Diego Ciorciari

Diego Ciorciari
No. 9 Gimnasia y Esgrima (CR)
Position Point guard
League Liga Nacional de Básquet
Personal information
Born (1980-03-02) March 2, 1980
Santa Fe, Argentina
Nationality Argentine / Italian
Listed height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Career information
Playing career 1998–present
Career history
1998–2002 Ferro Carril Oeste (Argentina)
2002 Arkadia Traiskirchen (Austria)
2002 De Vizia Avellino (Italy)
2002–2003 Vip Rimini (Italy)
2003–2004 CAI Zaragoza (Spain)
2004–2005 Bilbao Basket (Spain)
2005–2006 Calpe Aguas (Spain)
2006–2007 Leche Río Breogán (Spain)
2007–2009 Melilla Baloncesto (Spain)
2009–2011 Menorca Bàsquet (Spain)
2011 Otto Caserta (Italy)
2012–present Gimnasia y Esgrima (CR) (Argentina)
Career highlights and awards

Diego Andrés Ciorciari (born 2 March 1980) is an Argentine professional basketball player who plays point guard with Gimnasia Indalo of Argentina's Liga Nacional de Básquet.

Early years

He began to play basketball in an amateur club called Rivadavia Juniors, in his home city, Santa Fe.[1]

Pro career

Ciorciari first started to play as a professional in Argentina in 1997, when he was only 17, playing for Ferro Carril Oeste with Luis Scola and Federico Kammerichs among others. Because he was the youngest player of the team, the speaker nicknamed him El 'pichón' Ciorciari, being pichón a baby bird.[1] Despite his height, in 2001 he won the LNB Slam Dunk Contest against Walter Herrmann, after having lost the final the year before.[1]

Afterwards he moved to Austria, where he played only for two months before he moved to Italy, where he played in Lega and Lega-2. In 2003 he signed for CAI Zaragoza, of Spanish second division LEB, and on 4 November 2004 he made his debut in ACB with Bilbao Basket. From 2005 to 2010 he played in the LEB league in different teams, and on May 2010 he won the LEB Play-off with Menorca basket and promoted to ACB.[2]

Unfortunately, his team relegated to the second division and he decided to leave the LEB after 7 seasons in Spain. In 2011, Diego moved to Italy and started playing for Pepsi Caserta but at the end of the year he returned to Argentina after almost ten years abroad and joined Club Gimnasia y Esgrima (Comodoro Rivadavia)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "En la cabeza de... Diego Ciorciari" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 2010-11-11. Retrieved 2010-11-11.
  2. "ViveMenorca Back In ACB Next Season". basketballinspain.com. Retrieved 2010-11-11.

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