Unione Cestistica Casalpusterlengo, since 2016 known as Assigeco Piacenza, is an Italian professional
basketball
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club based in
Codogno
Codogno (; Lodigiano: ) is a town and ''comune'' of 15,868 inhabitants in the province of Lodi, Lombardy, northern Italy. It is the main center of the plain known as Basso Lodigiano, which has about 90,000 inhabitants. It received the honorary tit ...
,
Lombardy
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.
History
The team was founded in 1977 by Franco Curioni, who remains its president to this day. In 2004 Casalpusterlengo reached the third division
Serie B1. Five years later the team was promoted to the professional
LegaDue
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, playing two seasons before withdrawing in 2011 due to financial difficulties.
Arena
In order to comply with the league's capacity regulations during the years it played in LegaDue, its home arena was PalaCastellotti in
Lodi.
Notable players
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Mike Hall 1 season: 2019–20
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Ruben Boykin 1 season: 2010–11
* Paul Marigney
1 season: 2010–11
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Peter Ezugwu 1 season: 2010–11
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Marcus Hatten
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1 season: 2009–10
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1 season: 2009–10
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Mario Boni 2 seasons: 2006–08
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Pietro Aradori 3 seasons: 2003–06
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Danilo Gallinari
Danilo Gallinari (; born 8 August 1988) is an Italian professional basketball player for the Vaqueros de Bayamón of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). After spending his first four years as a professional in his native Italy, Gallinari was ...
1 season: 2004–05
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Klaudio Ndoja
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2 seasons: 2003–05
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Vittorio Gallinari
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He was born in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano. During his pl ...
1 season: 1995–96
External links
Official website(in Italian)
Basketball teams established in 1977
Basketball teams in Lombardy
1977 establishments in Italy
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