8 February 2011(2011-02-08) (aged 87) Milan, Italy
Senior clubs
Years
Team
1947–1948
Società Canottieri Olona
1949–1951
Rari Nantes Napoli
1952–1956
Rari Nantes Camogli
Medal record
Men's Water Polo
Representing Italy
Olympics
1948 London
National Team
1952 Helsinki
National Team
European Water Polo Championship
1947 Monaco
National Team
1954 Italy
National Team
Cesare Rubini
Rubini (with the basketball in his hands).
Personal information
Born
(1923-11-02)2 November 1923 Trieste, Italy
Died
8 February 2011(2011-02-08) (aged 87)
Nationality
Italian
Career information
Playing career
1948–1957
Coaching career
1957–1973
Career history
As player:
1948–1957
Olimpia Milano
As coach:
1957–1973
Olimpia Milano
Career highlights and awards
As player:
6× Italian League champion (1950–1954, 1957)
As head coach:
EuroLeague champion (1966)
2× FIBA Saporta Cup champion (1971, 1972)
9× Italian League champion (1958–1960, 1962, 1963, 1965–1967, 1972)
Italian Cup winner (1972)
FIBA Order of Merit (2002)
Italian Basketball Hall of Fame (2006)
Basketball Hall of Fame as coach
FIBA Hall of Fame as coach
Medals
Men's Basketball
Representing Italy
FIBA EuroBasket
1946 Switzerland
Cesare Rubini (2 November 1923 – 8 February 2011) was an Italian professional basketball player and coach, and a water polo player. He was considered to be one of the greatest European basketball coaches of all time, Rubini was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1994, making him the first, and to this day, just one of three Italian basketball figures to receive such an honour, alongside Dino Meneghin and Sandro Gamba. He was also inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2000.
In 2002, he was awarded the FIBA Order of Merit. He was inducted into the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame, in 2006. He was also inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame, in 2013.
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first taste of international success came over in the mid-1990s under coach Cesare Maldini with Italy's under-21 side, winning two consecutive UEFA European...
excluded from Cesare Maldini's Italian Olympic squad in 1996. After a lengthy absence from the national team, Baggio was called up by Cesare Maldini for...
reaction to Stirling Moss' retirement or the close attentions of the lapped Cesare Perdisa behind. Whatever distracted him, he approached the chicane too quickly...
football player and manager. Licio Rossetti (1925–1993), football player. CesareRubini (1923–2011), water polo player. Matteo Scozzarella (born 1988), football...
2015. Still alive. FIDAL Hall of Fame Italian Football Hall of Fame CesareRubini was a legend of two different sports: basketball and water polo. "Inaugurata...
second Italian player to enter into the Basketball Hall of Fame, after CesareRubini, who served Olimpia Milano, both as player and coach between the 1940s...
championships out of the 18 played up to 1966–67. The team, coached by CesareRubini, marked an unrepeatable dominance on the Italian league thanks to players...