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Wikipedia - Spirou Charleroi
Spirou Basket, commonly known simply as Spirou, is a Belgian professional basketball club that is located in Charleroi. The club competes in the BNXT League, the highest tier of basketball in Belgium. The club's home arena is the Spiroudome which can host 6,300 people.
Established in 1989, the team is named after the long-running Belgian comics magazine Spirou, the publisher of which, Dupuis, is based in Marcinelle, Charleroi.
History
Spirou Charleroi has won the Belgian League championship ten times (1996–99, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), the Belgian Cup 5 times (1996, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2009), and the Belgian Supercup 7 times (1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010).
In the 2010–11 season, Spirou made its debut in the Euroleague, the highest continental league of Europe. The following season, Spirou played in the regular season for the second time in a row.
On July 29, 2014, Jacques Stas became the new head coach of the club while his predecessor Giovanni Bozzi replaced him as team president.
Since the 2021–22 season, Spirou plays in the BNXT League, in which the national leagues of Belgium and the Netherlands have been merged.
Spirou Charleroi bol založený v roku 1989 a odvtedy sa stal jedným z najlepších klubov v Belgicku. Klub vyhral svoj prvý belgický šampionát v roku 1997 a odvtedy získal ďalších 11 titulov. Klub tiež vyhral 8 belgických pohárov, čo je najviac zo všetkých belgických klubov.
Spirou Charleroi sa pravidelne zúčastňuje aj európskych súťaží. Klub sa dostal do finále EuroCupu v roku 2016 a dostal sa aj do štvrťfinále Ligy majstrov FIBA v rokoch 2017 a 2018.
Súčasný tím Spirou Charleroi vedie tréner Pascal Anglés a v tíme sú hráči ako Retin Obasohan, Jeremy Senglin a Cheikh Mbodj.