Marco_Spissu
Marco Spissu
Italian basketball player
Marco Spissu (born February 5, 1995) is an Italian professional basketball player for Reyer Venezia Mestre of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). Spissu usually plays as point guard.
Spissu in the 2019 FIBA Europe Cup Finals | |
| No. 0 – Reyer Venezia Mestre | |
|---|---|
| Position | Point guard |
| League | LBA |
| Personal information | |
| Born | (1995-02-05) February 5, 1995 (age 29) Sassari, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Listed height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Listed weight | 80 kg (176 lb) |
| Career information | |
| Playing career | 2010–present |
| Career history | |
| 2010–2011 | Torres |
| 2011–2021 | Dinamo Sassari |
| 2012–2013 | →Sant'Orsola |
| 2013–2014 | →CUS Bari |
| 2014–2015 | →Casalpusterlengo |
| 2015 | →Viola Reggio Calabria |
| 2015–2016 | →Derthona |
| 2016–2017 | →Virtus Bologna |
| 2021–2022 | UNICS Kazan |
| 2022–present | Reyer Venezia Mestre |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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In July 2016, Spissu was sent on loan to Virtus Bologna of the Serie A2 Basket.[1] With Bologna, he won the Italian LNP Cup and he was named the LNP Cup Finals MVP.[2]
After 11 years with Dinamo Sassari, from 2011, Spissu moved in Spain to Unicaja Málaga, signing a two years contract.[3][4] On August 12, 2021, Unicaja Malaga voids Marco Spissu’s contract after Italian player fails physicals.[5] The Italian Basketball Federation intervened in his favour by stating that his physical conditions were adequate and no injuries has compromised his condition, such that he was called for the Tokyo Olympics.[6] Standing to Gazzetta dello sport, the Italian sport newspaper, the Malaga management team had second thoughts about the deal and used his physical condition as a justification for voiding the contract.[7]
In the end, on August 19, 2021, Spissu signed with the Russian team UNICS Kazan of the VTB United League and newly promoted to the EuroLeague.[8]
He left the team in early 2022 due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[9][10]
On July 20, 2022, he has signed with Reyer Venezia Mestre of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA).[11]
- Virtus Bologna
- Dinamo Sassari
- "Turkish Airlines Cup, la Virtus vince la Coppa Italia" [Turkish Airlines Cup, Virtus wins the Italian Cup]. sportando.com (in Italian). 5 March 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- "La Dinamo saluta e ringrazia Marco Spissu". dinamobasket.com (in Italian). 28 July 2021.
- "Spissu, new playmaker for Unicaja". unicajabaloncesto.com. 28 July 2021.
- Carchia, Emiliano (August 12, 2021). "Unicaja Malaga voids Marco Spissu's contract after Italian player fails physicals". Sportando. Retrieved August 13, 2021.
- "Marco Spissu. Una nota della Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro". fip.it (in Italian). 13 August 2021.
- "Spissu e i test falliti con Malaga. La Fip: "Marco ha l'idoneità"" (in Italian). No. 14 August 2021. Gazzetta Dello Sport. RCS. p. 35.
- "Marco Spissu Is A New UNICS Playmaker". unics.ru. 19 August 2021.
- "Unics Kazan reportedly suing Jarrell Brantley for $250,000". Eurohoops. March 4, 2022.
- Maggi, Alessandro (July 20, 2022). "Marco Spissu officially signs with Reyer Venezia". Sportando. Retrieved August 7, 2022.