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Auxilium Pallacanesrto Torino was an Italain basketball club based in Turin, Piedmont. ==History== The club was founded in 1966 under the initiative of Don Gino Borgogno, a salesian priest, who regrouped all the different oratories (Christian youth social clubs) practising basketball in Turin under one organisation, Auxilium Torino, based in the Agnelli oratory. The club was promoted to the fourth-division Serie C in 1970 and moved up to the Serie B in 1972. At the same time another local side, Libertas, based in Asti and sponsored by Saclà, was moving quickly up the divisions, reaching the second division in 1971 and the first division Serie A in 1972. However Saclà Asti wanted to move to a bigger arena and market, transferring to Torino in 1973 which meant the city had two clubs in the national divisions. The clubs would fusion in the 1974 offseason after protracted discussions, with Asti president (Carlo Ercole), coach (Lajos Tóth), players and sponsors transferring to Auxilium (now Saclà Torino) who would play in the newly formed second division Serie A2 whilst nearly all the Auxilium players were sent to Asti to play in the Serie B.〔〔 In their first season in Serie A2, Auxilium were promoted to the Serie A. During the 1975 offseason, the club changed coachs and sponsors, with Martini & Rossi becoming the main sponsor under the Chinamartini brand. The renamed team were relegated domestically but this was compensated by a run to the 1976 Korać Cup final, in which they came back from a first leg deficit of 24 points to eliminate Joventut Badalona by one point in the semifinals, before losing hnourably in the final to Jugoplastika Split. Torino would return to the Serie A in 1979, staying there until 1989 and battling for honours during that decade, with playoff semifinals places in 1982, 1984, 1985 and 1986. After one season in the Serie A2, the club returned to the Serie A in 1990, staying there until 1993. Though the club finished comfortably outside the relegation places in the two Serie A2 seasons it played, the club struggled financially and in July 1995 asked the league to play in the Serie B to reduce its debts, also selling its best players for that purpose.〔 Playing a few years at that level, Auxilium was relegated, on the pitch, to the Serie B2 at the end of the 1998-99 season, following which it merged with Pallacanestro Cerea Collegno in order to ask for a place in the Serie B1. The latter organisation's president, Gianni Garrone, became Auxilium president, with the clubs base and home arena moved to Collegno. The new organisation didn't have more success, on the contrary as it was relegated from the Serie B2 to the Serie C within a year.〔 It played at that level until it was amalgamated into Torino Basket, formed from the merger of two historic Torino clubs Don Bosco Crocetta and Reale Società Ginnastica, in 2007, disappearing on the occasion. The Auxilium brand, that Garrone had given to former coach Gianni Asti when the club shut down, was transferred to Antonio Forni, former co-president of PMS Torino, who then renamed that side Auxilium CUS Torino as it returned to the Serie A for the 2015-16 season.〔 ==Notable players== 1990's * Jay Vincent 1 season: '92-'93 * Kevin Magee 1 season: '91-'92 1980's * Darryl Dawkins 2 seasons: '89-'91 * Alessandro Abbio 6 seasons: '88-'94 * Joe Kopicki 3 seasons: '88-'91 * Giampiero Savio 3 seasons: '85-'88 * Davide Pessina 4 seasons: '84-'88 * Scott May 3 seasons: '83-'86 * Riccardo Morandotti 8 seasons: '82-'90 * Renzo Vecchiato 5 seasons: '82-'87 * Carlo Caglieris 4 seasons: '81-'85 * Ernst Wansley 3 seasons: '80-'83 1970's * Romeo Sacchetti 5 seasons: '79-'84 * Pino Brumatti 6 seasons: '77-'83 * Carlo Della Valle 13 seasons: '76-'81, '83-'87, '89-'93 * John Grochowalsky 4 seasons: '76-'80 * Alberto Merlati 2 seasons: '73-'75 ==Notable coaches== * Lajos Tóth 1 season: '74-'75 * Gianni Asti 6 seasons: '76-'77, '80-'83, '87-'89 * Sandro Gamba 3 seasons: '77-'80 * Dido Guerrieri 6 seasons: '83-'86, '89-'91, '93-'95 * Romeo Sacchetti 5 seasons: '96-'98, '96-'98 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Auxilium Pallacanestro Torino」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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