Luciano Capicchioni

Luciano Capicchioni (14 July 1946 – 2 March 2021) was a Sammarinese-American sports agent.[1] He was known by the nickname "Lucky".[2]

Biography

As a teenager, Capicchioni moved to the United States with his father and two sisters. In 1965, he founded the cycling team at Michigan State University. He received a BA from Michigan State and a doctorate from the University of Bologna.[3]Upon his return to Europe, he founded the San Marino Basketball Federation. In 1969, he founded the Federazione Sammarinese Baseball-Softball, of which he was the President until 1972.[4] From 1979 to 1984, he served as Vice-President of the Sammarinese National Olympic Committee, a position in which he oversaw the Olympic Games in Los Angeles and Moscow.[5] In 1980, he was the San Marino Olympic Delegation in Moscow.[2]

In 1986, Capicchioni founded the agency Interperformances, which represented professional athletes worldwide, including Toni Kukoč,[6] Predrag Danilović,[7] Arvydas Sabonis,[8] Peja Stojaković,[9] Zydrunas Ilgauskas, and Manu Ginóbili.[10] His main American partner in representing players in the NBA was Herb Rudoy.[11] [12]He also represented soccer, American football, volleyball, and baseball players.[13] His son, Manuel, joined the company in 1998.[14]

In 2002, Capicchioni became owner of the basketball club Basket Rimini Crabs of the Italian Legadue Basket. He left the team in 2006 but made a significant monetary contribution in March 2010, allowing the financially-troubled club to compete for the remainder of the season.[15] Throughout the next few years, he helped to remedy the club's financial struggles, which resulted in its survival.[16][17] In 2018, he restructured the club maintaining only the youth team,[18] but then sold it entirely to Rinascita Basket Rimini.

Luciano Capicchioni died on 2 March 2021 in San Marino at the age of 74.[19]

References

  1. ↑ "Luciano Capicchioni morto, addio al manager delle stelle del basket". Il Resto del Carlino (in Italian). 2 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Luciano Capicchioni Founder". Interperformances.
  3. ↑ "Luciano Capicchioni Founder". Interperformances.
  4. ↑ "Luciano "Lucky" Capicchioni: manager sammarinese di Kukoc, Sabonis e Danilovic". Rtv San Marino (in Italian). 2 March 2021.
  5. ↑ "Luciano Capicchioni". Interperformances.
  6. ↑ "Agent Wants Major Bulls Role for Kukoc". Chicago Tribune. 25 May 1993.
  7. ↑ "Esclusiva SmRtv - Sasha Danilovic: "Luciano Capicchioni era uno dei manager migliori, è stato importante per me"". Rtv San Marino (in Italian). 3 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "Mirė buvęs A. Sabonio, Ž. Ilgausko ir kitų Lietuvos krepšinio garsenybių agentas (6)". lrytas.lt (in Lithuanian). 2 March 2021.
  9. ↑ "Peja Stojakovic, la storia del cecchino dell'Est". Basket Universo (in Italian). 28 April 2013.
  10. ↑ "Manu Ginobili's agents praise the future Hall of Famer upon retirement". Clutch Points. 27 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "Rudoy". Hoops Agents.
  12. ↑ "Herb Rudoy Founder and Senior Advisor". Interperformances.
  13. ↑ "Who We Are". Interperformances.
  14. ↑ "Manuel Capicchioni". Interperformances.
  15. ↑ "Il re dei procuratori salva Rimini". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 19 March 2010.
  16. ↑ "Basket. I Crabs sono ufficialmente iscritti in B2". News Rimini (in Italian). 22 July 2011.
  17. ↑ "Basket, il saluto di Capicchioni alla Rimini dei canestri". Corriere Romagna (in Italian). 30 July 2020.
  18. ↑ "Capicchioni e Rinascita hanno trovato l'accordo: a Rimini una sola squadra". Corriere Romagna (in Italian). 4 September 2018.
  19. ↑ "Addio "Lucky" Capicchioni, l'agente che portò in Nba Kukoc e Ginobili". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 3 March 2021.
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