Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna, known for sponsorship reasons as Segafredo Virtus Bologna, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. The club was founded in 1929, which makes it the oldest club in Italy and one of the oldest one in Europe. Virtus is the second most titled basketball club in Italy after Olimpia Milano, having won 15 Italian national championships, 8 Italian National Cups and 1 Italian Supercup. Moreover, it is one of the most successful teams in Europe, having won two EuroLeagues, one FIBA Saporta Cup and one Basketball Champions League. It currently plays in the Italian first division LBA as well as in the EuroCup.
Roberto Donadoni is an Italian football manager and former midfielder, who is the current head coach of Chinese club Shenzhen F.C..
Giuseppe Baresi is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a defender or as a defensive midfielder. He currently works as a technical assistant at Internazionale. Baresi spent the majority of his 18-year career with Italian club Internazionale, before retiring in 1994 after two seasons with Modena. With Inter, he won two Serie A titles and the UEFA Cup, among other trophies, and also served as the team's captain. At international level, he represented the Italy national football team on 18 occasions between 1979 and 1986, taking part at UEFA Euro 1980, where they finished in fourth place, and at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. His younger brother, Franco Baresi, also a defender, served as captain for cross-city rivals Milan and the Italian national side.
Marco Delvecchio is a retired Italian footballer, who played as a forward. Although he played for several Italian clubs throughout his career, he spent most of it at A.S. Roma, where he is still remembered by the club's fans for his ease in scoring against rivals S.S. Lazio in the Derby della Capitale, and for the contributions he made to the club's league title victory in 2001. At international level, he represented Italy on 22 occasions between 1998 and 2004, scoring 4 goals, taking part at UEFA Euro 2000, reaching the final of the tournament, in which he scored, and at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
Brooklyn Knights were an American soccer club based in New York City. Founded in 1999, the Knights currently field youth teams in the United Soccer Leagues Super-20 League and Super Y-League. The team also previously field a team in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Mid Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The Knights decided to cease fielding a team in the PDL in January 2013.
Rimas Kurtinaitis is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach, and a retired professional basketball player, who was a member of the senior Soviet and Lithuanian national basketball teams during his playing career. He won a gold medal at 1988 Olympics in South Korea. He is currently the head coach for Khimki. At a height of 1.96 m (6'5") tall, during his playing career, he played at the shooting guard position. He is the only non-NBA player to ever participate at the NBA All-Star Weekend's Three-Point Contest, doing so in 1989.
Marco Amelia is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Now a coach, he most recently served as head coach of Serie D club Vastese.
Ettore Messina is an Italian professional basketball coach who is the head coach of Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He has won four EuroLeague championships as a head coach. Messina is regarded as one of the best European basketball coaches of all time, having been named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors in 2008.
Juventus F.C. Youth Sector is youth set-up of Juventus Football Club. The Youth Sector is made up of various squads divided by age groups. All the Youth Sector squads currently train at the club's main training ground, Juventus Center, located at the piedmontese village of Vinovo.
Nikolaos "Nikos" Oikonomou is a retired Greek professional basketball player, and a current professional basketball coach. As a basketball player, he was a 2.08 m tall power forward and four-time FIBA EuroStar selection. Oikonomou also runs Basket4All, a basketball camp for young children.
Jurij "Jure" Zdovc is a Slovenian professional basketball coach and former player. As a player, he was a 1.98 m (6'6") tall point guard, that began his professional playing career with the Slovenian League club Smelt Olimpija.
San Francisco Glens SC, commonly known as SF Glens, is an American soccer club based in San Francisco that was founded in 1961. Their first team currently competes in USL League Two, the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.
Evgeniy Yuryevich Pashutin is a retired Russian professional basketball player and currently the head coach for Lokomotiv Kuban of the Russian VTB United League.
Saša Obradović, also credited as Sasha Obradovic, is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player. He currently serves as a head coach for AS Monaco of the LNB Pro A.
Basketballin Greece erupted with the senior men's Greek national team's win at the EuroBasket 1987 in Athens, which caused a general basketball euphoria in the country. Since then, men's Greek national teams have reached constant international success, leading Greece to join Russia, Serbia, Croatia, Italy, Spain, France, and Lithuania in the circle of European basketball powers. In addition to the national team's triumph in 1987, Greece won a gold medal at the EuroBasket 2005, silver medals at the EuroBasket 1989 and the 2006 FIBA World Cup, as well as the bronze medal at the EuroBasket 2009.
Vincent Florent Antoine Collet is a French former professional basketball player and a current professional basketball coach. Currently, he is the head coach of SIG Strasbourg and the senior men's French national basketball team.
Jim Rilatt is an American soccer coach who was the former head coach of the Portland Timbers U23's in the USL Premier Development League (PDL). In 2010, after an undefeated season in which the U23's won the PDL title, he was named PDL Coach of the Year.
Daniel Francisco Barrera is a Colombian-born, American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Hartford Athletic in the USL Championship.
Euro Youth Football Association is a soccer team based in Brooklyn, New York that plays in USL League Two. The club is a soccer organization aimed at the elite development of players, offering them the opportunity to play at the highest level, either domestically or internationally.
Marco Antonio Bustos is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays for Pacific FC as an attacking midfielder.
