Aldo Ossola

Aldo Ossola (born 13 March 1945) is an Italian former basketball player. During his playing career, at a height of 1.92 m (6'3 3⁄4"), he was nicknamed "Von Karajan", due to being a point guard with a great ability to direct the offensive rhythm and game tempo for his teams. On 3 February 2008, Ossola was chosen as one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors, over the previous half-century, by the EuroLeague Basketball Experts Committee. In 2008, he was also inducted into the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame. In 2018, he was named one of the 101 Greats of European Basketball.

With Varese, Ossola won seven Italian League championships, in the years 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1977, and 1978. He also won four Italian Cup titles with the club, in the years 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1973. He was also a four-time Italian League finalist, in the years 1965, 1972, 1975, and 1976, and an Italian Cup finalist in 1972 with the same club.

While with Varese, Ossola also won five European-wide top-tier level FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague) championships, in the years 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975, and 1976. With Varese, he played in a total of ten consecutive EuroLeague Finals, in the years 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979, a record that is in all likelihood, almost impossible to be broken.

Ossola was a member of the junior national teams of Italy. With Italy's junior national team, he won a bronze medal at the 1964 FIBA European Championship for Juniors.

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