Juvecaserta Basket
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JuveCaserta Basket also known for sponsorship reasons as Pepsi Caserta, is an Italian League
professional basketball
team from the town of Caserta
. For past club sponsorship names, see the list below.
by a group of local enthusiasts following the war in 1952. The name Sporting Club Juventus was the work of Santino Piccolo who gave this name because he was a big fan of the football team in Turin. At first, the team played on clay courts of the Liceo Classico Pietro Giannone of Caserta.
in the 1990-91 season, played in the Italian finals in the 1985-86 and 1986-87 seasons, won the Italian Cup
(1987–88), played in the Italian Cup finals (1983–84 and 1988–89) and played in the Korać Cup
final in the 1985-86 season. The club also played in the European Cup Winners' Cup
final in the 1988-89 season.
The only record still unbroken is that of the Italian Championship
victory in 1991: the team is still the only one from the south of Italy
having conquired the title of Italian Champion at least once. This confirms a long tradition of the city Caserta
as "basketball-city" more than a "soccer-city", that is an absolute rarity in that area of the country. Statistics show that the Palamaggiò, the 6387-seat arena where the team plays (home of the team (since 1982), is one of the fullest in Italy. The enthusiasm of the supporters, most of them part of the organization "Inferno Bianconero" (Black/White Hell), has been showed by them in every match played away from Caserta. A demonstration of this feeling of the city towards the team was showed in the finals in which Juvecaserta won the season 1990-91. In Milan, for the final match, there were many thousands of supporters from Caserta, whose coming back as winners became a legend in the town.
Following the 1997-98 season, the club went bankrupt. In 2004, two lower-level Caserta-based teams merged under the name of JuveCaserta. Again, due to sponsorship deals, the new club was also known as Pepsi Caserta. The best results of this new club have come in the last two seasons, a third-place finish in LegADue
in 2006-07, followed by a second-place finish and playoff victory in 2007-08. The club was then promoted to the Serie A
for the 2008-09 season, after winning the 2007-08 promotion playoffs in the second-level LegADue.
In the 2009-2010 season, Pepsi Caserta reached the play-off semi-finals one more time against the Olimpia Milano, after a second place in the regular season. In the 5 match-challenge, Caserta and Milano were on 2-2 draw with the last and final match remained to play in Caserta. Milano reached the finals against Siena, but Caserta and its supporters celebrated together a wonderful season, seen as the "Coming back" of the Juvecaserta to the former glory.
In August 2010, Caserta was defeated in the first qualifying round for the access to the Euroleague season by the Russian team Khimki and played the Eurocup 2010-2011. In that competition, the first one since the sunset of the 90's, Juvecaserta was able to reach surprisingly the quarter-finals, in which the Italian team faced again a Russian team, the UNICS Kazan (23-30/03/2011). At Palamaggiò, in the first leg, Caserta was defeated by 6 points (final score 84-90). On the second leg, at Kazan, Caserta lost again in an amazing match by 2 points (final score 79-77). The first adventure in European championships after almost 2 decades was then completed by Caserta honouredly.
Serie A (basketball)
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team from the town of Caserta
Caserta
Caserta is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial and industrial comune and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Campanian Subapennine mountain range...
. For past club sponsorship names, see the list below.
The Beginnings
The Juvecaserta club was founded in CasertaCaserta
Caserta is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial and industrial comune and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Campanian Subapennine mountain range...
by a group of local enthusiasts following the war in 1952. The name Sporting Club Juventus was the work of Santino Piccolo who gave this name because he was a big fan of the football team in Turin. At first, the team played on clay courts of the Liceo Classico Pietro Giannone of Caserta.
Later Years
Later, Juvecaserta won the Italian ChampionshipSerie A (basketball)
Lega Basket Serie A is the highest level club competition in Italian professional basketball where play determines the national champion. The season consists of a home-and-away schedule of 30 games, followed by an eight-team playoff round. Quarterfinals and semifinals series are best-of-five, and...
in the 1990-91 season, played in the Italian finals in the 1985-86 and 1986-87 seasons, won the Italian Cup
Coppa Italia di pallacanestro maschile
The Italian Basketball Cup , or Coppa Italia, is an annual professional basketball competition between pro clubs from the Italian League.-History and format:...
