Amedeo Della Valle (born April 11, 1993) is an Italian professional

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player for Basket Brescia Leonessa of the Italian

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. He attended

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before spending two seasons playing

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for the

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High school career

Wanting to develop his basketball in a different way, he moved to the United States in 2011, to

high school in

. There, he was a starter in their National High School Invitational victory in 2012, breaking the school record for three-pointers in a season, with 66.

College career

This caught the eye of several colleges and, after graduating, he signed a

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to play for

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in the

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of the

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, choosing them over scholarship offers from

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and

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. The only player recruited that year by Ohio State, Amedeo took some time to adapt to the rigours of college basketball, especially the physical side having never done weights in the past, he was exclusively used as a bench player in his freshman season. Having put on weight for his sophomore season he started earning more game time although he stayed a bench option, he notably was decisive in overturning an 18-point, second-half deficit to beat Nebraska in the quarter-finals of the Big Ten tournament in what is regarded as his best game for the team. After Ohio State's elimination in the first round of the NCAA Division I tournament against Dayton he announced his intention to return to Italy to play professional basketball.

College statistics

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Professional career

Della Valle returned to Italy, joining

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and EuroCup-playing side

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declaredly because of the team's policy of trusting young Italian players, signing a contract until 2019. During his career Della Valle was named LBA All-Star (2014),

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(2015) and All-EuroCup First Team (2018) and he won the

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(2014) and the

(2015). On June 16, 2018, the president of

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, Livio Proli, said the club reached an agreement with Della Valle for the 2018–19 season. On June 22, 2018, Olimpia Milano officially announced Della Valle as new player. On July 11, 2020, he has signed with Herbalife Gran Canaria of the Spanish

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. After six games, he parted ways with the team on October 23. Della Valle subsequently signed with Budućnost of the

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. Della Valle returned to Italy for the season 2021-22 with Basket Brescia Leonessa. He was announced on June 23rd, 2021.

National team career

Della Valle started playing for the youth squads of the

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, first with the Under-16's in 2009. He notably won the gold medal with the U20's at the 2013 European Championship where he was an important contributor winning the

award. He was called up to the squad that would take part in

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to start on 5 September.

Personal life

His father is Carlo Della Valle , who had a career in the first division, he also was a guard noted for compensating his lack of athleticism with excellent technique. Amedeo originally had no plans of going abroad to play, but a holiday in Miami with his mother in 2006 motivated him to move to the U.S. for lifestyle and athletic reasons. Della Valle, a crowd favourite at

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"Della Valle for president? Why not?".
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'', Indianapolis, 14 March 2014. Retrieved on 3 March 2015. "La Faccia Cattiva di Amedeo Della Valle", a

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page with almost 13.000 followers and a clothing brand, is based on his trademark three-pointer celebration

Career statistics

Euroleague

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References

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