Fortitudo Bologna
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| Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Leagues | ULEB Cup, Lega Basket Serie A | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1932 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| History | Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna (1932-present) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Arena | PalaDozza (5,721 seats) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Bologna, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Team colors | White and blue | |||||||||||||||||||||
| President | Gilberto Sacrati (owner) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach |  Dragan Šakota |
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| Championships | Lega Basket (2): 2000, 2005 Italian Supercup (2): 1998, 2005 Italian Cup (1): 1998 |
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Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna is a prominent Italian basketball club based in Bologna. As is the case for virtually all Italian professional basketball clubs, Fortitudo normally has a sponsor's name attached to it; the current sponsor is Italian department store chain UPIM. For past sponsors, see the list below.
Despite being one of Europe's richest clubs, Fortitudo has for much of its history played second fiddle in its own city to archrivals Virtus Bologna. Fortitudo won its first major trophy in 1998, winning the Italian Cup.
Fortitudo made the Italian League championship finals ten consecutive years (1997 through 2006). After three straight finals losses, Fortitudo won the Italian League Championship for the first time in 2000. Four consecutive finals losses were followed by Fortitudo's second league title in 2005, courtesy of a 3-1 win over Armani Jeans Milano in the finals series when instant replay upheld a Ruben Douglas buzzer beater in Game 4 of the championship series.
In recent years, Fortitudo has become a fixture in the Euroleague, basketball's equivalent to the Champions League in football. It got to the Final four in 1999 (it lost in semifinal against Virtus Bologna) and the semifinal of Euroleague playoffs in 2001 (again eliminated by the eternal rivals of Virtus); then the club lost in the Euroleague final in 2004 to Maccabi Tel-Aviv by 44 points, after defeating Montepaschi Siena on the day before in semifinal. However, they had a subpar 2006-07 season by their recent standards, finishing 13th out of 18 teams after changing coaches no less than three times. They nonetheless made the field for the 2007-08 ULEB Cup, as most of Italy's entries to that competition are based on performance over a three-year period, and Fortitudo's past performances compensated for their disappointing 2006-07 campaign.
Fortitudo's home arena is Paladozza, now also known for sponsorship reasons as Land Rover Arena.
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[edit] List of former club sponsorship names
- Cassera 1966-1968
- Eldorado 1968-1971
- Alco 1971-1978
- Mercury 1978-1980
- I&B 1980-1981
- Lattesole 1981-1983
- Yoga 1983-1988
- Arimo 1988-1990
- Aprimatic 1990-1991
- Mangiaebevi 1991-1993
- brief period without a name sponsor 1993
- Filodoro 1993-1995
- Teamsystem 1995-1999
- Paf Wennington 1999-2001
- Skipper 2001-2004
- Climamio 2004-2007
- UPIM 2007-present
[edit] 2007-2008 Roster
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Horace Jenkins | Point guard |
| 5 | |
Spencer Nelson | Power forward/Center |
| 6 |  |
Stefano Mancinelli | Small forward |
| 7 | |
Alessandro Cittadini | Center |
| 8 |  |
Óscar Torres | Shooting guard/Small forward |
| 9 | |
Davide Lamma | Point guard |
| 11 |   |
Dalibor Bagarić | Center |
| 12 |  |
Kristaps Janičenoks | Shooting guard/Small forward |
| 13 |  |
Tomasz Kesicki | Power forward/Center |
| 14 | |
Joseph Forte | Point guard/Shooting guard |
| 15 | |
James Thomas | Center |
| 17 | |
Dante Calabria | Shooting guard |
| 19 | |
Riccardo Cortese | Shooting guard |
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Iacopo Borra |
[edit] Notable past players
- John D. Douglas 4 seasons: '83-'87
- George Bucci 5 seasons: '85-'90
- Andrea Dallamora 8 seasons: '86-'94
Wallace Bryant 1 season: '87-'88- Daniele Albertazzi 6 seasons: '87-'93
- Moris Masetti 2 seasons: '87-'89
- Bill Garnett 1 season: '87-'88
- Artis Gilmore 1 season: '88-'89
- Vincent Askew 1 season: '88-'89
- Gene Banks 1 season: '88-'89
- Chris McNealy 1 season: '89-'90
- Dave Feitl 1 season: '89-'90
- Pete Myers 2 seasons: '90-'92
- Cedrick Hordges 1 season: '90-'91
Valdemaras Chomičius 1 season: '90-'91
Teoman Alibegović 2 seasons: '91-'93- Shaun Vandiver 1 season: '91-'92
- Dallas Comegys 2 seasons: '92-'94
- Corrado Fumagalli 2 seasons: '92-'94
- Dan Gay 8 seasons: '93-'00, '06-'07
- Vincenzo Esposito 2 seasons: '93-'95
- Aleksandar Đorđević 2 seasons: '94-'96
Carlton Myers 6 seasons: '95-'01- Alessandro Frosini 3 seasons: '94-'97
- Mike Brown 1 season: '95-'96
- Conrad McRae 1 season: '96-'97
- Eric Murdock 1 season: '96-'97
- Gregor Fučka 5 seasons: '97-'02
- Giacomo Galanda 5 seasons: '97-'98, '99-'03
- Roberto Chiacig 2 seasons: '97-'99
- David Rivers 1 season: '97-'98
Dominique Wilkins 1 season: '97-'98- Gianluca Basile 7 seasons: '98-'05
- Marko Jarić 2 seasons: '98-'00
- Artūras Karnišovas 2 seasons: '98-'00
- Damir Mulaomerović 1 season: '98-'99
- Vinny Del Negro 1 season: '98-'99
- Stojko Vranković 2 seasons: '99-'01
- Anthony Bowie 1 season: '00-'01
- Eddie Gill1 season: '00-'01
- Eurelijus Žukauskas 1 season: '00-'01
Vassil Evtimov 2 seasons: '01-'02, '06-'07- Emilio Kovačić 2 seasons: '01-'03
- John Celestand 1 season: '01-'02
- Anthony Goldwire 1 season: '01-'02
- Dan McClintock 1 season: '01-'02
- Marko Milič 1 season: '01-'02
- Rumeal Robinson 1 season: '01-'02
- Zoran Savić 1 season: '01-'02
- Gianmarco Pozzecco 3 seasons: '02-'05
Carlos Delfino 2 seasons: '02-'04- A. J. Guyton 2 seasons: '02-'04
Luboš Bartoň 1 season: '02-'03
Vlado Šćepanović 1 season: '02-'03- Mate Skelin 1 season: '02-'03
- Marco Belinelli 4 seasons: '03-'07
- Erazem Lorbek 3 seasons: '03-'06
- Matjaž Smodiš 2 seasons: '03-'05
- Miloš Vujanić 2 seasons: '03-'05
Hanno Möttölä 1 season: '03-'04- Dalibor Bagarić 2 seasons: '04-'06
- Amal McCaskill 1 season: '04-'05
- Ruben Douglas 1 season: '04-'05
- Sani Bečirovič 1 season: '05-'06
- Yakohouba Diawara 1 season: '05-'06
- Kiwane Garris 1 season: '05-'06
- Travis Watson 1 season: '05-'06
- David Bluthenthal 1 season: '06-'07
- Alain Digbeu 1 season: '06-'07
- Tyus Edney 1 season: '06-'07
- Goran Jurak 1 season: '06-'07
- Jérôme Moïso 1 season: '06-'07
- Moochie Norris 1 season: '06-'07
- Preston Shumpert 1 season: '06-'07
[edit] External links
- (Italian) Official site
- Euroleague team profile
- (Italian) Official Supporters site
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