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Medal record
Cesare Rubini Cesare Rubini
Competitor for  Italy
Men's Water Polo
Gold	1948 London	National Team
Bronze	1952 Helsinki	National Team
Men’s Basketball
FIBA EuroBasket
Silver	1946 Switzerland	National Team

Cesare Rubini (2 November 1923 – 8 February 2011) was an Italian basketball player and coach, and water polo player. One of the greatest European basketball coaches of all time, Rubini was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1994, the first, and to this day, one of the few Italian basketball figures to receive such an honour, together with Dino Meneghin and Sandro Gamba. He has also been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and into the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame.

Career[link]

Rubini started to play basketball for his high school team in his native Trieste, where he graduated in 1941. The same year he began to play for Olimpia Milano, the most prestigious Italian League basketball club at that time. He however had a long-lived passion for water polo: this led him later to become one of the rare world sportsmen to play at the highest level in two different team sports.

In 1946, he won a silver medal with the Italian national basketball team at the EuroBasket 1946, held in Geneva. The following year, he also won a silver medal at the European Championships, but this time with the Italian national water polo team. In the meantime he had assumed the role of player-coach of Olimpia Milano: in 1948, however, he was called by the national teams of both sports. Rubini chose water polo, and won a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games in London, beating the Netherlands in the final. With Rubini as a full-time player, Italy could boast what was to be called the "Golden Settebello", one of the most valuable water polo teams ever, which also won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics and at the Turin European Championship of 1954. In both the events, Italy was behind traditional rivals of Yugoslavia and Hungary.

Rubini, also as player-coach, won 6 national titles in water polo with Canottieri Olona of Milan, Rari Nantes of Naples and Camogli teams. He totaled 84 caps for the Italian national team, 42 of which were as a captain.

As a basketball player, Rubini won 5 national titles in a row, from 1950 to 1954. After 1956, he devoted only to the coach role, winning 10 national titles with Olimpia. In these years, he set an unparalleled record of 322 victories and 28 defeats. As coach of the Milan team, Rubini totaled 488 victories, including the European Champions Cup (Euroleague) in 1966, and two European Winner's Cups in 1971 and 1972: these were the first international victories of Italian basketball clubs.

As the manager of the Italian national basketball team, Rubini took also part in the first international victories of Italy: these include the silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympic Games. At the EuroBasket, Italy was first in 1983 at Nantes, second in 1991 at Rome, and third in 1985 at Stuttgart.

Rubini was involved with his beloved sports until his death: he promoted water polo formation for young athletes, and was Honorary President of Olimpia Milano.

External links[link]

• Profile Basketball Hall of Fame

Dan Peterson

Personal information
Born	(1936-01-09) January 9, 1936 (age 76) Evanston, Illinois
Nationality	American
High school	Evanston Township High School (ETHS)
Career information
College	Northwestern University
Coaching career	1962–2011
Career history
As coach:
1962–1964	McKendree College (assistant)
1963–1966	Michigan State University (assistant)
1965–1967	United States Naval Academy (assistant)
1966–1972	University of Delaware (69-49)
1971–1974	Chile national basketball team
1973–1979	Virtus Bologna (84-34)
1978–1988	Olimpia Milano (197-69)
2011–2012	Olimpia Milano (12-6)
Career highlights and awards
1× Euroleague Champion (1987) 6× Italian title (1976,1982,1985,1986,1987) 1× Korać Cup (1985) 3× Italian Basketball Cup (1974,1986,1987) 1× European Coach of the Year (1987) 2× Italian Coach of the Year (1986,1987) Illinois Basketball Hall of Fame (1995) Distinguished Alumnus of Evanston Township High School (2007)

Daniel Lowell "Dan" Peterson (born January 9, 1936) is a former American professional basketball head coach. He resigned his most recent position as the head coach of Olimpia Milano in the Italian Serie A1 after the team was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 2011 Italian league playoffs. The team has announced that he will assume another role (not yet announced) with the club. He is nicknamed "The Coach" for his legacy in Italian basketball.

Education[link]

Peterson went to Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Ill. He received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in Evanston and a masters degree from the University of Michigan.

Early career[link]

He served as assistant coach for NAIA school McKendree College from 1962 to 1963. From 1963 to 1964 he served as freshmen coach at Michigan State. After MSU, for one season, he was plebe coach at the United States Naval Academy. The next year, at the age of 30, he became head coach at the University of Delaware. In five years there, he assembled a record of 69 wins and 49 losses.^[1]

Abroad[link]

In 1971, he went abroad, acting as head coach of the Chilean national team until 1973. Peterson took his Chilean team on a grueling tour of the United States in 1972.^[2] From 1973–1978, he coached Virtus Bologna in the Italian Serie A1, winning the 1974 "Coppa Italia" and, in 1976, the Italian league title. In 1978, he was hired as head coach of Olimpia Milano where he won four Italian titles (1982, 1985, 1986, 1987), two more "Coppa Italia" awards (1986, 1987), a Korać Cup (1985) and one European Champions Cup (Euroleague), the highest title in Europe for basketball.^[3]

Retirement[link]

In 1987, he retired after coaching in Italy for 14 years, but he resumed coaching on January 3, 2011, with Olimpia Milano. He still holds records for a coach in Italian playoffs with 11 Final Four appearances in 11 years (after which a playoff format was introduced), 9 finals, 4 titles, 74 games coached, and 51 games won.

Comeback[link]

On January 3, 2011 he became the new head coach of Olimpia Milano after the dismissal of Piero Bucchi. He left in june, suceeded by Sergio Scariolo

Commentator[link]