Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna 103, commonly known as Fortitudo Bologna and currently known as Fortitudo Flats Service Bologna for sponsorship reasons, is a basketball club based in Bologna, Italy and currently plays in the second division.
Pierluigi Collina is an Italian former football referee. He was named "The World's Best Referee" by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics six consecutive times from 1998 to 2003.
The Italy national baseball team represents Italy in international baseball competitions. The Italian national team was ranked 16th in the world as of 2022. The team is managed by Mike Piazza, a former New York Mets player and Major League Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.
The Italian Baseball League, officially known as the Serie A, is the top-level baseball league in Italy. Founded in 1948, it is governed by the Italian Baseball & Softball Federation (FIBS), which has its headquarters in Rome.
Fortitudo Baseball 1953, commonly referred to as Fortitudo Bologna, also known as Longbridge 2000 Bologna or UnipolSai Bologna for sponsorship reasons, is a baseball club based in Bologna that competes in Serie A1, Italy's professional baseball league.
Cody Daniel Cillo is an Italian-American former right-handed sinker-ball/slider pitcher most noted for his time with Fortitudo Baseball Bologna of Federazione Italiana Baseball Sotball Serie A1. He also pitched for the Italian national baseball team that competed in the 2009 World Baseball Classic. He is 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tall, and weighs 195 lbs.
Robin Clemens Benzing is a German professional basketball player for Giessen 46ers of the Basketball Bundesliga. He is also a member of the Germany national basketball team. Standing at 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), he plays at the small forward position.
Luca Panerati is an Italian professional baseball pitcher. He debuted with the Italian national baseball team in 2007 and in minor league baseball in 2008.
Thyago Vieira Lucio is a Brazilian professional baseball pitcher in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, and Baltimore Orioles, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants.
Nicholas John Pugliese is a professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played for the Italy national baseball team in the 2011 Baseball World Cup, the 2013 World Baseball Classic, and the 2019 European Baseball Championship.
Alessandro Vaglio is an Italian professional baseball infielder, for the Fortitudo Baseball Bologna in the Italian Baseball League.
Luis Eduardo Lugo Lareschi is a Venezuelan-born Italian former professional baseball pitcher. Lugo was signed by the Cleveland Indians as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played for Team Italy in the 2019 European Baseball Championship.
Murilo Cerqueira Paim is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a central defender or defensive midfielder for Brazilian club Palmeiras.
Kassius Robertson is a Canadian professional basketball player for Joventut Badalona of the Spanish Liga ACB. He competed in college basketball for Canisius and Missouri.
The 2019–20 LBA season was the 98th season of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), the men's top tier professional basketball division of the Italian basketball league system. The regular season started on September 25, 2019, and was scheduled to finish on April 26, 2020. However, the season was cancelled prematurely because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Robel Estiwal García Rodriguez is an Italian-Dominican professional baseball infielder for the Unipolsai Fortitudo Bologna of the Italian Baseball League (IBL). He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs and in the KBO League for the LG Twins.
The 2019–20 season is Fortitudo Bologna's 88th in existence and the new club's 1st season in the Lega Basket Serie A after the promotion in the top flight of Italian basketball.
Luis Humberto González is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the Baltimore Orioles organization. He has previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chunichi Dragons. He has also played in the minor leagues for the Philadelphia Phillies, Orioles and San Francisco Giants.
Gabriele Procida is an Italian professional basketball player for Alba Berlin of the German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and the EuroLeague.
Jackson Diego Ibraim Fagundes, known as Dieguinho or just Diego, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Goiás. A versatile player, he primarily plays as either a right back or a defensive midfielder, but can also play as an attacking midfielder or a forward.
