Antonello Riva
Antonello Riva ( born February 28, 1962 in Rovagnate, Lombardy ) is an Italian former professional basketball player who was active from 1977 to 2005. Both in the highest Italian league and in the national team, he holds the record for most points scored.
Antonello Riva was honored in May 2008 as one of the fifty major personalities of the sport of basketball in Europe. The ceremony was performed by the Euro League Basketball at an official ceremony at the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid (Spain).
- 2.1 At the club level
- 2.2 At national level
- 2.3 Individual records
Career
In the club
Riva began his career in 1977 Pallacanestro Cantu, where he remained until 1989. He developed it quickly became offensively dangerous players of the club. The introduction of the three- point line in 1984 brought the good distance shooters other advantages, so its points rate increased to an average of 31.2 per game last. Due to the strong competition from Dražen Dalipagić and especially Oscar Schmidt he was never scorer a season.
Title won with Riva Cantu, however, especially in its early years. In addition to three wins of the European Cup Winners' Cup include the Italian championship in 1981 and the following two victories in the European Champions Cup. Subsequently, however, could not be reached by Cantù the championship final and eventually joined the Italian champions Olimpia Milano Riva.
In Milano Riva played together with star players like Bob McAdoo and Aleksandar Djordjevic, but turned out to success here, with the exception of the Victory in Korac Cup 1993 is not one. His statistical values also decreased significantly from 1991 in particular provides, notwithstanding his change to Scavolini Pesaro in 1994 changed little. After two seasons in Serie A2 at Pallacanestro Gorizia Riva returned to Cantu, where he played until 2002. The career was Riva finally end the evening with unterklassigen Club Basket Rieti.
Riva is with 13,275 points in 727 games record scorer of the Serie A1 and the only player to break the 10,000 mark. He also surpassed combined late in his career, the record score by Oscar Schmidt for games of the series A1 and A2 series. Ultimately Riva came here on 14,397 points, Schmidt contrast to 13,957, for which he had, however, much less match required. With 8,491 points achieved for Cantu Riva is also within the association only slightly behind his long-time team-mate Pierluigi Marzorati ( 8659 ).
In the National Team
In the first major tournament, which denied Riva for the Italian national team, namely the European Championship in 1981, he finished 5th. His greatest triumph with the national team, he celebrated in 1983 by winning the European Championship, in which he also became the top scorer with only 21 years of the Italians. In 1984, with an average of 23.4 points Riva his team to 5th place in the Olympic Games.
After the European Championship in 1985 missed due to injury, Riva resigned from Italy in the 1986 World Cup and the European Championship in 1987 each in the quarterfinals. 4th place at the European Championship 1989 saw an average of 29.4 points per game in spite of Riva, which made him the second best scorer of the tournament by Oscar Schmidt, a rather disappointing ninth place finish at the 1990 World Cup. A successful completion of his national team career, he could 1991 celebrate with the EM - finals. Overall Riva scored in 213 internationals 3,785 points and so on 900 more than any other Italian international.
Achievements
At club level
At national level
- European Championships: gold in 1983, silver in 1991
Individual records
- Top scorer of the Serie A1 ( 13,275 points in 727 games ) and the Serie A, total ( 14,397 points in 797 games)
- Top scorer of the Italian national team ( 3,785 points in 213 games)
- Second best scorer of the World Cup 1990 (235 points in 8 games )
- Highest score received for the Italian national team in a game ( 46 against the election of Switzerland 1987)