Daniel Lowell Peterson (born January 9, 1936) is a former American

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. He resigned from his most recent position as the head coach of

Olimpia Milano Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano, commonly known as Olimpia Milano or as EA7 Emporio Armani Milan after its title sponsor, is an LBA Italian professional basketball team, based in Milan, Italy. Its colors are white and red, and the team is sometimes ...

in the Italian

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after the team was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 2011 Italian league playoffs. The team then announced that he would assume another role with the club. He is nicknamed "The Coach" for his legacy in Italian basketball.

Biography

Peterson went to

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. He received his undergraduate degree from

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in Evanston and a master's degree from the

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. He served as assistant coach for NAIA school McKendree College from 1962 to 1963. From 1963 to 1964 he served as freshmen coach at

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. After MSU, for one season, he was plebe coach at the

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. The next year, at the age of 30, he became head coach at the

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. In five years there, he assembled a record of 69 wins and 49 losses. In 1971, he went abroad, acting as head coach of the

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until 1973. Peterson took his Chilean team on a grueling tour of the United States in 1972. From 1973–1978, he coached

Virtus Bologna Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna, known for sponsorship reasons as Virtus Segafredo 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 ...

in the Italian

, winning the 1974 "Coppa Italia" and, in 1976, the Italian League title. In 1978, he was hired as head coach of

, where he won four Italian League titles (1982, 1985, 1986, 1987), two more Italian Cups (1986, 1987), a

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(1985), and one European Champions Cup (EuroLeague) title, which is the highest title in Europe for pro

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basketball. In 1987, he retired after coaching in Italy for 24 years, but he resumed coaching on January 3, 2011, with

. He still holds records for a coach in the Italian League playoffs, with 11 Final Four appearances in 11 years (after which a

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format was introduced), 9 finals, 4 titles, 74 games coached, and 51 games won. On January 3, 2011, he became the new head coach of

, after the dismissal of Piero Bucchi. He left in June, succeeded by

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Commentator

After his retirement, he became a popular

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(basket and

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) for many Italian television channels.

Awards

He received the Coach of the Year award for Europe from the WABC and the Coach of the Year for Italy twice. Following his retirement from coaching, he was inducted into the Illinois Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995. In 2007, Peterson was named a Distinguished Alumnus of

. In 2008, he was named one of the 50 most influential European club basketball personalities over the previous half-century. A poll said that he is the foreigner with the sexiest voice in Italy.Dan Peterson spinge la nuova Carife

References

External links

Italian League Coach Profile
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Biography

Commentator

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