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23-763: Rubini is a surname of Italian origin. Notable people with the surname include: Cesare Rubini , Italian basketball player Gabriele Rubini , Italian television presenter Giambattista Rubini , Italian Catholic cardinal Giovanni Battista Rubini , Italian tenor Giulia Rubini , Italian actress Jan Rubini , Swedish-American violinist and conductor Michel Rubini , American musician and composer (son of Jan Rubini) Olinto Sampaio Rubini , Brazilian footballer Sergio Rubini , Italian actor and film director See also [ edit ] Rubini (song) , 2021 song by Mahmood and Elisa Rupini Nouriel Roubini [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
46-690: A "county cap" to players. As of April 2021, 70 players have won 100 or more caps in Test cricket. Players still active at Test level are in bold type . In rugby union , 92 players have reached 100 international caps as of 27 October 2023. Players from England , Scotland , Wales and Ireland are eligible for selection to the British & Irish Lions touring squad. Lions matches are classed as full international tests, and caps are awarded. The Pacific Islanders team, composed of players from Fiji , Samoa , Tonga , Niue and Cook Islands have
69-486: A World Cup or European Championship finals tournament, then they are given a single cap for the competition, with the names of all their opponents stitched into the fabric of the cap itself. For example, when David Beckham made his one-hundredth appearance for England, because a number of his appearances had been at World Cup and European Championship final tournaments for which he could only receive one cap, he received only his 85th physical cap. In Scotland, for many years
92-404: A cap is now international and is applied to other sports. Although in some sports physical caps may not now always be given (whether at all or for each appearance) the term cap for an international or other appearance has been retained as an indicator of the number of occasions on which a sportsperson has represented a team in a particular sport. Thus, a "cap" is awarded for each game played and so
115-586: A gold medal in the sport, at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games , in London , beating the Hungary in the final. With Rubini as a full-time player, Italy could boast what was to be called the "Golden Settebello", one of the most valuable water polo teams ever, which also won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics , and at the Turin European Championship of 1954 . In both the events, Italy
138-474: A player who has played x games for the team is said to have been capped x times or have won x caps. The practice of awarding a physical cap varies from sport to sport. It may be awarded before a player's debut or, particularly for national teams, a commemorative cap may be awarded after a player reaches the 100th cap. Some men's association football teams still award physical caps. Players are awarded one cap for every match they play – unless they play in
161-603: A similar arrangement, although no players involved have so far reached 100 caps (Fijian Nicky Little is closest with 71 caps). Players still active at Test level are in bold type . The International Rugby League honours players that have made 50 international appearances in their career with a special golden cap. The record for most caps is held by former Australian Kangaroos player and captain Darren Lockyer with 59 matches. Players still active at Test level are in bold type . Physical caps are not distributed by
184-406: Is common for a player to be presented with their cap in a ceremony on the first morning of their maiden Test match , although a physical cap may not be presented for every occasion on which a player represents his country. International caps are numbered according to the number of players who have represented the country before. For example, cap number 50 is awarded to the fiftieth player to represent
207-610: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Cesare Rubini Cesare Rubini (2 November 1923 – 8 February 2011) was an Italian professional basketball player and coach, and a water polo player. He was considered to be one of the greatest European basketball coaches of all time, Rubini was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1994, making him the first, and to this day, just one of three Italian basketball figures to receive such an honour, alongside Dino Meneghin and Sandro Gamba . He
230-595: The 1985 EuroBasket , in Stuttgart , and finished second at the 1991 EuroBasket , in Rome . Rubini was involved with his beloved sports until his death: he promoted water polo formation for young athletes, and was the Honorary President of Olimpia Milano. He died on 8 February 2011. Cap (sports) In sport , a cap is a player's appearance in a game at international level. The term dates from
253-409: The surname Rubini . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rubini&oldid=1245724862 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
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#1732800870148276-590: The Milan team, Rubini totaled 501 victories, including the FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague) championship in 1966, and two ( European 2nd-tier ) level FIBA European Cup Winners' Cups (FIBA Saporta Cup) titles, in 1971 and 1972: these were the first European-wide victories of Italian basketball clubs. He also won the Italian Cup , in 1972. As a player, Rubini won a silver medal with