(1987–88), played in the Italian Cup finals (1983–84 and 1988–89) and played in the Korać Cup
Korac Cup
The Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA between the 1971-72 and 2001-02 seasons. It was the third-tier level club competition in European basketball, after the European Champions' Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup...
final in the 1985-86 season. The club also played in the European Cup Winners' Cup
Saporta Cup
Saporta Cup was the name of the second-tier level European professional club basketball competition, where the National Cup winners from all over Europe played against each other. The competition was organized by FIBA Europe...
final in the 1988-89 season.
The only record still unbroken is that of the Italian Championship
Serie A (basketball)
Lega Basket Serie A is the highest level club competition in Italian professional basketball where play determines the national champion. The season consists of a home-and-away schedule of 30 games, followed by an eight-team playoff round. Quarterfinals and semifinals series are best-of-five, and...
victory in 1991: the team is still the only one from the south of Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
having conquired the title of Italian Champion at least once. This confirms a long tradition of the city Caserta
Caserta
Caserta is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial and industrial comune and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Campanian Subapennine mountain range...
as "basketball-city" more than a "soccer-city", that is an absolute rarity in that area of the country. Statistics show that the Palamaggiò, the 6387-seat arena where the team plays (home of the team (since 1982), is one of the fullest in Italy. The enthusiasm of the supporters, most of them part of the organization "Inferno Bianconero" (Black/White Hell), has been showed by them in every match played away from Caserta. A demonstration of this feeling of the city towards the team was showed in the finals in which Juvecaserta won the season 1990-91. In Milan, for the final match, there were many thousands of supporters from Caserta, whose coming back as winners became a legend in the town.
Following the 1997-98 season, the club went bankrupt. In 2004, two lower-level Caserta-based teams merged under the name of JuveCaserta. Again, due to sponsorship deals, the new club was also known as Pepsi Caserta. The best results of this new club have come in the last two seasons, a third-place finish in LegADue
LegADue
Legadue or Lega2 is the second-highest division of professional club basketball in Italy since 2001-2002 season...
in 2006-07, followed by a second-place finish and playoff victory in 2007-08. The club was then promoted to the Serie A
Serie A (basketball)
Lega Basket Serie A is the highest level club competition in Italian professional basketball where play determines the national champion. The season consists of a home-and-away schedule of 30 games, followed by an eight-team playoff round. Quarterfinals and semifinals series are best-of-five, and...
for the 2008-09 season, after winning the 2007-08 promotion playoffs in the second-level LegADue.
In the 2009-2010 season, Pepsi Caserta reached the play-off semi-finals one more time against the Olimpia Milano, after a second place in the regular season. In the 5 match-challenge, Caserta and Milano were on 2-2 draw with the last and final match remained to play in Caserta. Milano reached the finals against Siena, but Caserta and its supporters celebrated together a wonderful season, seen as the "Coming back" of the Juvecaserta to the former glory.
In August 2010, Caserta was defeated in the first qualifying round for the access to the Euroleague season by the Russian team Khimki and played the Eurocup 2010-2011. In that competition, the first one since the sunset of the 90's, Juvecaserta was able to reach surprisingly the quarter-finals, in which the Italian team faced again a Russian team, the UNICS Kazan (23-30/03/2011). At Palamaggiò, in the first leg, Caserta was defeated by 6 points (final score 84-90). On the second leg, at Kazan, Caserta lost again in an amazing match by 2 points (final score 79-77). The first adventure in European championships after almost 2 decades was then completed by Caserta honouredly.
