Diego Osella

Diego Osella

Nickname(s)	La Torre (The Tower)
Position	Center
Height	2.07 metres (6 ft 9 in)
League	Liga Nacional de Básquet
Team	Atenas
Number	11
Born	September 4, 1969 (1969-09-04) (age 42) Oncativo, Córdoba, Argentina
Nationality	Argentine
Career history	Atenas (1988-92, 1993-2000, 2000-01, 2003-10) Club Banco de Córdoba (1992-93) CB Lucentum Alicante (2000-01) Estudiantes de Olavarría (2001-02) Pallacanestro Varese (2002-03) Juventud Sionista (2010-11)
Awards	Liga Nacional de Básquet champion (6 times) Liga Sudamericana champion (3 times) South American Basketball Championship champion (1996)

Medal record
Men’s basketball
Competitor for  Argentina
South American Basketball Championship
Gold	2001 Valdivia	National Team

Diego Marcelo Osella (born September 4, 1969 in Oncativo, Córdoba) is a retired^[1] basketball player. With the Argentine national team, he competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, finishing in ninth place in the overall-rankings. A year earlier he claimed Argentina's first ever gold medal in men's basketball at the Pan American Games, defeating the United States with the Argentina national basketball team in the final in 1995 Pan American Games. ^[2]

Titles

Clubs

• Liga Nacional de Básquet: 1988, 1990, 1991-92, 1997-98, 1998-99 y 2008-09
• Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes: 1993, 1994
• Campeonato Panamericano de Clubes: 1996
• Liga Sudamericana de Clubes: 1997, 1998, 2004

All club championship were won playing for Atenas.

National team

• Sudamericano Juvenil: 1988
• Pan American Games: 1995
• Sudamericano Mayores: 2001 ^[3]

Personal honours

• Most games played in the Liga Nacional (1.041) ^[4]
• Most rebounds (6.644)
• Most blocks (970)
• 4th all-time top scorer (12.076)
• Number 11 jersey retired by Atenas ^{[5] [6] [7]}

All of those records achieved while playing at the Liga Nacional.

References

1. ^ Diego Osella se retira del básquetbol tras 23 temporadas, La Prensa, 2011-04-19
2. ^ sports-reference Diego Osella profile at Sports-Reference
3. ^ El histórico Diego Osella, La Nación, 2009-05-27
4. ^ Diego Osella jugará su partido 1.000, Cancha Llena, 2009-11-06
5. ^ Atenas retiró el 11 de Diego Osella, Gualeguaychú a Diario webpage
6. ^ Atenas retirará la camiseta 11 en homenaje a Diego Osella, La Mañana de Cordoba website
7. ^ Atenas retira la camiseta 11 de Osella, Día a Día Deportes

External links

• Number 11 retirement video at BasketBlog.com (Spanish)

Persondata
Name	Osella, Diego
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Date of birth	September 4, 1969
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