Luciano Vendemini [SEP] date of death
Luciano Vendemini
Luciano Vendemini (11 July 1952 – 20 February 1977) was an Italian basketball player. He was a member of the Italian team that finished fifth at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He unexpectedly died of a heart failure while sitting on a bench during a basketball match.
Their challengers were also obvious; Innocenti Milano, who had lost no ambition with the sponsor change and Forst Cantù.
The ambitious Cantù counted on American center Bob Lienhard and young dynamic Italians in the vein of Pierluigi Marzorati and Carlo Recalcati to upset the more established duo, and could afford to sell the promising Luciano Vendemini to promoted Brina Rieti for a then record 100 million lire.
The other eleven teams in the league were seen as mostly evenly matched, with little hope of bothering the leading trio, though some,