{"id":43849,"date":"2013-07-29T08:02:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T06:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.demo.olimpia.iquii.info\/hall-of-fame-20-bill-bradley-2\/"},"modified":"2013-07-29T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T06:02:33","slug":"hall-of-fame-20-bill-bradley-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olimpiamilano.com\/en\/hall-of-fame-20-bill-bradley-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame 20: Bill Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second installment of our great Bill Bradley interview with Arthur Kenney, for the upcoming book INDIMENTICABILE: Cesare Rubini, un guerriero dello sport<\/span><\/strong>, the former U.S. Senator speaks about his relationship with coach Cesare Rubini from the negotiations to the end of the season, and with some of his Simmenthal teammates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I first met Cesare Rubini together with President Adolfo Bogoncelli and Ricki Pagani in Budapest in 1965 at the World University Games.\u00a0 They approached me and asked if I would like to play for their team, Simmenthal\/Olimpia Milano.\u00a0 I liked them from the moment I met them and I wanted to spend more time in Italy and learn more about Italy and its rich culture.\u00a0 Coach Rubini and I never needed a translator.\u00a0 We both spoke French badly and both recognized our linguistic imperfections, so neither of us were self-conscious, so I spoke \u201cFranglais\u201d and he spoke a version of Frantaliano, and we had no problems communicating.\u00a0\u00a0 When we did need to step-things-up for more official communications, Ricki Pagani was a very, very capable translator.<\/p>\n

“I also owe a debt of gratitude\u00a0 to Coach Rubini because of his intervention between me and the officials when we played Real Madrid in Madrid.\u00a0 The officiating was completely one-sided.\u00a0 They called many fouls on our team on contested plays even when there was no contact.\u00a0 On the other end of the court they allowed Real Madrid players to get away\u00a0\u00a0 with obvious and even blatant and flagrant fouls with impunity.\u00a0 It was clear that the referees were responsible for our loss by a couple of points.\u00a0 The complete lack of impartiality by the officials made me extremely upset since we deserved to win, and in fact, we deserved to win easily.\u00a0 I pursued the referees to give them a piece of my mind, when I was intercepted by Coach Rubini, who sagely, \u201cbacked-me-down.\u201d\u00a0 He told me in his imperfect French, \u201cBill, what do you expect.\u00a0 One referee is from Poland and the other from Bulgaria.\u00a0 Real Madrid invited them to bring their families and they have been given the royal treatment. What could we expect given the circumstances!\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry, we will easily overcome the deficit in our return game!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Coach Rubini was right- we did overcome the deficit and went-on to the final!<\/p>\n

“When I would come to Milano I stayed at the Club House on Via Caltanissetta, and my housemates were Sandro Riminucci, Gianfranco Pieri and Giandomenico Ongaro among others.\u00a0 While in Milano, I spent a lot of time with my teammates.\u00a0 Sandro and I were very close, and we would go out after games.\u00a0 I also spent time with Gianfranco and Giandomenico.\u00a0 And at the center of all my great Milanesi relationships was Coach Rubini. For me it was a very, very good year, a \u201crich time for me!\u201d Our administrator was Basilio Andolfo.\u00a0\u00a0 Basilio was kind enough to excort me to the opera at La Scala where we saw Rigoletto, and that event was one of my Milanesi highlights.\u00a0 Another highlight was spending hours at the Pinacoteca di Brera, where I enjoyed viewing\u00a0 Carravaggio\u2019s Supper at Emmaus<\/span>.\u00a0 I could view his other version of that painting in The National Gallery in London.\u00a0 (2-to be continued)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the second installment of our great Bill Bradley interview with Arthur Kenney, for the upcoming book INDIMENTICABILE: Cesare Rubini, un guerriero dello sport, the former U.S. Senator speaks about his relationship with coach Cesare Rubini from the negotiations to the end of the season, and with some of his Simmenthal teammates. “I first met […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"tipo_news":[198],"class_list":["post-43849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tipo_news-news_generali-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHall of Fame 20: Bill Bradley - Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For the second installment of our great Bill Bradley interview with Arthur Kenney, for the upcoming book INDIMENTICABILE: Cesare Rubini, un guerriero dello sport\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.olimpiamilano.com\/en\/hall-of-fame-20-bill-bradley-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hall of Fame 20: Bill Bradley - 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