299-617: The Scottish players wearing cowls , and the English wearing a variety of school caps. The practice was first approved on 10 May 1886 for association football after a proposal made by N. Lane Jackson , founder of the Corinthians : That all players taking part for England in future international matches be presented with a white silk cap with red rose embroidered on the front. These to be termed International Caps . The act of awarding
322-459: The country. In some domestic cricket competitions, caps are also awarded. However, they are not awarded automatically for every appearance made, but instead at the discretion of the administrators of the club for whom the recipient plays, and are a one-off recognition that the recipient is now a regular, established player for the club. The most prevalent example of this system is in English county cricket , in which many First Class counties award
345-530: The highest number of international caps as of 5 November 2010 is retired American player Kristine Lilly , who has 354 caps. In men's association football, the record belongs to Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal; he surpassed Bader Al-Mutawa with his 197th cap on 23 March 2023, before extending his record to 198 caps on 26 March 2023. The first footballer to win 100 international caps was Billy Wright of England's Wolverhampton Wanderers . Wright went on to appear 105 times for England, 90 of them he obtained whilst he
368-488: The most prestigious Italian League basketball club at that time. However, he had a long-lived passion for water polo : this led him to later become one of the rare world sportsmen to compete at the highest level in two different team sports. As a club player-coach , Rubini won 6 Italian national domestic league titles in water polo (1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1955) with Società Canottieri Olona, Rari Nantes Napoli, and Rari Nantes Camogli. He also totaled 84 caps , for
391-531: The practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of rugby football and association football . In the early days of football, the concept of each team wearing a set of matching shirts had not been universally adopted, so each side would distinguish itself from the other by wearing a specific sort of cap. An early illustration of the first international football match between Scotland and England in 1872 shows
414-626: The practice was to present caps only for appearances in the British Home Championship , meaning that several players never received one (including those in their 1958 FIFA World Cup squad); this anomaly was rectified retrospectively in the 2000s after pressure from players' families. FIFA recognises certain international games as ones where a player can be awarded a cap – these games are regarded as International "A" games. These are matches in which both nations field their first Representative Team. The world record holder for
437-565: The senior Italian national basketball team , at the EuroBasket 1946 , held in Geneva . Later, as the delegation head of the senior Italian national basketball team, Rubini also took part in the first international victories of Italy: these include the silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympic Games . At the EuroBasket , Italy finished first at the 1983 EuroBasket , in Nantes , finished third at
460-517: The senior Italian water polo national team , 42 of which were as a team captain . He won a gold medal at the 1947 European Water Polo Championship , with the senior Italian national water polo team. In the meantime, he had also assumed the role of player-coach of the Italian basketball club Olimpia Milano , in 1948; and he was called by the national teams of both sports (basketball and water polo) to play with them. Rubini chose water polo, and he won
483-400: Was a captain. Bold denotes players currently active in international football. As in association football, cricket still awards a physical cap. Caps are awarded both at international and domestic level, however the criterion for winning a cap differs between international and domestic cricket. In international cricket, a player is awarded a cap for every appearance made. It
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#1732800870148506-710: Was also inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2000. In 2002, he was awarded the FIBA Order of Merit . He was inducted into the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame , in 2006. He was also inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame , in 2013. Rubini started to play basketball for his high school team, in his native Trieste , where he graduated in 1941. The same year, he began to play for Olimpia Milano 's junior clubs,
529-529: Was behind traditional rivals of Yugoslavia and Hungary . As a club basketball player-coach , Rubini won 6 Italian national domestic league titles (1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957) with Olimpia Milano . In 1957, he devoted himself only to the team's head coach role, and he then went on to win 9 more Italian national domestic league titles with Olimpia (1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1972). In those years, he set an unparalleled record of 322 victories, and 28 defeats. Overall, as head coach of
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