Viola Reggio Calabria

2012/13: 10th place

Viola Reggio Calabria is an Italian basketball club from Reggio Calabria. The professional men's team of the club played several seasons in the top domestic league championship Lega Basket Serie A and also took several times on the European club competition Korać Cup part. According to economic difficulties, the professional team was disbanded and re-founded twice under different, slightly different name. So you took initially under the name Cestistica Piero Viola until 1997 the game operation part, then the start-up followed by the name Nuovo Basket Viola Reggio '98 and finally 2009 ( team basketball ) Viola Reggio Calabria.

History

The founding of the Association in 1966 on the initiative of Giuseppe Viola, who named the club after his late brother Piero Piero Cestistica Viola and took over the legacy of the pre-existing local association AICS. After they had played for years in Serie C in 1974 reached the summit in the third- highest division series B. In 1983, after nine seasons first in Serie B in group B and rose to the A2 series. The ascent was the construction of the sports hall Botteghelle necessary because the old game site no longer met the requirements of the FIP for the second division. Already in the second season in the new league succeeded the championship in Serie A2 and the rise in the highest national league Serie A1.

The first top-flight season 1984/85 in the Serie A1 was finished on the 13th and fourth last place in the table, only by the poorer direct comparison from the last non- relegation zone away. After returning to the second-class series A2 it took three years to those in the 1988/89 season under coach Tonino Zorzi, later a member of the Italian "Basketball Hall of Fame", again won the championship in Serie A2 and the return to top division reached. The second Premiership season 1989/90 they finished the season with a positive balance in seventh place in the table. In the first championship play-off participation of the association would retire in the quarterfinals after a opening victory in three games against the eventual runner- Ranger Varese from. The following season, Carlo Recalcati took over as coach for the next six years and we first played internationally in Korac Cup 1990/91, but in the championship, however, was reached in the end only the 12th place in the table and had a Relegation Round with the best second division. Here one only came in a balanced score of five wins in ten games that was not enough for one of the two top places in the relegation round and thus relegation from Serie A meant. In the series A2 then you won in the 1991/92 season the championship and went directly back into the top flight.

When you return to the Serie A was achieved in the 1992/93 season in the new hall PalaCalafiore under the name Panasonic sponsors the best end of season ranking in the top division in sixth place after the regular season. The play-off quarter-final series lost the team, who was, among others, Olympic gold medalist and former NBA professional Alexander Volkov, in the decisive third game with two points difference in defending Benetton Treviso after a successful basket attempt by Dean Garrett in the closing seconds of the referees was revoked. In the following season they reached the group stage of the 16 best teams in which you retired after just one win in six games in the Korac Cup 1993/94. In the national championship, it was enough in the final ranking to seventh place, which again followed the resignation in the quarter-final series, this time against the eventual runner- Scavolini Pesaro. According to an eleventh place in the 1994/95 season it was enough in the season 1995/96 to an eighth final table space. As in the following season as Tabellenelfter one then dropped out in the "Pre- play-offs " or knockout stages of the championship.

In the 1997/98 season it came to the bankruptcy of the previous Cestistica Piero Viola in December 1997. The game company was continued from January 1998 of the Basket Viola Reggio Calabria until the end of the season. After only seven wins one landed in the overshadowed by the bankruptcy season at the bottom of the table and got down again. Then the matches of the Nuovo Basket Viola Reggio '98 was continued in the series A2. After a third place in Serie A2 1998 they reached the play- offs for promotion the immediate return to the top flight. In an experienced team, in addition to Brian Oliver otherwise the Argentine rising star Ginóbili Emanuel stood out, was reached after the re-emergence in 2000 again a seventh place in the table. In the play-off quarter-final they dueled with children Bologna to Predrag Danilović and Antoine Rigaudeau the full distance of five games with the better end for the main round Second favorite. After Ginóbili to league rivals joined children, there to replace Danilović and win with the team the ULEB Euro League 2000 / 01, he was replaced by his compatriot Carlos Delfino at Viola. But they finished the season 2000/ 01 only in 14th place in the championship. In Korac Cup 2000 /01 it was eliminated in the second round against Ironi Ramat Gan. In the following season, 2001/ 02 it reached in the championship only 16 and fourth last place in the table. Well Delfino also moved to Bologna, but not to Virtus to replace the migrated in the NBA, Ginóbili, but to skipper Fortitude.

