Stefano Mancinelli (born March 17, 1983) is a retired Italian professional
basketball
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player. He also represented the
Italian national basketball team
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Italy has qualified for 38 EuroBasket tournaments, winning two gold medals ( ...
. Standing at , he played at the
small forward
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and
power forward
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positions.
Professional career
Mancinelli joined
Fortitudo Bologna
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H ...
in 2000, and he made his debut in the
Italian League on April 14, 2001, against
Viola Reggio Calabria
Viola Reggio Calabria is an Italian professional basketball club based in Reggio Calabria, Calabria.
At its heyday the club was renowned for discovering talented players who would go on to play at the highest level, for example five former player ...
. He was the
captain
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of Fortitudo from 2005 to 2009, following the team's previous captain,
Gianluca Basile. With Fortitudo, he lost the final game of the
EuroLeague
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in the
Euroleague 2003–04 season, when they were defeated by
Maccabi Tel Aviv
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. However, he won the
Italian Championship with Fortitudo in 2005 against
Olimpia Milano
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. He also won the
Italian SuperCup in 2005. In 2007, Mancinelli participated with the
Portland Trail Blazers
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summer squad during the
NBA Summer League
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in
Las Vegas, Nevada
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. In August 2009, he joined
Olimpia Milano
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. In the summer of 2012, Mancinelli and Olimpia parted ways and he became free agent. In January 2013, he signed with
Pallacanestro Cantù
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for the rest of the season. In August 2013, he signed a three-year deal with
PMS Torino. In July 2016, he returned to Fortitudo Bologna. Mancinelli played at Bologna until 2022.
Italian national team
Mancinelli is also a member of the senior
Italian national team. With Italy's junior national team, he reached the fourth place at the 2000
FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship
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, and he also participated with Italy's junior national team at the 2002
FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship
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. He won the bronze medal at the 2001
Mediterranean Games
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.
In 2005, Italian senior national team coach
Carlo Recalcati, added him to Italy's roster for the
2005 FIBA European Championship, and the following year he was a member of the Italian roster at the
2006 FIBA World Championship
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. He also played at the
2007 FIBA European Championship.
During a friendly match between Canada and Italy on August 1, 2009, Mancinelli elbowed
Canadian national team player
Aaron Doornekamp in the back of the head. Blindsided, Doornekamp was knocked to the ground and Mancinelli lurched towards him, sparking a bench clearing brawl between both teams. No more punches were thrown but the incident resulted in a lengthy delay. A video of the incident shows that Italian players
Andrea Bargnani
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and
Marco Belinelli
Marco Stefano Belinelli (; born 25 March 1986) is an Italian professional basketball player and the captain (sports), team captain for Virtus Bologna of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He was selected 18th overall in the 2007 NB ...
tried to break up the skirmish. Doornekamp did not sustain any serious injuries and Italian team captain
Matteo Soragna
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He was part of the Italian national team that won a silver ...
apologized after the game: "I am sorry that it happened. The team has responded as one and that is a positive, although we did not want the incident to happen."
References
External links
Euroleague.net ProfileItalian League Profile
Draftexpress.com Profile
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1983 births
Living people
2006 FIBA World Championship players
Auxilium Pallacanestro Torino players
Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna players
Italian men's basketball players
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games medalists in basketball
Olimpia Milano players
Pallacanestro Cantù players
Power forwards
Small forwards
Sportspeople from Chieti
21st-century Italian sportsmen