Orlandina Basket

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Orlandina Basket
Founded	1978
Arena	PalaFantozzi
Team History	Orlandina Basket (1978-present)
Team Colors	White and Blue
Owner	Enzo Sindoni
Head Coach	Romeo Sacchetti

Orlandina Basket, also known for sponsorship reasons as Pierrel Capo d'Orlando, is an Italian basketball club from the town of Capo d'Orlando, Sicily. It was founded in 1978, and is among the most recently founded basketball teams in the Italian top division.

1 History
2 Arena
3 2007-2008 Roster
4 Notable past players
5 External links

[edit] History

Following its foundation, the club played mostly in regional leagues, before being acquired in 1996 by the current management. Following the bid, Orlandina Basket obtained two consecutive promotions up to Serie B2 in 1998, when former Italy international star Alessandro Fantozzi was signed. The club won promotion to Serie B1 in 2000, and to LegADue, the second-highest division in Italian basketball, the next year. Orlandina, however, relegated to Serie B1 in 2003. Nevertheless, in 2004 Orlandina was admitted back to LegADue by the federation because of league vacancies. Successively to that, Orlandina dominated the 2004/2005 LegADue table and promoted to Serie A, becoming the fifth Sicilian city to be represented in the Italian top basketball division, after Catania, Palermo, Trapani and Messina.

[edit] Arena

Today, the team plays its home games in the PalaFantozzi (named after former Orlandina star Alessandro Fantozzi), seating 3,613 spectators.

[edit] 2007-2008 Roster

4	Gianmarco Pozzecco	Point guard
5	Francesco Orsini	Shooting guard
6	Davide Bruttini	Power forward
7	Rolando Howell	Center
8	Klaudio Ndoja	Small forward
9	Colin Falls	Shooting guard
11	Martynas Mažeika	Point guard/Shooting guard
13	Andrea Pomenti	Power forward
14	Juan Manuel Fabi	Point guard
15	Tamar Slay	Shooting guard
16	Drake Diener	Shooting guard
17	Sammy Mejia	Shooting Guard
18	Charles Judson Wallace	Power forward/Center
19	Adam Wojcik	Center
20	Oscar Gugliotta	Shooting guard
	Romel Beck	Shooting guard
	Antonio Fazio	Shooting guard
	Enrico Mobilia	Shooting guard