Diego Marcelo Osella (born September 4, 1969 in Oncativo

Oncativo

Oncativo is a city in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. It has 12,660 inhabitants as per the . It is located near the center of the province, 76 km south-southeast from the provincial capital Córdoba City and 64 north-northwest from Villa María, by National Route 9.Although the town had no...

, Córdoba

Córdoba Province (Argentina)

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) is a retired basketball player. With the Argentine national team, he competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics

1996 Summer Olympics

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 in Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

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, finishing in ninth place in the overall-rankings. A year earlier he claimed Argentina's first ever gold medal in men's basketball at the Pan American Games

Pan American Games

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, defeating the United States with the Argentina national basketball team

Argentina national basketball team

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 in the final in 1995 Pan American Games.

Clubs

• Liga Nacional de Básquet: 1988, 1990, 1991-92, 1997-98, 1998-99 y 2008-09
• Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes: 1993, 1994
• Campeonato Panamericano de Clubes: 1996
• Liga Sudamericana de Clubes: 1997, 1998, 2004

All club championship were won playing for Atenas.

National team

• Sudamericano Juvenil: 1988
• Pan American Games
  Pan American Games
  The Pan-American or Pan American Games are a major event in the Americas featuring summer and formerly winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Pan American Games are the second largest multi-sport event after the Summer Olympics...
  
  : 1995
• Sudamericano Mayores: 2001

Personal honours

• Most games played in the Liga Nacional (1.041)
• Most rebounds (6.644)
• Most blocks (970)
• 4th all-time top scorer (12.076)
• Number 11 jersey retired by Atenas

All of those records achieved while playing at the Liga Nacional.

External links

• Number 11 retirement video at BasketBlog.com