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Franco Casalini
Franco Casalini (1 January 1952 – 28 July 2022) was an Italian basketball coach. He was mainly known from his successful passage through the legendary team of Olimpia Milano in the late 1980s. Career Casalini, after practicing as a basketball player, he passes to coach, in 1971, in the ranks of the ''Social Osa'', the historic Milan team which refers to the oratory of the ''Salesians'' of Milan. In 1972, after obtaining excellent results with the students team, winning the tournament City of Sesto, he is called by Simmenthal to work with the youth department of the club. Casalini begins so a period of 18 years that will continuously be part of Olimpia Milano. As a youth coach he will lead Olimpia to win four league titles, including Cadet and Junior. Having joined Pippo Faina, and after spending nine years to serve as assistant to Dan Peterson, first in cohabitation with William Roggiani and later as a single voice, he began as a coach just with the Milanese team in 1987–88, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a Backboard (basketball), backboard at each end of the court, while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A Field goal (basketball), field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the 3 point line, three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (Overtime (sports), overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by bouncing it while walking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
