User:BuckyAdopt/Carlo Antonetti

Carlo Antonetti (Notaresco, October 18, 1960) is an Italian politician, sports executive and former basketball player.

President of Teramo Basket (from 1999 to 2011). He played, as a basketball player, at Teramo (1973/1978-1981/1985), Roseto (1979/1980) and Campli (1986/1991) and was Abruzzo's overall tennis champion (1984).

From the year 1999 to the year 2011, Antonetti was president-owner of Teramo Basket, which won in two calendar years (2002-2003) two consecutive promotions from Serie B of Excellence to Serie A, which participated in eight consecutive Serie A championships (2003/2011), which reached in the year 2008/2009 the third place in Serie A, the semifinals of the Italian Cup and access to the playoffs scudetto against Armani Jeans Milano, and which participated in the year 2009/2010 in the Eurocup against Alba Berlin, Galatasaray Istanbul and Azovmash Mariupol.

In the year 2009 Antonetti was elected the second best executive of the Serie A Basketball League, in the year 2010 he received the Special Award "Pietro Reverberi" - "Oscar del basket" for "Contribution made to Italian basketball," in the years 1996/1998 he was Vice President of the Serie B d'Eccellenza League and in the years 2006-2009 he was a member of the Presidential Council of the Serie A Basketball League.

He is married to Maria Barbara and has three children, Matilde, Giorgio and Marco.

He ran for mayor of Teramo for the center-right in the 2023 municipal elections, losing in the first round with 36.43 percent of the vote.