Acha Njei

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Basketball player
Acha Njei
Player information
birthday March 19, 1985 (35 years and 166 days)
size 195 cm
position Shooting Guard /
Small Forward
Club information
society WSG 1981 Königs Wusterhausen
Jersey number 9
Clubs as active
0000–2006 Vegesacker TV 2005–2009 Bremen Roosters 2009–2011 EWE Baskets Oldenburg 2011–2014 Artland Dragons 2014–2015 BG Göttingen 2015–2016 SC Rasta Vechta 2016–2017 Nürnberg Falcons BC 2017–2018 Baskets Wolmirstedt Since 2018 WSG 1981 Königs Wusterhausen GermanyGermany
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Acha Njei (born March 19, 1985 ) is a German basketball player . He has been part of the WSG 1981 Königs Wusterhausen squad since 2018.

From 2009 he played in the top German division basketball league , first for the EWE Baskets from Oldenburg , then from 2011 to 2014 for the Dragons from the Artland community and then for the BG Göttingen .

Career

Njei, whose father is of Cameroonian descent, grew up in Bremen and began playing basketball at Blumenthaler TV when he was eleven. Then he also played in his youth for TSV Lesum , whose men's team was the top-class team in Bremen and in 2002 was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga Group North. As a senior, however, Njei first played for Vegesacker TV, in the early 1980s as a second division team a predecessor of TSV Lesum in the highest German leagues. The Vegesackers played in what was then the third-class first regional league in cooperation with the Bremen second division team. For the 2005/06 season , Njei then moved to the second division squad, which had made itself independent of TSV Lesum as Bremen Roosters.

After Bremen had ended the 2006 season as third-bottom of the table, only one defeat separated from a relegation place, they came in seventh place in the 2006/07 2nd basketball division in the final table . After Njei was named “Youngster of the Month” in March 2006 at the end of the season, he was the top performer of the Roosters this season with over 12 points on average, but only made 18 season appearances due to a knee injury. Seventh place was enough for the Roosters to qualify for the new top division ProA of the 2nd basketball league, which replaced the old regional groups with the ProB . In the ProA 2007/08 it was enough for the Roosters to an eleventh place, which after a victory in the ProA 2008/09 could be improved slightly by one place. Njei was able to increase his litter rates significantly compared to the previous season and came back to an average double-digit point yield. However, the Bremen Roosters waived another license for the 2nd Bundesliga after the end of the season.

For the 2009/10 season Njei moved to the German champions EWE Baskets Oldenburg in the top division basketball Bundesliga . There he played with Daniel Hain , who was the same age as Njei and had moved from the second division to Oldenburg two years earlier. While Hain was given more working time during that season due to injuries to other players and was even called up to the national team at the end of the season, Njei hardly got any working time and suffered a cruciate ligament tear in February 2010 , which also hampered him at the beginning of the following season. In two seasons he only made eight appearances and a total of a good 28 minutes of operating time. After the end of the contract he left the club, but stayed in northwest Germany and moved to league competitor Artland Dragons. Here Njei was initially only a supplementary player in the basketball Bundesliga 2011/12 with a low, albeit regular, playing time. The Dragons were eliminated in the play-off semi- finals for the German championship against defending champion Brose Baskets . In the following season 2012/13 his playing time quadrupled and he had a permanent place in the rotation of the players in the second half of the season at the expense of Sergio Kerusch . In the first play-off round, however, the Quakenbrücker was again the end of the line, in which they lost to the previous runner-up ratiopharm Ulm . After the increased game shares Njei's contract was extended. After the Dragons were eliminated early in the 2013/14 Eurocup in the following season , they reached the semi-finals in the play-offs this time under the new coach Tyron McCoy , when they surprisingly dethroned series champion Brose Baskets in the first round. However , the Dragons finally had to admit defeat in four semi-finals against the German cup winner Alba Berlin , who was much more successful in the Eurocup that season . After Njei's operating times under McCoy were reduced again at the end of the season, his contract was no longer extended after the end of the season.

For the following season 2014/15 Njei moved to the first division returnee from Göttingen . Under coach Johan Rojakkers , the newcomer was promising for a long time in the race for a place in the final round of the German championship, including in front of the Artland Dragons, but on the last main round matchday they lost the decisive game at home against their direct rivals MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg and finally missed out on tenth Place the entry into the play-offs. Njei only got a new contract with the former first division club SC Rasta from Vechta shortly before the beginning of the following season ProA 2015/16 and thus stayed in Lower Saxony .

In August 2016, Njei was signed by another club from the 2nd Bundesliga ProA , the Nürnberg Falcons BC . In the run-up to the 2017/18 season, he signed a contract with Baskets Wolmirstedt from the 2nd Regionalliga, with which he won the championship undefeated and contributed to this success an average of 18.8 points per season game. In the summer break of 2018 he moved to the 1st regional league at WSG 1981 Königs Wusterhausen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Access from Bremen seeks the challenge. Nordwest-Zeitung , September 16, 2009, accessed June 13, 2013 .
  2. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Youngster of the Month March - ACHA NJEI (Bremen Roosters) )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.diejungeliga.de
  3. ↑ ( page can no longer be called up , search in web archives: the ProB will be retained )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.diejungeliga.de
  4. ↑ Winfried Beckmann: First basketball, then music. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , December 15, 2011, accessed on October 14, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Dragons sign Njei as Hoffmann replacement. Schoenen-Dunk.de, September 26, 2011, accessed on June 13, 2013 (Medien-Info Artland Dragons).
  6. ↑ Njei further a "dragon". Artland Dragons , June 13, 2013, accessed June 13, 2013 (media info).
  7. ↑ Acha Njei becomes tenth professional at the BG Göttingen (October 1, 2014) ( Memento from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Nuremberg Falcons strengthen themselves with Njei. nordbayern.de, accessed on August 8, 2016 .
  9. ↑ http://basketswms.de/verstaerkung-aus-der-bundesliga-acha-njei-spielt-fuer-sbb-baskets/#more-1448
  10. ↑ https://www.basketball-bund.net/statistik.do?reqCode=statBesteWerferArchiv&_top=-1&_absolut=0
  11. ↑ http://www.reddragons.de/index.php/34-news/herren/1263-vorbericht-1-rln-herren-vs-sbb-wolmirstedt
personal data
SURNAME Njei, acha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Bremen