Ferdinando Gentile
Ferdinando Gentile ( born January 1, 1967 in Passignano, Italy ) is an Italian former basketball player and current coach. His sons Alessandro and Stefano are also basketball professionals.
Playing career
Club career
His professional career began Gentile, who played on the position of point guard, with Juventus Caserta, an association of Caserta. After one season at Pallacanestro Trieste joined Gentile 1994 Italian tradition club Stefanel Milano where he stood until 1998 under contract. Although Gentile by this time next two championships also twice won the Italian club trophy, weighed heavily lost the European Cup final. Four times he was able to leave the winner without a place in the final of the Korac Cup (1986, 1994, 1995, 1996) and one more time in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup (1989 ) and the Saporta Cup (1998). In 1998 Gentile to the Greek top club Panathinaikos Athens. With the Greeks, he won three championships in a row and was in 2000, alongside players such as Fragiskos Alvertis, Dejan Bodiroga, Željko Rebrača, or Michael Koch, recorded with the European Champions Cup the most important of his career. In 2001 he was once more in a European Cup final ( Suproleague ), it lost to Athens but with Maccabi Tel Aviv could be beaten even in last year's final. 2001 Gentile returned to Italy in 2003 where he his active playing career ended after one season each with Snaidero Udine and Mens Sana Siena.
National
In the Italian national team, for whom he scored 962 points in 132 internationals, Gentile was active from 1987 to 1996. During this period, he participated in four European Championships and reached 1991 on home soil the silver medal. In 1993 he won the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games.
Achievements
- Italian basketball champion: 1991, 1996
- Greek champion: 1999, 2000, 2001
- Italian Basketball Cup: 1988, 1996
- European Champion Clubs' Cup: 2000
- European runners-up: 1991
- Gold medal at the Mediterranean Championships: 1993
Coaching career
Gentile's first as a coach was Andrea Costa Imola, he took over at the start of the 2006/2007 season and coached for two years. In 2008 he was an assistant coach for the Italian ULEB Euro League participants Lottomatica Roma, where he was promoted in December of the same year head coach. There he remained for a year before he resigned after only three wins from their first nine games of the 2009/10 season in Serie A. In 2011 he took over the coaching job at second division Veroli Basket.