Olimpia All-Time By Facebook

Olimpia Milano's Facebook Fans, registered on the official FB page (more than 17.000), have chosen the All-Time Starting Line-up for our team, expressing their preference position by position. The ideal line-up includes Mike D'Antoni as the point-guard, Roberto Premier at the shooting-guard, Danilo Gallinari at the small forward position, Bob McAdoo playing at the power Read More »

Olimpia All-Time By Facebook

Olimpia Milano's Facebook Fans, registered on the official FB page (more than 17.000), have chosen the All-Time Starting Line-up for our team, expressing their preference position by position. The ideal line-up includes Mike D'Antoni as the point-guard, Roberto Premier at the shooting-guard, Danilo Gallinari at the small forward position, Bob McAdoo playing at the power Read More »

Hall of Fame 3: Ricky Pagani

Everybody called him Ricky. Enrico Pagani was the Simmenthal captain and also some sort of symbol outside the lines: beautiful, with Asian eyes, the product of being born from a Russian mother in Shangai. They called him also “The Chinese” and had a role in a famous movie “The Dreams in the Drawers” along a Read More »

Hall of Fame 3: Ricky Pagani

Everybody called him Ricky. Enrico Pagani was the Simmenthal captain and also some sort of symbol outside the lines: beautiful, with Asian eyes, the product of being born from a Russian mother in Shangai. They called him also “The Chinese” and had a role in a famous movie “The Dreams in the Drawers” along a Read More »

Hall of Fame 2: Cesare Rubini

Cesare Rubini, The Prince. Enough said. He hasn't been just the Great Olimpia Milano's legend; he has been a lot more. Rubini has been the greatest athlete ever if we can mix two sports completely different one from the other, basketball and waterpolo. A Trieste native, he was brought in Milano to launch Adolfo Bogoncelli's Read More »

Hall of Fame 2: Cesare Rubini

Cesare Rubini, The Prince. Enough said. He hasn't been just the Great Olimpia Milano's legend; he has been a lot more. Rubini has been the greatest athlete ever if we can mix two sports completely different one from the other, basketball and waterpolo. A Trieste native, he was brought in Milano to launch Adolfo Bogoncelli's Read More »

Hall of Fame 1: Adolfo Bogoncelli

Here we start presenting the members of the Olimpia's Hall of Fame. The first one is obviously Adolfo Bogoncelli (Sandro Riminucci is in the picture with him). Adolfo Bogoncelli, the Bogos, is Mister Olimpia. All the club's history is part of his personal story. Bogoncelli is the one who founded Olimpia and then kept the Read More »

Hall of Fame 1: Adolfo Bogoncelli

Here we start presenting the members of the Olimpia's Hall of Fame. The first one is obviously Adolfo Bogoncelli (Sandro Riminucci is in the picture with him). Adolfo Bogoncelli, the Bogos, is Mister Olimpia. All the club's history is part of his personal story. Bogoncelli is the one who founded Olimpia and then kept the Read More »

Olimpia’s Hall of Fame: here we go!

Five World Hall of Famers  in Springfield, right where basketball was born at the end of the 800s. And it's just a statistic, because in fact Olimpia wrote many pages of basketball history, in Milan, in Italy, all around the World. To make sure the history is right here, we decided to create our own Read More »

Olimpia’s Hall of Fame: here we go!

Five World Hall of Famers  in Springfield, right where basketball was born at the end of the 800s. And it's just a statistic, because in fact Olimpia wrote many pages of basketball history, in Milan, in Italy, all around the World. To make sure the history is right here, we decided to create our own Read More »