Cesare Rubini

Cesare Rubini ( born November 2, 1923 in Trieste, † February 8, 2011 in Milan ) was an Italian basketball coach and players and water polo players.

Career

From 1947 to 1978, he coached the team Olimpia Milano in the first Italian basketball league. Until 1955, he was there as a player is active, he also took on the Italian national basketball team participated in the European Championships in 1946 and won the silver medal there. 15 times ( 1950-54, 1957-60, 1962-63, 1965-67, 1972) succeeded with this team a title. At the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, he led the Italian national team for winning the silver medal. Rubini was 1979 to 2002 Founder and President of the World Association of Basketball Coaches. He was a member of the FIBA Central Committee since 1984. On 9 May 1994, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The FIBA Order of Merit ' he received in November 2002.

Rubini played at the 1948 Olympic Games in London and at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki for the Italian national water polo team and won gold and bronze, respectively. In 2000 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the international swimming sport. In 2013, two years after his death, also was admitted into the FIBA Hall of Fame.