Nicolás Mazzarino (born October 21, 1975, in Salto) is a former

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an professional

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player, and current assistant coach for

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of the

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. He also holds an Italian passport. At a height of 1.83 m (6'0") tall,Nicolas MAZZARINO (ITA) Height: 183cm/6'0".
/ref> he played the point guard and shooting guard positions.

Professional career

Mazzarino began his professional career in the Uruguayan club

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in 1991. In this club, Mazzarino won the Uruguayan Federal Championship title in 1994. In 1997, he moved to C.A. Welcome, another Uruguayan

team, where he won 4 consecutive Uruguayan Federal Championships. In 2001, Mazzarino played a brief time in the Argentinian League team C.A. Boca Juniors, but then he returned to C.A. Welcome. In 2001, he moved to the

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, to play in

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, where he became the team's captain and best scorer in the 2004–05 season. After that season, he moved to

Pallacanestro Cantù Pallacanestro Cantù, known for sponsorship reasons as Acqua S.Bernardo Cantù, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Cantù, Lombardy. On the European-wide club competition scene, Cantù is second to Real Madrid – again ...

. In the 2007–08 season, he became the captain of Cantù. His best season with Cantù was the 2009–10 season, when he helped Cantù make it to the Italian League semifinals, after averaging 13.8 points and 2.8 assists per game. In 2013, he returned to Uruguay, and began playing at

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. With the team, he won the Uruguayan Basketball League championship in 2014, 2015, and 2018.

National team career

Mazzarino played with the senior Uruguayan national team from 1997 to 2014. He played with Uruguay at 6

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s (1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2014), 6

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s (

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007,

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), and 3 Pan American Games (

, 2003, and 2007).

References

External links

Euroleague.net ProfileLatinbasket.com ProfileDraftexpress.com ProfileItalian League Profile
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