Manu Ginobili

Life Biography of Manu Ginobili

In the city of Bahia Blanca, a July 29, 1977 Emanuel David Ginobili born.Since childhood, the young bahiense loved basketball and his idol, like many boys his age, was Michael Jordan. was almost by decanting then Manu started playing basketball. And his career first began in the Andean club during the season 1995/96. The following year Manu Ginobili was quickly traded to Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca, where he excelled for two seasons. And as usual with the talents, his magic kept going abroad, in Italy.
 The year was 1998 and his landing was in the Basket Viola Reggio Calabria, where he played two years. Other clubs were played the pass, until the Virtus Kinder Bologna won the tug of war and I stayed for two seasons.

In that team won the local championship and played in the finals of the 2001 Euroleague, where Manu Ginobili was voted MVP, most valuable player. Manu Ginobili also won the National Cup in Italy in 2000-01 and 2001-02.
The year 2002 was very important to Manu, for his outstanding performance with Argentina (which played since 1998), which won second place in the World Cup in Indianapolis. There was great quintet named player of the tournament (after achieving an average of 16.9 points per game), along with NBA stars like Yao Ming, Dirk Nowitzki and Peja Stojakovic.

In 1999, Manu Ginobili had been elected in 57 th place the NBA Draft by the San Antonio Spurs, but Manu prefierió continue playing in Europe. She had to wait until July 18, 2002, when he signed his first contract for two seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. It was his landing in the big tent in the NBA. And in his first season, led the Spurs to the NBA title in 2002/03. The following year, led the Argentina to the gold medal in the Olympics and was Olimpia de Oro in our country. And to complete your big moment, was chosen to be part of NBA All-Star in the NBA in 2005. As for his personal life, Manu Ginobili speaks perfect English and Italian, loves Latin music, is a heavy user of internet , where we spend hours surfing the web.And since the summer of 2004 shares his life with Marianela Orono, his wife.