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2020–21 Virtus Roma Season
The 2020–21 season is Virtus Roma's 61st in existence and the club's Lega Basket Serie A, 2nd consecutive season in the top tier Italian basketball. Overview During the summer preseason period, the team faced financial uncertainty for the 2020–21 LBA season, coming season, but at the end, on July 31, the president Toti decided to subscribe the team to the Lega Basket Serie A. Coach Piero Bucchi was confirmed and the team built in just less than a month. Roma started the season without having a top sponsor and the lack of it brought more financial problems to deal with before the end of the year. In the month of December, Claudio Toti started looking for new owners whom to hand over the team, but no offer was officially made. Finally the decision to withdraw from the Serie A was taken on December 9 and the announcement was first given from the Italian Basketball Federation. Until then Virtus Roma had played 9 games with 2 wins and was placed in the 15th place of the standi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virtus Roma
Virtus Roma 1960, commonly known as Virtus Roma, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Rome, Lazio. The club, named Pallacanestro Virtus Roma competed in the first division of Italian basketball, the LBA, for decades until 2020, when it went bankrupt. In 2021 the club was refounded. It was formerly a major side in Europe, winning the 1983–84 FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague), and at one time being one of only 13 clubs to hold a EuroLeague A license. However, its standing later waned, and Virtus became less competitive in both Europe and the domestic LBA - which it had won in 1983 – before being voluntarily relegated to the Italian second division in July 2015. In December 2020, Virtus was dissolved after the club was declared bankrupt after months of financial struggles. For past club sponsorship names, see sponsorship names. History The club was formed by the merger of two Roman sides, San Saba and Gruppo Borgo Cavalleggeri, under the name Virtus Aure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
