Toto Forray wrote EuroCup history at Trento, his beloved home for 14 years

The veteran guard recently became the player with most EuroCup appearances all-time

Who can take pride in being the living legend of a European basketball team nowadays? The answer is unclear, but approximately very few people. Andrés Pablo "Toto" Forray probably didn't think about becoming just that back in 2003.

Leaving Argentina and Buenos Aires for Italy at not even 18 years of age meant betting on his own talent and ambitions – and ultimately it paid off. From his first arrival in Messina up until 2011, he was shaping the course of his career in the lower divisions of Italian basketball.

Having started out at Messina, he moved up to the Veneto region and ending up playing at Padova and Jesolo. Forli came up next, where he stayed for three years and began to feel at home.

Dolomiti Energia Trento came with an unexpected approach, taking him on a loan deal that later became a regular transfer. What is clear is that 2011 move was a crucial cornerstone in the career of Toto Forray. From that season to today, there's not a single basketball fan who doesn’t associate Forray with Trento, and vice versa.

"I knew Trento was a club with clear ideas. So when they offered me to come here, I accepted immediately because I didn’t want to stay still too long," he first opens to Eurohoops' Cesare Milanti.

"After, I found myself in a team that I already knew because I had played against it, but which had exceeded all my expectations and had a long-term project that we were able to consolidate each and every year, with me as an important part of this project. I never had the idea of leaving.”

Why focus on a soon-to-be 39-year-old who's only averaging 5.1 points per game in the 2024-25 BKT EuroCup season? Well, because last week Toto Forray wrote history in the competition.