Olimpia Milano
Sign in to saveAlso known as EA7 Emporio Armani Milano, Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano, Tracer Milano
Lega Basket Italian professional basketball team.
Key facts
- Nickname
- Scarpette Rosse (Little Red Shoes)
- Leagues
- LBA , EuroLeague
- Founded
- 1930 ; 96 years ago ( 1930 )
- History
- Dopolavoro Borletti , (1930–1947) , Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano , (1947–present)
- Arena
- Unipol Forum
- Capacity
- 12,700
- Location
- Assago , Italy
- Team colors
- White, red
- Main sponsor
- EA7 Emporio Armani
- President
- Pantaleo Dell'Orco
- General manager
- Christos Stavropoulos
- Head coach
- Giuseppe Poeta
- Team captain
- Giampaolo Ricci and Shavon Shields
- Ownership
- Armani Foundation
- Championships
- 3 EuroLeagues , 1 Intercontinental Cup , 3 Saporta Cups , 2 Korać Cup , 31 Italian Championships , 8 Italian Cups , 6 Italian Supercups
- Retired numbers
- 4 ( 8 , 11 , 18 , 36 )
- Website
- olimpiamilano.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Italy
- Headquarters
- Milan
- Owned by
- Giorgio Armani
- Location
- Milan
- Sport
- basketball
- League
- Serie A
- Official website
- www.olimpiamilano.com
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- topic's main category
- Category:Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano
- Commons category
- Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano
- home venue
- Forum di Milano
- inception
- 1936-00-00
- head coach
- Giuseppe Poeta
- nickname
- Scarpette Rosse
- kit supplier
- Oakley, Inc.
- social media followers
- 23300
- category for members of a team
- Category:Olimpia Milano players
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Encyclopedic overview
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 referred as "Scarpette Rosse" (Little Red Shoes) because team officials imported red Converse All-Star shoes for players from the United States. The tag line stuck, and the nickname is still used by many fans today.
As per custom in the Italian league, sponsorship has kept the team name changing frequently. From 1930 until 1955, it was called Borletti Milano. From 1956 to 1973, it was renamed Simmenthal. Other famous sponsorship names were Billy, Simac, Tracer, and Philips, in the 1980s. For past club sponsorship names, see the list below.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Olimpia Milano” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.