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Walter De Raffaele

Italian basketball coach

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ4017902 ↗
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Walter De Raffaele (born 31 October 1968) is an Italian professional basketball coach and former player. He was most recently the head coach for Derthona Basket of the Italian LBA. De Raffaele has coached multiple teams in Italy since 2000.

Coaching career

In June 2016, De Raffaele signed a contract as head coach of Umana Reyer Venezia. On May 2, 2018, De Raffaele won the FIBA Europe Cup with Reyer.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 2000, 2016, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968-10-31. The account is most persuasive where Walter, Raffaele and Italian can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Walter De Raffaele” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.