Diego Ciorciari

Diego Ciorciari

Nickname(s)	El 'Pichón' Ciorciari[1]
Position	Point guard
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
League	Liga ACB
Team	Menorca Basquet
Born	March 2, 1980 (1980-03-02) (age 31) Santa Fe, Argentina
Nationality	Argentine / Italian
Pro career	1997–present
Career history	Ferro Carril Oeste (1997–2002) Arkadia Traiskirchen (2002) De Vizia Avellino (2002) Vip Rimini (2002–03) CAI Zaragoza (2003–04) Lagun Aro Bilbao Basket (2004–05) Calpe Aguas (2005–06) Leche Río Breogán (2006–07) Melilla Baloncesto (2007–09)
Awards	LNB Slam Dunk Contest Winner (2001)

Diego Andrés Ciorciari (born 2 March 1980) is an Argentine professional basketball player who plays point guard with Menorca Basquet of Spanish ACB League.

Early years

He began to play basketball in an amateur club called Rivadavia Juniors, in his home city, Santa Fe.^[1]

Pro career

Ciorciari first started to play as a professional in Argentina in 1997, when he was only 17, playing for Ferro Carril Oeste with Luis Scola and Federico Kammerichs among others. Because he was the youngest player of the team, the speaker nicknamed him El 'pichón' Ciorciari, being pichón a baby bird.^[1] Despite his height, in 2001 he won the LNB Slam Dunk Contest against Walter Herrmann, after having lost the final the year before.^[1]

Afterwards he moved to Austria, where he played only for two months before he moved to Italy, where he played in Lega and Lega-2. In 2003 he signed for CAI Zaragoza, of Spanish second division LEB, and on the 4 November 2004 he made his debut in ACB with Lagun Aro Bilbao Basket. From 2005 to 2010 he played in the LEB league in different teams, and on May 2010 he won the LEB Play-off with Menorca basket and promoted to ACB.^[2]

Clubs

• Ferro Carril Oeste - LNB (Argentina) - 1997/2002
• Arkadia Traiskirchen - OBL (Austria) - 2002
• De Vizia Avellino - Lega (Italy) - 2002
• Vip Rimini - Legadue (Italy) - 2002/2003
• CAI Zaragoza - LEB (Spain) - 2003/2004
• Lagun Aro Bilbao Basket - ACB (Spain) - 2004/2005
• Calpe Aguas - LEB (Spain) - 2005/2006
• Leche Río Breogán - LEB (Spain) - 2006/2007
• Melilla Baloncesto - LEB (Spain) - 2007/2009
• ViveMenorca - LEB & ACB (Spain) - 2009/present

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "En la cabeza de... Diego Ciorciari" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 2010-11-11. http://www.acb.com/redaccion.php?id=71723. Retrieved 2010-11-11. 
2. ^ "ViveMenorca Back In ACB Next Season". basketballinspain.com. http://www.basketballinspain.com/vivemenorca-back-in-acb-next-season.html. Retrieved 2010-11-11. 

External links

• ACB Profile

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Name	Ciorciari, Diego
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Date of birth	2 March 1980
Place of birth	Santa Fe, Argentina
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