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Diego Osella

Diego Osella, wearing the Atenas de Córdoba jersey
Personal information
Born	(1969-09-04) September 4, 1969 (age 55) Oncativo, Córdoba, Argentina
Listed height	2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)
Career information
Playing career	1988–2011
Position	Center
Career history
1988–1992	Atenas de Córdoba
1992–1993	Club Banco de Córdoba
1993–2000	Atenas de Córdoba
2000–2001	Lucentum Alicante
2001	Atenas de Córdoba
2001–2002	Estudiantes de Olavarría
2002–2003	Pallacanestro Varese
2003–2010	Atenas de Córdoba
2010–2011	Juventud Sionista
Career highlights and awards
Pan American Club Championship champion (1996) 3× FIBA South American League champion (1997, 1998, 2004) 2× South American Club Championship champion (1993, 1994) 6× Argentine League champion (1988, 1990, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2009) Argentine League Finals MVP (1999) NO. 11 jersey retired by Atenas
Medals Men's Basketball Representing  Argentina Pan American Games 1995 Mar del Plata FIBA South American Championship 2001 Valdivia

Diego Marcelo Osella (born September 4, 1969) is a retired Argentine professional basketball player.

Professional career

Osella was the Argentine League Finals MVP in 1999.

National team career

With the senior Argentine national basketball team, Osella competed at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, where his team finished in ninth place in the overall-rankings. A year earlier, he helped claim Argentina's first ever gold medal in senior men's basketball, at the 1995 Pan American Games, after defeating the United States in the final, in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Titles

Clubs

• Liga Nacional de Básquet: 1988, 1990, 1991–92, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2008–09
• Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes: 1993, 1994
• Campeonato Panamericano de Clubes: 1996
• Liga Sudamericana de Clubes: 1997, 1998, 2004

All club championships were won playing with Atenas.

National team

• Sudamericano Juvenil: 1988
• Pan American Games gold medal: 1995
• Sudamericano Mayores gold medal: 2001

Personal honours

• Liga Nacional de Básquet Statistical Leaders:
  • Most games played in the Liga Nacional at the time he retired (1,096)
  • Most rebounds in the Liga Nacional (6,804).
  • Most blocks in the Liga Nacional (989).
  • 5th all-time top scorer in the Liga Nacional (12,358).
• Number 11 jersey retired by Atenas: (2011)

References

1. Diego Osella se retira del básquetbol tras 23 temporadas, La Prensa, 2011-04-19
2. sports-reference Diego Osella profile at Sports-Reference
3. El histórico Diego Osella, La Nación, 2009-05-27
4. Diego Osella jugará su partido 1.000, Cancha Llena, 2009-11-06
5. Atenas retiró el 11 de Diego Osella Archived 2012-04-25 at the Wayback Machine, Gualeguaychú a Diario webpage
6. Atenas retirará la camiseta 11 en homenaje a Diego Osella Archived 2012-04-01 at the Wayback Machine, La Mañana de Cordoba website
7. Atenas retira la camiseta 11 de Osella, Día a Día Deportes

External links

• Number 11 retirement video at BasketBlog.com (in Spanish)

v t e Argentina squad – 1995 Pan American Games Gold Medal
Aragona Cocha De la Fuente Espil Maggi Milanesio Oberto Osella Pérez Racca Villar Wolkowyski Coach: Vecchio

• 1969 births
• Living people
• 1998 FIBA World Championship players
• Argentine expatriate basketball people in Spain
• Argentine men's basketball players
• 1990 FIBA World Championship players
• Atenas basketball players
• Basketball players at the 1995 Pan American Games
• Basketball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Basketball players with retired numbers
• CB Lucentum Alicante players
• Centers (basketball)
• Estudiantes de Olavarría basketball players
• Juventud Sionista basketball players
• Liga ACB players
• Olympic basketball players for Argentina
• Pallacanestro Varese players
• Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina
• Pan American Games medalists in basketball
• Sportspeople from Córdoba Province, Argentina
• Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
• 1994 FIBA World Championship players
• 20th-century Argentine sportsmen