Cesare Rubini
Cesare Rubini | |||
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Personal information | |||
Born |
Trieste, Italy | 2 November 1923||
Died |
8 February 2011 Milan, Italy | (aged 87)||
Senior clubs | |||
Years | Team | ||
1947–1948 | Società Canottieri Olona | ||
1949–1951 | Rari Nantes Napoli | ||
1952–1956 | Rari Nantes Camogli | ||
Medal record |
Olimpia Milano | |||||||||||||||
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As head coach:
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Basketball Hall of Fame as coach | |||||||||||||||
FIBA Hall of Fame as coach | |||||||||||||||
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Cesare Rubini (2 November 1923 – 8 February 2011) was an Italian professional basketball player and coach, and a water polo player. He was considered to be one of the greatest European basketball coaches of all time, Rubini was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1994, making him the first, and to this day, just one of three Italian basketball figures to receive such an honour, alongside Dino Meneghin and Sandro Gamba. He was also inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2000.
In 2002, he was awarded the
Sports biography
Rubini started to play basketball for his high school team, in his native Trieste, where he graduated in 1941. The same year, he began to play for Olimpia Milano's junior clubs, the most prestigious Italian League basketball club at that time. However, he had a long-lived passion for water polo: this led him to later become one of the rare world sportsmen to compete at the highest level in two different team sports.
Water polo career
As a club
In the meantime, he had also assumed the role of player-coach of the Italian basketball club
Basketball career
As a club basketball player-coach, Rubini won 6 Italian national domestic league titles (1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957) with Olimpia Milano. In 1957, he devoted himself only to the team's head coach role, and he then went on to win 9 more Italian national domestic league titles with Olimpia (1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1972). In those years, he set an unparalleled record of 322 victories, and 28 defeats. Overall, as head coach of the Milan team, Rubini totaled 501 victories, including the FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague) championship in 1966, and two (European 2nd-tier) level FIBA European Cup Winners' Cups (FIBA Saporta Cup) titles, in 1971 and 1972: these were the first European-wide victories of Italian basketball clubs. He also won the Italian Cup, in 1972.
As a player, Rubini won a silver medal with the senior
Death
Rubini was involved with his beloved sports until his death: he promoted water polo formation for young athletes, and was the Honorary President of Olimpia Milano. He died on 8 February 2011.[1]
See also
- Italy men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
- List of Olympic champions in men's water polo
- List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
- Legends of Italian sport - Walk of Fame
- List of EuroLeague-winning head coaches
References
External links
- Cesare Rubini at the International Swimming Hall of Fame
- Cesare Rubini at FIBA
- Cesare Rubini at Olympics.com
- Cesare Rubini at Olympedia
- Cesare Rubini at the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (in Italian)
- Basketball Hall of Fame Coach Profile
- FIBA Hall of Fame Coach Profile
- Italian League Profile (in Italian)