Pierluigi Marzorati
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Pierluigi Marzorati (born September 12, 1952) is a basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Yugoslavia turned out to be too strong for Italy in the final: the match ended 77-86. He eventually played 278 matches for Italian national team scoring 2209 points.
He was one of the key players of the Pallacanestro Cantù team, winning 2 Italian titles, 2 European Basketball Champions' Cups, 4 Korac Cups, 2 Intercontinental Cups and 4 Cup Winners' Cups.
He first announced his retirement in 1991 after playing his whole career for Pallacanestro Cantù.
In July 2006 he decided, aged 54, to come back to top class competitions with Pallacanestro Cantù for the 70th anniversary of the team. On October 6, 2006, he finally appeared in an official match for Cantù, playing two minutes in Serie A league match against national champions Benetton Treviso, then won 70-69. This way, he became the first basketball player in history to have played official matches in five different decades, as well as the oldest professional basketball player to have ever taken part in an official match.
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