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Openjobmetis Varese
Leagues	LBA FIBA Europe Cup
Founded	1945
History	Pallacanestro Varese (1946–present)
Arena	Palasport Lino Oldrini
Capacity	5,107
Location	Varese, Italy
Team colors	White, Red
President	Marco Vittorelli
Head coach	Attilio Caja
Championships	10 Italian Leagues 4 Italian Cups 1 Italian Supercup 3 Intercontinental Cups 5 EuroLeagues 2 Saporta Cups
Website	pallacanestrovarese.it
Uniforms
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Pallacanestro Varese, also called by its current sponsor's name, the Openjobmetis Varese, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Varese, Lombardy. Founded in 1945, the team plays in the Italian first division Lega Basket Serie A (LBA).

For past club sponsorship names, see sponsorship names.

History

Varese captain Ottorino Flaborea lifts the FIBA European Champions Cup trophy after defeating CSKA Moscow at the final in Sarajevo's Skenderija on 4 April 1970 — the first of the club's five European titles during the 1970s.

Basketball was introduced in Varese in 1945, with the creation of the historical club, Pallacanestro Varese. The first sponsors were introduced 8 years later in 1954, including Storm and Ignis, followed by Emerson, Turisanda, Cagiva, Star, Ciaocrem, Divarese, Ranger, Metis, Whirlpool, and the most recent, Cimberio. Varese is also famous due to the lack of its having a main sponsor in the mid-1990s (something unusual in the Italian basketball league), and the choice of its franchise name, the Varese Roosters.

Since their creation, Pallancanestro Varese has won 10 Italian first-tier level LBA titles, in the years 1961, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, and their last Italian League title, won 21 years after the previous title, in 1999. With 10 titles, Pallacanestro Varese is the third most winning team ever in the Italian League, after Olimpia Milano and Virtus Bologna.

As it is shown by its roll of honors, Varese was extremely competitive in the 1970s, when the club played in the European-wide first-tier level FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague), and played in ten finals in a row, winning 5 of them, in the years 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975, and 1976. Between 1970 and 1975, the club was named Ignis Varese. What was the club's golden age had begun some years before, as Varese conquered the FIBA Intercontinental Cup in 1966, and repeated the same title 4 and 7 years later, in the middle of the club's greatest decade in 1970 and 1973. Varese accomplished the great feat of winning the Triple Crown, winning all the trophies available in 1973, with the legendary Professor Aca Nikolić as the team's head coach. Varese also won two championships of the European-wide first-tier level FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup, in 1967 and 1980, and four Italian Cups, in 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1973.

Varese's great age ended in the early nineties, when the team dropped down to the Italian second division. Soon, the club took its revenge, coming up once again to the Italian top-tier level league, and after 5 years time became the real team to watch in the Italian League's playoffs, as it succeeded in winning its historical 10th Italian League title in 1999, with Carlo Recalcati (who later coached the Italian national team), leading the way as the club's head coach. Varese has never repeated that triumph so far, but that success is still remembered to this day. Varese has been trying to return to the top of the Italian League and European-wide competitions in the years since.

Current roster

Openjobmetis Varese roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age F 7000200000000000000♠2 Archie, Dominique 7000200999999999999♠2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 7001930000000000000♠93 kg (205 lb) 31 – (1987-08-19)19 August 1987 G 7000400000000000000♠4 Avramović, Aleksa 7000192000000000000♠1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb) 23 – (1994-10-25)25 October 1994 C 7000700000000000000♠7 Iannuzzi, Antonio 7000208000000000000♠2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 7002106000000000000♠106 kg (234 lb) 27 – (1991-04-21)21 April 1991 FG 7000800000000000000♠8 Natali, Nicola 7000200000000000000♠2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 7001950000000000000♠95 kg (209 lb) 30 – (1988-09-01)1 September 1988 SF 7001110000000000000♠11 Scrubb, Thomas 7000198000000000000♠1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 7001910000000000000♠91 kg (201 lb) 26 – (1991-11-26)26 November 1991 PF 7001130000000000000♠13 Verri, Damiano 7000206000000000000♠2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 7002100000000000000♠100 kg (220 lb) 32 – (1985-12-20)20 December 1985 PG 7001150000000000000♠15 Tambone, Matteo 7000192000000000000♠1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 7001930000000000000♠93 kg (205 lb) 24 – (1994-05-14)14 May 1994 PF 7001160000000000000♠16 Cain, Tyler 7000202999999999999♠2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 7002107000000000000♠107 kg (236 lb) 30 – (1988-06-30)30 June 1988 G 7001170000000000000♠17 Bertoglio, Nicola 7000187000000000000♠1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) 7001820000000000000♠82 kg (181 lb) 25 – (1993-01-18)18 January 1993 F 7001210000000000000♠21 Ferrero, Giancarlo (C) 7000198000000000000♠1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 7001970000000000000♠97 kg (214 lb) 30 – (1988-08-29)29 August 1988 PG 7001250000000000000♠25 Moore, Ronald 7000183000000000000♠1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 7001780000000000000♠78 kg (172 lb) 30 – (1988-07-14)14 July 1988 SG 7001450000000000000♠45 Bertone, Pablo 7000193000000000000♠1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 7001900000000000000♠90 kg (198 lb) 28 – (1990-03-29)29 March 1990	Head coach Attilio Caja Assistant coach(es) Massimo Bulleri Raimondo Diamante Matteo Jemoli Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: August 31, 2018

