Andrés Pablo Forray (born March 20, 1986), also called Toto Forray, is an Argentine-born naturalized Italian professional

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player for

Aquila Basket Trento Aquila Basket Trento, also known for sponsorship reasons as Dolomiti Energia Trento, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Trento, Trent, Trentino. It was founded in 1995 as an amalgamation of two local clubs, going from the amateur ...

of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroCup. He is a

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Professional career

Andrés Forray is in

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since 2003, but he grew up with ''Club Banco Provincia di Buenos Aires'' youth team. His first team in Italy was

Pallacanestro Messina Pallacanestro Messina was an Italian professional basketball team based in Messina, Sicily. History Established in 1976, the club was admitted to the first division Serie A for the 2003-04 season after Virtus Bologna was excluded for financial ir ...

from the 2003-04 season already in the first and highest-tier level of the Italian league pyramid. He had the opportunity to play with popular and great players like

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. Forray later played with

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(one season) and JesoloSandonà Basket (two seasons) in

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until 2008, when

Fulgor Libertas Forlì Fulgor Libertas Forlì was an Italian professional basketball team based in Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The club ceased operating in January 2015 due to financial problems. History Fulgor Forlì was founded in 1949 by Stefano Cozzi. It reache ...

club offered him a three years contract from 2008 to 2011. In January 2011 he went to

. With the

Trento Trento ( or ; Ladin and lmo, Trent; german: Trient ; cim, Tria; , ), also anglicized as Trent, is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th centu ...

based club he achieved the promotion to Serie A2 in 2012, the championship of the Italian LNP Cup in 2013 and the promotion to the highest-tier level of the Italian basketball league sysyem. Since the 2014–15 season he played in

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. In August 2016 Toto Forray renews the contract with Trento for the next 3 years. In 2016 Forray became the new Aquila Basket Trento captain as

Davide Pascolo Davide Pascolo (born 14 December 1990) is an Italian professional basketball player for Assigeco Piacenza of the Italian Serie A2, second tier national league, on a loan contract from Aquila Basket Trento. At a height of 2.03 m (6'8") tall, his ...

left the club June of the same year.

Honours and titles

Team

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winner (2): 2012, 2014 * Italian LNP Cup winner (1): 2013

References

External links

Lega Basket Serie A profile
Retrieved 14 December 2016
Serie A2 Basket profile
Retrieved 14 December 2016 {{DEFAULTSORT:Forray, Andrés Pablo 1986 births Living people Aquila Basket Trento players Argentine expatriate basketball people in Italy Argentine men's basketball players Fulgor Libertas Forlì players Italian men's basketball players Lega Basket Serie A players Point guards Basketball players from Buenos Aires