The newly formed team reached a ninth place in the 2002/03 season and was able to qualify on the pre- play-offs for the play-off quarter-final series against defending champions Benetton Treviso. Here you went against the team that was to celebrate a "triple" from Championship, Cup and ULEB Euro League 2002/ 03 season at the end, great with 2 wins in leadership. But the remaining three games in the series were then added as of yet, including the fourth game at home with just two points difference. In the following season, it was enough again to ninth place in the table, but was not enough to qualify for the championship finals for the abolition of the pre- playoffs. The following season ended in 2005 with the crash on the penultimate place in the table. The license withdrawal by Scavolini Pesaro kept the club before going to the Legadue that had the series A2 replaced. This had to be started a season later, in 2006, after finished the season just three wins in 34 games in the last place. However, the economic difficulties of the association led to the cancellation of the team from the professional game operation.

2009 followed the restart as a team Basket Viola Reggio Calabria in the fourth-rate " series B Dilettanti ". After the play-off finals, they lost in the second year after the re- founding in 2011 to the uprising against Orlandina Basket, succeeded in the season 2011/12, the rise in the now as " Divisione Nazionale A " designated third division. According to a tenth place in the table in the 2012/13 season, you will in the following season 2013/14 the newly established " Legadue Argento " belong, which is connected as a substructure of the Legadue.

Known player

United States Charles Kupec 1983-1985
United States Reggie King 1985/86
United States Joe Bryant 1986/87
United States Dan Caldwell 1987-1990
Italy Roberto Bullera 1989-1996
United States Michael Young 1990-1992
United States Dean Garrett 1990-1993
Argentina / Italy Hugo Sconochini 1990-1993
Ukraine Alexander Volkov 1992/93
Italy Paolo Giuliani 1992-1994, 1996-1998
United States Ken Barlow 1993/94
United States Kevin Pritchard 1993/94
Italy Marco Baldi 1993/94

Italy Alessandro Fantozzi 1994/95, Coach 2010-2012
United States Randy White 1994/95
United States Mike Brown 1996-1998
United States Brian Oliver 1996/97, 1999/2000
United States / Ireland Jay Larrañaga 1997/98, 2004/ 05
United States / Poland Jeff Nordgaard 1998/99
Argentina Emanuel Ginóbili 1998-2000
Italy Sebastiano Grasso 1998-2001, 2009-2012
United States Kevin Thompson 1999/2000
Ivory Coast Marc M'Bahia 1999/2000, 2001
Italy Andrea Blasi 1999/2000, 2001/ 02
France Thierry Gadou 2000/ 01
Argentina Leandro Palladino 2000/ 01

Argentina Carlos Delfino 2000-2002
United States Brian Evans 2001/ 02
United States Anthony G. Tucker 2001/ 02
United States Anthony Williams 2001-2003, 2006/07
Nigeria / Italy Benjamin Eze 2001-2004
Italy Alessandro Cittadini 2002-2004
United States Titus Ivory 2002-2004
Italy Walter Santa Rossa 2003/ 04
United States LaVell Blanchard 2003-2005
United States Vincent Yarbrough 2005/ 06
Aleksandar Capin Slovenia 2005/ 06
Slovenia / Italy Marko Verginella 2005/ 06
United States / Italy Anthony Maestranzi 2006/ 07

With a few uses also the following players from the German-speaking countries for Viola were active:

Germany Christian Welp 1999
Germany Detlef Musch 2000/ 01
Germany Marvin Willoughby 2004
Canada / Germany Michael Meeks 2004/ 05
Switzerland Dušan Mlađan 2006/ 07

Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro Panasonic (brand) Alexander Volkov (basketball) 2000–01 Euroleague 2002–03 Euroleague Legadue Basket Chris Welp Michael Meeks (basketball)

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