Aldo Ossola
Aldo Ossola is an Italian former basketball player. At a height of 1.92 m, he was a point guard with a great ability to set the offensive rhythm and game tempo for his team. He is a member of the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame, inducted in 2008. His older brother, Luigi Ossola, played football professionally, in the Serie A, and another older half-brother Franco Ossola, was one of the highest all-time scorers of the Torino F.C..
On 3 February 2008, Ossola was chosen as one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors, over the previous half-century, by the EuroLeague Basketball Experts Committee.Club playing career
Ossola won, with the great Italian League club Ignis Varese of the 1970s, 5 FIBA European Champions Cup titles, and he also played in ten consecutive EuroLeague Finals, a record that is almost impossible to be broken.Ossola was a member of the senior Italian national basketball team. With Italy's senior national team, he played at the EuroBasket 1969.Awards and accomplishments