Current Roster
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Domenico Marzaioli | Guard |
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Łukasz Koszarek Łukasz Koszarek Łukasz Koszarek is a Polish professional basketball player. He is a 1.87 m point guard.He is number 7 for the Italian club Juvecaserta Basket.-Player Profile:... |
Point Guard Point guard Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that... |
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Ebi Ere Ebi Ere Ebi Ere is a US-born Nigerian professional basketball player. He plays shooting guard for the Obradoiro CAB, in the Spanish Liga ACB. He previously played for the Sydney Kings, also of the NBL. Ere won the grand final 2007 with the Brisbane Bullets... |
Shooting Guard Shooting guard The shooting guard , also known as the two or off guard, is one of five traditional positions on a basketball team. Players of the position are often shorter, leaner, and quicker than forwards. A shooting guard's main objective is to score points for his team... |
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Martin Colussi | Forward |
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Salvatore Parrillo | Point Guard Point guard Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that... |
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Alessandro Porfido | Forward |
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Fabio Di Bella | Point Guard Point guard Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that... |
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Tim Bowers | Guard |
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Luca Garri Luca Garri Luca Garri is an Italian basketball player. Standing at 207 cm and weighing 109 kg, he plays as center... |
Center Center (basketball) The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well... |
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Dario Cefarelli | Guard |
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Antonio Zamo | Forward |
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Aaron Doornekamp Aaron Doornekamp Aaron Doornekamp is a Canadian professional basketball player from Odessa, Ontario. Currently playing for Italian team Juvecaserta as of August 2009, he was one of the greatest players in the history of the Carleton University Ravens men's basketball team.Doornekamp is also a member of the... |
Forward |
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Philip Martin Philip Martin Philip Martin may refer to:* Philip Martin , Canadian professional basketball player currently with Juvecaserta Basket* Philip Martin , television and film director... |
Forward/Center Center (basketball) The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well... |
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Andre Smith Andre Smith (basketball) Andre Smith is an American former basketball player. He is best known for his collegiate career at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the late 1970s and early 1980s.... |
Forward |
Notable players
| Davide Ancilotto 4 seasons: '91-'95 Claudio Bonaccorsi 1 season: '93-'94 Alberto Brembilla 6 seasons: '91-'97 David Brkic 2 seasons: '07-'09 Sandro Dell'Agnello 8 seasons: '84-'92 Damiano Faggiano 6 seasons: '90-'94, '95-'97 Cristiano Fazzi 7 seasons: '89-'94, '95-'97 Francesco Foiera 1 season: '04-'05 Pietro Generali 5 seasons: '83-'88 Ferdinando Gentile Ferdinando Gentile Ferdinando "Nando" Gentile is an Italian retired professional basketball player. Gentile is considered one of the best European Shooting guards of the 1990s.-Professional career:... 11 seasons: '82-'93 Andrea Ghiacci 3season: '04-'07 Vincenzo Esposito Vincenzo Esposito Vincenzo Esposito is an Italian former professional basketball player. He is 1.94 m tall and played as a shooting guard... 9 seasons: '84-'93 Francesco Longobardi 7 seasons: '85-'91, '97-'98 Diego Pastori 2 seasons: '94-'96 Fulvio Polesello ? season: ??-?? Giacomantonio Tufano 9 seasons: '86-'89, '90-'96 Mychal Thompson 1 season: '91-'92 Marco Aurélio Pegolo dos Santos (Chuí) 1 season: '96-'97 Oscar Schmidt Oscar Schmidt Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt is a retired Brazilian basketball player. He is also known as Oscar Schmidt Bezerra in Spain, where he played for Fórum Valladolid for the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons, and simply Oscar or Mão Santa in his homeland. At his peak, he was 2.05 m tall and weighed... 8 seasons: '82-'90 Georgi Glouchkov Georgi Glouchkov Georgi Nikolov Glouchkov is a Bulgarian former professional basketball player. A 6 ft 8 in forward, he was the first player from an Eastern bloc country to compete in the American National Basketball Association .-Professional career:Glouchkov began playing with Bulgaria's national team as... 4 seasons: '86-'90 Aaron Doornekamp Aaron Doornekamp Aaron Doornekamp is a Canadian professional basketball player from Odessa, Ontario. Currently playing for Italian team Juvecaserta as of August 2009, he was one of the greatest players in the history of the Carleton University Ravens men's basketball team.Doornekamp is also a member of the... 3 seasons: '07-present Antti Nikkilä Antti Nikkilä Antti Nikkilä is a Finnish basketball player. He stands 2.10 m tall and weighs 122 kg . He played college basketball at Valparaiso University from 1999–2003, and in the season 2006-2007 played for ČEZ Basketball Nymburk in the Czech basketball league... 1 season: '05-'06 Chris Heinrich 1 season: '06-'07 Jay Larranaga Jay Larranaga Jay Larranaga is a former Irish basketball player. He is the current head coach of the Irish national basketball team and the NBA D-League team Erie BayHawks.-Career:... 2 seasons: '07-'09 Guy Goodes Guy Goodes Guy Goodes is a British-Israeli basketball coach, currently an assistant coach for Maccabi Tel Aviv, and a former professional basketball player.-Player:... 1 season: '97-'98 |
