Héctor Campana

Héctor Oscar "Pichi" Campana Marcomini (born November 10, 1964) is an Argentine former professional basketball player, and the former Vice Governor of his native Córdoba Province, in Argentina, serving for the Justicialist Party, from 2007 to 2011. During his basketball career, while playing at the club level, Campana won the FIBA Intercontinental Cup championship in 1983, the Pan American Club Championship in 1996, three FIBA South American League championships, in 1997, 1998, and 2004, and a total of seven LNB (Argentine First Division) championships. Campana is also the all-time top scorer in the top-tier level league in Argentina, the Liga Nacional de Básquet (LNB), with 17,359 points.

Campana also played with the senior Argentine national team, and he represented Argentina at the FIBA World Cups editions of 1986, 1990, and 1994. He has also participated in a record 15 Argentine All-Star Games with the last being in 2022, eighteen years after his retirement.

Professional career Campana started his pro club career with Redes Cordobesas, in the Córdoba Province local league, in 1976. He subsequently joined the Buenos Aires side Obras Sanitarias, in 1982, and debuted with the club in the Liga Nacional de Básquet (Argentine First Division) in 1984, the year of the league's inception. During his 28-year-long club career, he played exclusively in Argentina. The shooting guard had four spells with Córdoba's biggest team, Atenas, which was the club that he retired with in 2004, at the age of 39.

Campana was the Argentine National League Final's MVP three times, twice with River Plate (1989 and 1990), once with GEPU (1990–91), and once with Atenas (1998–99). Campana's four league MVP selections is an Argentine National League record that he shares with Leonardo Gutiérrez. Campana was also the league's top scorer in four consecutive seasons, from 1989 to 1991–92. Moreover, Campana's seven Argentine National League championships are tied with Marcelo Milanesio, for the second most ever in the league's history, behind only Leonardo Gutiérrez's ten league championships.