VIRTUS BOLOGNA
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'Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna' is a prominent Italian basketball club, based in Bologna. Virtus returned to Italy's top division for the 2005-06 season after two years in the second division.
Virtus was founded in 1879 as a gymnastics club, and fielded its first professional basketball teams in the 1920s. The club has won 15 national league titles in Italy's top division and 8 Italian Cups. It has also been a frequent participant in the Euroleague, the basketball equivalent to football's Champions League. Virtus' best season, as measured by trophies won, was 2000-01, when it won the Italian league, Italian Cup, and Euroleague titles (though the latter came against the field that did not include all of the Europe's national champions). It also won the Euroleague in 1998 led by Predrag Danilović.
However, several key members of Virtus' treble-winners left immediately after that accomplishment. After the 2001-02 season, Manu Ginobili, the Euroleague Final Four MVP in 2001, left for the NBA, as did another important player Marko Jarić. At the end of the 2002-03 season, Virtus suffered relegation from Italy's top division as a result of financial problems.
The local derby between Virtus and Fortitudo Bologna is one of the most intense in the entire world of sports. ''Sports Illustrated'' writer Alexander Wolff devoted a chapter of his 2002 basketball book, ''Big Game, Small World'' (ISBN 0-446-52601-0), to this rivalry.
Virtus' home stadium is PalaMalaguti.
| Contents |
| 2007-2008 Roster |
| Notable past players |
| Coaches |
| List of former sponsorship names |
| External links |
2007-2008 Roster
Notable past players
★ Marco Bonamico 9 seasons: '75-'76, '77-'78, '80-'86, '88-'89
★ Carlo Caglieris 6 seasons: '75-'81
★ Terry Driscoll 3 seasons: '75-'78
★ Renato Villalta 13 seasons: '76-'89
★ KreÅ¡o Ćosić 2 seasons: '78-'80
★ Sasha Danilović 6 seasons: '92-'95, '97-'00
★ Augusto Binelli 18 seasons: '80-'81, '83-'00
★ Roberto Brunamonti 13 seasons: '83-'96
★ Greg Stokes 2 seasons: '86-'88
★ Floyd Allen 1 season: '87-'88
★ Micheal Ray Richardson 3 seasons: '88-'91
★ Clemon Johnson 3 seasons: '88-'91
★ Claudio Coldebella 7 seasons: '89-'96
★ Lauro Bon 3 seasons: '89-'92
★ Riccardo Morandotti 7 seasons: '91-Dec '96, Jul-Nov '97
★ Bill Wennington 2 seasons: '91-'93
★ Jurij Zdovc 1 season: '91-'92
★ Flavio Carera 6 seasons: '92-'97, '01-'02
★ Paolo Moretti 4 seasons: '92-'96
★ Russ Schoene 1 season: '93-'94
★ Alessandro Abbio 8 seasons: '94-'02
★ Joe Binion 1 season: '94-'95
★ Arijan Komazec 2 seasons: '95-'97
★ Orlando Woolridge 1 season: '95-'96
★ Zoran Savić 2 seasons: '96-'98
★ Walter Magnifico 1 season: '96-'97
★ Branislav Prelevic 1 season: '96-'97
★ Antoine Rigaudeau 6 seasons: '97-'03
★ Alessandro Frosini 6 seasons: '97-'03
★ Hugo Sconochini 4 seasons: '97-'01
★ Radoslav Nesterovic 2 seasons: '97-'99
★ David Andersen 4 seasons: '99-'03
★ Saulius Å tombergas 1 season: '99-'00
★ Nikos Ekonomou 1 season: '99-'00
★ Matjaž SmodiÅ¡ 3 seasons: '00-'03
★ Manu Ginóbili 2 seasons: '00-'02
★ Marko Jarić 2 seasons: '00-'02
★ Rashard Griffith 2 seasons: '00-'02
★ Derrick Dial 1 season: '02-'03
★ Charlie Bell 1 season: '02-'03
★ German Scarone 1 season: '02-'03
★ Dejan Koturovic 1 season: '02-'03
★ Ruslan Avleev 1 season: '02-'03
★ Samuele Podestà 2 seasons: '03-'05
★ Charles Smith 1 season: '03-'04
★ Anthony Williams 1 season: '03-'04
★ Vonteego Cummings 1 season: '03-'04
★ A. J. Guyton 1 season: '04-'05
★ Bennett Davison 1 season: '04-'05
★ Corey Brewer 1 season: '04-'05
★ Christian Drejer 2 seasons: '05-'07
★ Kris Lang 2 seasons: '05-'07
★ Dusan Vukcevic 2 seasons: '05-'07
★ David Bluthenthal 1 season: '05-'06
★ Marko MiliÄ 1 season: '05-'06
★ Carl English 1 season: '05-'06
★ Travis Best 1 season: '06-'07
★ Vlado Ilievski 1 season: '06-'07
★ Andreas Glyniadakis 1 season: '06-'07
Coaches
★ 1948-50 Renzo Poluzzi
★ 1950-51 Dino Fontana
★ 1951-52 Venzo Vannini
★ 1952-53 Larry Strong
★ 1953-54 Giancarlo Marinelli
★ 1954-55 Larry Strong
★ 1955-60 Vittorio Tracuzzi
★ 1960-63 Eduard Kucharski
★ 1963-66 Mario Alesini
★ 1966-68 Jaroslav Sip (incl. 4 games from the '68-'69 season)
★ 1968-69 Renzo Ranuzzi (18 games)
★ 1969-70 Nello Paratore
★ 1970-71 Vittorio Tracuzzi (incl. 4 games from the '71-'72 season)
★ 1971-73 Nico Messina (incl. 18 games from the '71-'72 season)
★ 1973-78 Dan Peterson
★ 1978-80 Terry Driscoll
★ 1980-81 Ettore Zuccheri (23 games)
★ 1981 Renzo Ranuzzi (18 games from the '80-'81 season)
★ 1981-82 Aleksandar Nikolić
★ 1982 George Bisacca (11 games from the '82-'83 season)
★ 1982-83 Mauro Di Vincenzo (24 games)
★ 1983-85 Alberto Bucci
★ 1985-87 Alessandro Gamba
★ 1987-88 KreÅ¡imir Ćosić
★ 1988-89 Bob Hill
★ 1989-93 Ettore Messina
★ 1993-97 Alberto Bucci (incl. 23 games from the '96-'97 season)
★ 1997 Lino Frattin (11 games from the '96-'97 season)
★ 1997-02 Ettore Messina (replaced for two games in '01-'02 by Giordano Consolini)
★ 2002 Bogdan Tanjević (14 games from the '02-'03 season)
★ 2002-03 Valerio Bianchini (20 games)
★ 2003 Giampiero Ticchi
★ 2003-04 Alberto Bucci
★ 2004-05 Giordano Consolini
★ 2005-07 Zare Markovski
★ 2007-present Stefano Pillastrini
List of former sponsorship names
★ no name sponsorship 1945-1953
★ Minganti 1953-1958
★ Oransoda 1958-1960
★ Idrolitina 1960-1961
★ no name sponsorship 1961-1962
★ Knorr 1962-1965
★ Candy 1965-1969
★ no name sponsorship 1969-1970
★ Norda 1970-1974
★ Sinudyne 1974-1980
★ Granarolo 1983-1986
★ Dietor 1986-1988
★ Knorr 1988-1993
★ Buckler 1993-1996
★ Kinder 1996-2002
★ no name sponsorship 2002-2003
★ Carisbo Virtus 2003-2004
★ Caffè Maxim 2004-2006
★ VidiVici 2006-
External links
★ Official site (in Italian)
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