Season by season

Honours

Total titles: 25

Palasport Lino Oldrini

Domestic competitions

• Italian League

Winners (10): 1960–61, 1963–64, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1998–99

Runners-up (10): 1948–49, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1971–72, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1989–90

• Italian Cup

Winners (4): 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1972–73

Runners-up (5): 1971–72, 1984–85, 1987–88, 1998–99, 2012–13

• Italian Supercup

Winners (1): 1999

Runners-up (1): 2013

European competitions

• EuroLeague

Winners (5): 1969–70, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76

Runners-up (5): 1970–71, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79

Semifinalist (1): 1964–65

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  FIBA Saporta Cup (defunct)
  

Winners (2): 1966–67, 1979–80

Semifinalist (2): 1967–68, 1980–81

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  FIBA Korać Cup (defunct)
  

Runners-up (1): 1984–85

Semifinalist (1): 1985–86

• FIBA Europe Cup

Runners-up (1): 2015–16

Worldwide competitions

• FIBA Intercontinental Cup

Winners (3): 1966, 1970, 1973

Runners-up (4): 1967, 1974, 1976, 1977

3rd place (1): 1979

4th place (1): 1978

• McDonald's Championship

4th place (1): 1999

Individual club awards

• Triple Crown

Winners (2): 1969–70, 1972–73

International record

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  Paolo Conti
  


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  Marcelo Damiao
  


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  Alessandro De Pol
  


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  Fabrizio Della Fiori
  


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  Massimo Ferraiuolo
  


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  Giacomo Galanda
  


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  Guido Iellini
  


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  Andrea Meneghin
  


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  Dino Meneghin
  


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  Luigi Mentasti
  


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  Nico Messina
  


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  Alberto Mottini
  


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  Aldo Ossola
  


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  Gianmarco Pozzecco
  


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  Edoardo Rusconi
  


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  Stefano Rusconi
  


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  Romeo Sacchetti
  


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  Enrico Ravaglia
  


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  Francesco Vescovi
  


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  Paolo Vittori
  


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  Marino Zanatta
  


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  Cristiano Zanus Fortes
  


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  Antonio Zorzi
  

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  Anthony Bowie
  


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  Frank Brickowski
  


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  Bill Campion
  


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  Geno Carlisle
  


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  Tim Bassett
  


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  Derek Hamilton
  


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  Delonte Holland
  


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  Cedric Hordges
  


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  Frank Johnson
  


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  Antony Gennari
  


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  Kevin Magee
  


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  Stan McKenzie
  


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  Billy Keys
  


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  Rusty LaRue
  


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  Pat Cummings
  


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  John Deveraux
  


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  Bill Edwards
  


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  Wes Matthews
  


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  Jerry McCullough
  


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  Larry Micheaux
  


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  Corny Thompson
  


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  Derrel Washington
  


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  Terry White
  


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  Leon Wood
  


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  Charlie Yelverton
  


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  Reggie Theus
  


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  Tyrone Nesby
  


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  Norman Nolan
  


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  Charles Pittman
  


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  Bob Morse
  


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  DeJuan Collins
  


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  Daniel Farabello
  


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  Gabriel Fernández
  


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  Arijan Komazec
  


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  Mate Skelin
  


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  Veljko Mršić
  


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  Boris Gorenc
  


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  Sani Bečirović
  


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  Aleksandar Ćapin
  


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  Alain Digbeu
  


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  Kristjan Kangur
  


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  Janar Talts
  


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  Daniel Santiago
  


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  Richard Petruška
  


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  Pavel Podkolzin
  


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  Manuel Raga
  


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  Nikola Lončar
  

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  Fedon Matheou
  


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Head coaches

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  Enrico Garbosi (1956–62)
  


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  Vittorio Tracuzzi (1966–68)
  


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  Nico Messina (1968–69 & 1977–78)
  


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  Aleksandar Nikolić (1969–73)
  


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  Sandro Gamba (1973–77)
  


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  Edoardo Rusconi (1978–80, 1993–97 & 2003–04)
  


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  Joe Isaac (1986–89 & 1992–93)
  


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  Carlo Recalcati (1997–99 & 2010–12)
  


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  Valerio Bianchini (1999 & 2007–08)
  


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  Gianfranco Lombardi (2000–2001)
  


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  Grégor Beugnot (2001–03)
  


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  Ruben Magnano (2004–07)
  

Sponsorship names

Through the years, due to sponsorship deals, it has been also known as:^[1]

Shirt sponsors and manufacturers

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References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pallacanestro Varese.

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  Official Website (in Italian)
  


• Eurobasket.com Team Page


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  Varese Basket Blog (in Italian)