Marco Ceron

Marco Ceron
No. 17 – Pallacanestro Nardò
PositionShooting guard
LeagueSerie A2
Personal information
Born (1992-06-16) 16 June 1992 (age 32)
Mirano, Venice, Italy
NationalityItalian
Listed height1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Listed weight100 kg (220 lb)
Career information
Playing career2009–present
Career history
2009–2013Reyer Venezia
2011–2012→ Basket Recanati
2012→ Basket Napoli
2012–2013→ Lago Maggiore
2013–2014Azzurro Basket Napoli
2014–2015Reyer Venezia
2015–2018VL Pesaro
2018–2020Brescia Leonessa
2020Scaligera Verona
2021Pallacanestro Mantovana
2021–2022Virtus Bologna
2022–presentPallacanestro Nardò
Career highlights and awards
Medals
Representing Italy Italy
FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship
Silver medal – second place 2010 Spain

Marco Ceron (born 16 June 1992) is an Italian professional basketball player for Pallacanestro Nardò of the Italian Serie A2 Basket. He is a 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) shooting guard.

Professional career

Clubs

Since 2009 Marco Ceron was owned by Reyer Venezia, where he played in the first two seasons.[1] In 2011 he was sent on loan to Basket Recanati in Serie A2 Basket, and later to Basket Napoli.[2] Due to the exclusion from the 2012-13 A2 season of Napoli, the basketball club and Ceron officially parted ways.[3] So in 2012, he went to Pallacanestro Lago Maggiore, where he won the 2013 Italian LNP Cup and named MVP of the competition.[4]

On 25 June 2013 he went back to Napoli in the Azzurro Napoli Basket club, again in Serie A2.[5]

In 2014 Marco Ceron came back to his original club (Reyer Venezia) where he played in the 2014–15 LBA season, the highest professional basketball league in Italy.[6]

Since 2015 he is a player for VL Pesaro,[7] and in 2016 he signed a two-year contract extension with the club.[8] For the 2017–18 LBA season he became team captain.[9] In July 2018, Ceron left Pesaro after 3 years.[10] However, despite having ended the regular season at the first place and having ousted 3–0 both Pesaro and Tortona in the first two rounds of playoffs, Virtus was defeated 4–2 in the national finals by Olimpia Milano.[11]

On 11 July 2018 Ceron signed a two-year deal with Basket Brescia Leonessa.[12] He played one game due to a skull injury in November 2018. On 4 August 2020 Ceron parted ways with the team.[13]

On 4 October 2020, after a long period of inactivity, Ceron returned to play and joined Scaligera Verona with a short contract just for the Supercoppa LNP, summer trophy of Serie A2, the second tier Italian national league. He ended the 2021-21 season at Stings Mantova in the Serie A2.

On 13 August 2021 Ceron returned to the highest level of the Italian basketball, signing with Virtus Bologna in the Serie A and EuroCup Basketball.[14] On 21 September the team won its second Supercup, defeating Olimpia Milano 90–84.[15] Moreover, after having ousted Lietkabelis, Ulm and Valencia in the first three rounds of the playoffs, on 11 May 2022, Virtus defeated Frutti Extra Bursaspor by 80–67 at the Segafredo Arena, winning its first EuroCup and qualifying for the EuroLeague after 14 years.[16]

On 6 August 2022, Ceron signed a deal with Pallacanestro Nardò, in the Italia Serie A2.[17]

Italy national basketball team

Marco Ceron played many years with the U-20 Italy national basketball team winning silver at the 2011 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship.[18]

References

  1. ^ "Umana Reyer Venezia: confermato il giovane Marco Ceron" [Umana Reyer Venezia: Marco Ceron confirmed]. sportando.com (in Italian). Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Napoli-Sant'Antimo, ufficiali gli arrivi di Ceron e Zacchetti" [Napoli-Sant'Antimo, official the arrival of Ceron and Zacchetti]. sportando.com (in Italian). Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  3. ^ "UFFICIALE: Nuovo Napoli Basket escluso dal campionato di LegaDue per mancati pagamenti!" [Official: Nuovo Napoli Basket excluded from LegaDue championship for missed payments!]. sportando.com (in Italian). Archived from the original on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  4. ^ "La SBS Castelletto completa l'opera, la Coppa Italia è sua" [SBS Castelletto completes the work, they won the Italian Cup]. dailybasket.it (in Italian). 17 March 2013. Archived from the original on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Azzurro Napoli Basket, il primo acquisto è Marco Ceron" [Azzurro Napoli Basket, the first purchase is Marco Ceron]. napolitoday.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Reyer Venezia tabs Marco Ceron". sportando.com. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  7. ^ "Vuelle Pesaro inks Marco Ceron". sportando.com. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  8. ^ "Pesaro signs Marco Ceron to a two-year contract extension". sportando.com. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  9. ^ "Vuelle Pesaro sceglie il capitano: è Marco Ceron" [Vuelle Pesaro has chosen the team captain: he is Marco Ceron]. sportando.com (in Italian). Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  10. ^ "La Vuelle risolve con Marco Ceron" [Vuelle and Marco Ceron part ways]. sportando.basketball (in Italian). 10 July 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2018.[permanent dead link‍]
  11. ^ "Olimpia Milano campione d'Italia, Virtus Bologna ko 81-64 in gara-6". Sky Sport. 18 June 2022. Archived from the original on 1 October 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  12. ^ "Leonessa Brescia signs Marco Ceron to a two-year contract". sportando.basketball. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  13. ^ Skerletic, Dario (August 4, 2020). "Germani Brescia, Marco Ceron part ways". Sportando. Archived from the original on September 28, 2020. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  14. ^ "MARCO CERON IS A NEW PLAYER OF VIRTUS SEGAFREDO BOLOGNA". virtus.it. 13 August 2021.
  15. ^ Basket, la Virtus Bologna vince la Supercoppa: Milano ancora ko Archived 2022-10-20 at the Wayback Machine, la Repubblica
  16. ^ "Game Night: Virtus is the 7DAYS EuroCup champion and headed back to the EuroLeague!". euroleaguebasketball.net. 11 May 2022. Archived from the original on 11 May 2022. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  17. '^ Ufficiale, Marco Ceron è un nuovo giocatore della Pallacanestro Nardò, Basket Marche
  18. ^ "SPAIN STAY PERFECT TO BECOME CHAMPIONS". sportando.com. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2017.