Cadillac Anderson Cadillac Anderson Gregory Wayne "Cadillac" Anderson is a retired American professional basketball player.He attended and played collegiate basketball at the University of Houston. He competed in the 1984 Final Four in Seattle while at Houston.A 6' 10" power forward/center, he was selected 23rd overall by the San... 1 season: '92-'93 Joe Arlauckas Joe Arlauckas Joseph John 'Joe' Arlauckas is a retired American professional basketball player, in the power forward position.-College/NBA career:... 1 season: '87-'88 Anthony Avent Anthony Avent Anthony Avent is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the 1st round of the 1991 NBA Draft. Avent played for the Milwaukee Bucks, Orlando Magic, Vancouver Grizzlies, Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Clippers in six NBA seasons... 1 season: '91-'92 Derrick Battie 1 season: '96-'97 Kris Clack Kris Clack Kris Clack is an American professional basketball player, formerly for the University of Texas.During his college career he scored 1,592 points and grabbed 771 rebounds. He was the first McDonald's High School All-American in school history... 1 season: '05-'06 Clifton Clark 1 season: '97-'98 Sean Colson Sean Colson Sean Tyree Colson is an American professional basketball player. A 6'0" point guard, he attended the University of Rhode Island, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Hagerstown Junior College... 2 seasons: '04-'06 Tellis Frank Tellis Frank Tellis Joseph Frank Jr. is a retired American professional basketball player. Frank is a 1983 graduate of Lew Wallace High School.... 3 seasons: '90-'93 Monty Mack 1 season: '04-'05- Pace MannionPace Mannion Pace Shewan Mannion is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the NBA and in the Italian league, especially with the team of Cantù... 1 season: '95-'96 Bill McCaffrey 1 season: '94-'95 BJ McKie BJ McKie BJ McKie , is an American basketball player. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, McKie went to high school at Irmo High School and played for the University of South Carolina men's basketball team. In January 1999, he became the Gamecock's all time leading scorer, surpassing Alex English... 1 season: '06-'07 John Mengelt John Mengelt John P. Mengelt is a former professional basketball player. A 6’2” guard, Mengelt played for Auburn University, with whom he scored 60 points in a 1970 game against Alabama. Mengelt later spent ten seasons in the NBA, playing for the Cincinnati Royals, Kansas City Kings, Detroit Pistons, Chicago... 1 season: ??-?? Josh Powell Josh Powell Josh Powell is an American professional basketball player.-Early life:While playing at NC State, Powell averaged 12.4 ppg and 5.2 rpg in his sophomore year . He was not selected in the 2003 NBA Draft and played in Europe... 1 season: '04-'05 Tom Scheffler Tom Scheffler Tom Scheffler is retired American professional basketball player.-Career:Scheffler played collegiately at Purdue University before spending most of his career in Europe playing in Italy, Spain, Greece, Switzerland and France... 1 season: '87-'88 Charles Shackleford Charles Shackleford Charles Edward Shackleford is an American former professional basketball player.Shackleford played collegiate basketball at North Carolina State University for 3 seasons . He was selected by the New Jersey Nets in the 2nd round of the 1988 NBA Draft... 2 seasons: '90-'91, '93-'94 Wayne Tinkle Wayne Tinkle Wayne Tinkle is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at the University of Montana-Missoula. He served as an assistant for five years prior to becoming the head coach.-Head coaching record:... 1 season: '93-'94 Bernard Toone Bernard Toone Bernard Toone is a retired American basketball player.Toone played collegiately at Marquette University, where as a sophomore reserve he was a member of the Warriors' 1977 National Championship team in Hall of Fame coach Al McGuire's final season... 1 season: ??-?? Kareem Townes 1 season: '96-'97 Elton Tyler 1 season: '06-'07 Kevin Van Veldhuizen 1 season: '97-'98 Leon Wood Leon Wood Osie Leon Wood III , is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1st round of the 1984 NBA Draft. A 6'3" shooting guard from Saint Monica Catholic High School and California State University-Fullerton, Wood played in six NBA seasons for... 1 season: '93-'94 Galen Young Galen Young Galen Young is an American-Canadian professional basketball player currently playing for the Hawke's Bay Hawks in the New Zealand NBL.Young is 1.98 m tall and plays small forward and power forward.-Basketball career:... 1 season: '05-'06 |
Sponsorship names
Due to sponsorship deals, it has also been known as:- Juventus Caserta (1975–76, 1978–79)
- Il Diario Caserta (1979–80)
- Latte Matese Caserta (1980–82)
- Indesit Caserta (1982–85)
- Mobilgirgi Caserta (1985–87)
- Snaidero Caserta (1987–89)
- Phonola Caserta (1989–93)
- Onyx Caserta (1993–94)
- Pepsi Caserta (2000–01)
- Centro Energia Caserta (2001)
- Ellebielle Caserta (2001–02)
- Centro Energia Caserta (2002–03)
- Pepsi Caserta (2003–08)
- Eldo Caserta (2008–09)
- Pepsi Caserta (2009–10)