najnudel.

San Lorenzo won its first national title in 1958, the Campeonato Argentino. That allowed the team to play its first official tournament outside of Argentina, as the club competed in the South American top-tier level South American Club Championship, where San Lorenzo finished second, behind Defensor Sporting. At the Argentine national domestic level, San Lorenzo won the 1958 Apertura title, and finished third in the Buenos Aires championship (although the squad would later go on to win the 1959 and 1960 titles). In 1966, San Lorenzo won the Apertura title finishing unbeaten, and both the Metropolitano and Buenos Aires championships, in 1968.

The 1970s began with the 1970 Metropolitano championship, and the club then winning two titles else in 1971. That same year, San Lorenzo toured in Europe, marking the first time that an Argentine team played there. The club's layers were Oscar Visciglia, Gustavo Aguirre, Carlos Perroni, Carlos Garro, Dante Massolini, Norberto Pacheco, Carlos Perales, Abel Rojas, Néstor Delgui, and Emilio Dumani, with Edgard Parizzia acting as the team's head coach. San Lorenzo defeated the Yugoslavian national league champion, OKK Beograd, and six rivals from Italy, also playing the Spain national team.[3][4] During that tour, the team was nicknamed, La Catedral (The Cathedral), after a speech from team player Emilio Dumani, saying: "This is a team that always fights, and never turns off... like the lights of a Cathedral".

Despite those successful years, the 1973 Buenos Aires championship would be the last official title of San Lorenzo until the 2010s.

1971 tour on Europe details
Date City Rival Result
Spain
30 Apr Balaguer Spain national team 44–49
1 May Balaguer Gillette (USA) 73–65
2 May Balaguer OKK Beograd 75–74
Italy
6 May Bari OKK Beograd 88–89
7 May Napoli Fides Napoli 63–93
8 May Pesaro Tropicali Pesaro 70–72
9 May ? Monti Roseto 90–69
12 May Rome Patriarca 89–80
14 May ? Reggio Emilia 81–57
15 May Brugherio Candy 70–74
16 May Turin Biber 94–79
17 May Genoa Athletic Genova 75–63
19 May Rome Lazio Snadiero 93–85

Liga Nacional and decline

San Lorenzo players celebrating the 2015–16 LNB title.

On April 26, 1985, San Lorenzo played the opening game of the recently created Liga Nacional de Básquet (LNB), facing Argentino de Firmat at the Obras Sanitarias venue.[5] Nevertheless, the team was relegated that same year.[6]

The basketball section of the club was inactive between 1986 and 1993, returning only at youth levels. In 1996, San Lorenzo's senior squad returned to first division tournaments of the city of Buenos Aires. Since then, the club won the Under-22 championship (2004), and Copa De Oyarbide (2012).

Return to glory

In 2014, San Lorenzo debuted in the Torneo Nacional de Ascenso (TNA), the second tier level division of professional basketball in Argentina.[7] In 2015, San Lorenzo acquired a vacant place in the Argentine top-tier level Liga Nacional de Básquet (LNB), because of a merger with the club 9 de Julio de Río Tercero.[8] 30 years after its debut in the LNB, San Lorenzo returned to the top division on September 22, 2015, and beat Quimsa, by a score of 79-64.[9]

San Lorenzo won its first LNB title in 2016, after beating La Unión, with a 4-0 series sweep in the league's finals. San Lorenzo player, Walter Herrmann, was chosen as MVP of the finals.[10]

Matches against NBA teams

14 October 2016
Toronto Raptors Canada 122–105 Argentina San Lorenzo de Almagro

Players

Current roster

San Lorenzo roster
Players Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age
SF 6 Argentina Mata, Marcos 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 38 – (1986-08-01)1 August 1986
PF 21 Uruguay Calfani, Mathías 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 32 – (1992-01-21)21 January 1992
PG 9 Argentina Scala, Santiago 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 34 – (1990-03-21)21 March 1990
PG 7 Argentina Aguirre, Nicolás 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 36 – (1988-03-31)31 March 1988
SG 15 Argentina Safar, Selem 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 37 – (1987-05-19)19 May 1987
SG 1 Puerto Rico Diaz, Guillermo 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 39 – (1985-03-04)4 March 1985
PF 22 Argentina Sandes, Matías 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 40 – (1984-04-14)14 April 1984
C 55 United States Meyinsse, Jerome 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 36 – (1988-09-14)14 September 1988
SF 14 Argentina Deck, Gabriel 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 29 – (1995-03-09)9 March 1995
SG 24 Argentina Fernández, Lisandro 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 26 – (1998-01-19)19 January 1998
Head coach
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured Injured
Updated: 2016-10-15

Notable former players

Honours

Copa Confederación Argentina de Deportes.

Regional

  • Asociación de Buenos Aires Championship (12): 1942, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1968, 1971, 1973
  • Torneo Apertura (11): 1942, 1943, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1957, 1958, 1966, 1967
  • Torneo Metropolitano (5): 1956, 1967, 1968, 1979, 1971

National

See also

References

  1. ^ San Lorenzo tuvo su fiesta completa en la vuelta a Boedo, Clarín, 24 Oct 2016
  2. ^ "Julio Lamas fue confirmado como nuevo técnico de San Lorenzo para la Liga Nacional", Cancha Llena
  3. ^ "La Catedral en Europa", Mundo Azulgrana website
  4. ^ "Gira por Europa 1971"
  5. ^ "Hace 30 años nacía la Liga Nacional de Básquetbol en Argentina", Telam, 26 Apr 2015
  6. ^ "San Lorenzo barrió a La Unión y logró un título histórico", Clarín, 23 Jun 2016
  7. ^ "Llegó el día del debut", San Lorenzo website, 15 Oct 2014
  8. ^ "Tinelli lo hizo: 9 de Julio se fusionará con San Lorenzo y perderá su plaza en la Liga", La Voz del Interior
  9. ^ "Tras 30 años, San Lorenzo volvió a la Liga Nacional y debutó con triunfo", La Nueva, 22 Sep 2015
  10. ^ "Tinelli cumplió otro sueño: San Lorenzo campeón de la Liga Nacional", Cancha Llena, 23 Jun 2016
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