Achim Kuczmann
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| birthday | February 10, 1954 (66 years and 200 days) | |
| place of birth | Siegburg , Germany | |
| size | 180 cm | |
| position | Point guard | |
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1969–1984 TuS 04 Leverkusen 1984–1988 TuS 1882 Opladen
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| 1974-1988 | BR Germany | (4 games) |
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1988–1994 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1994–2002 Bayer 04 Leverkusen ( AC ) 2002 Bayer Giants Leverkusen 2004–2005 Bayer Giants Leverkusen (AC) 2005–2008 Bayer Giants Leverkusen 2008–2010 Giants Düsseldorf 2011–2018 Bayer Giants Leverkusen
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Achim Kuczmann (born February 10, 1954 in Siegburg ) is a German basketball coach and former Bundesliga basketball player. He was also used in the senior national team of the German Basketball Federation (DBB). From 2011 to 2018 he was the head coach of Bayer Giants Leverkusen . He has been a coach for the Leverkusen basketball team since 1986, responsible for teams in the youth sector and women and men. The DBB entrusted Kuczmann with the job of national coach of the women's national team. At the side of the former national coach Dirk Bauermann , the Leverkusen basketball player was responsible for the men's national team as an assistant coach.
player
At the age of seven, Kuczmann started playing basketball and joined the youth department of TuS 04 Leverkusen . From 1969 he trained together with his brother in the TUS 04 youth team, whereupon the then 16-year-old player was brought into the Bundesliga team. His long playing career began on January 7, 1971 with a game against BG Buer , who had been promoted to the Bundesliga from Gelsenkirchen . For thirteen years, Kuczmann played with the "Riesen vom Rhein" and came to a total of 302 appearances and 1926 points (6.4 points per game) in the basketball league as well as four international matches with the senior national team of the DBB. He ended his career as a first division player at Bayer Giants Leverkusen on March 20, 1984 in the third semi-final game against BSC Saturn Cologne . In the following season he played in the promoted group in the north of the 2nd basketball league , the TuS 1882 Opladen . As a player he finally stopped in 1988 when the Opladen basketball players withdrew from the second division for economic reasons.
Trainer
Since 1986 he worked as a youth coach in the youth division of Bayer Leverkusen before he took over the training of the Bundesliga women of the club after the end of his playing career in 1988. From 1994 he became assistant to head coach Dirk Bauermann in the Bundesliga men, the then dominant team in German basketball. He continued this work when Calvin Oldham took over responsibility for the Bundesliga team in 1998. In February 2002, after separating from Oldham, Kuczmann was temporarily head coach of the Bundesliga team until the end of the season. In the 2002/2003 season Heimo Förster followed as head coach, with whom Kuczmann worked as an assistant from 2004 before he took over as head coach for the 2005/06 season . In 2008 he took part in the change or transfer of the Bundesliga license from Leverkusen to Düsseldorf and worked as the head coach of the BBL club Giants Düsseldorf . This was the first time he worked for a club outside Leverkusen . After moving to Düsseldorf, the sporting development of the Giants there stagnated and so Kuczmann was given a leave of absence in March 2010, after the Giants Düsseldorf were drawn into the relegation battle of the league - initially replaced by his long-time assistant Hansi Gnad , who for the 2010 / 2011 Murat Didin followed.
In April 2011 the Bayer Giants Leverkusen announced that Kuczmann would be head coach of the Giants in the Pro B again for the 2011/2012 season . The employment relationship between the Leverkusen “veteran” and his home club had been suspended for three years in accordance with an agreement made between the two Bundesliga clubs and Kuczmann. Before the start of the preparatory phase of the 2011/2012 season, Achim Kuczmann replaced the then head coach of the Bayer Giants Leverkusen, Chris Martin, who had been assigned the task of head coach as player-coach at the beginning of the 2010/11 season, as the person in charge of the "line". Kuczmann held this position until the end of the 2017/2018 season, which ended for the Giants with a defeat in the first round of the playoffs. Afterwards, Kuczmann resigned from his position as a trainer and handed over the sporting responsibility to his assistant Hansi Gnad . As managing director, however, he remained responsible for the interests of the Leverkusen basketball department. At the beginning of November 2019, Kuczmann retired.
Kuczmann's wife Maria played 150 international basketball games for the selection of the German Basketball Federation. Their son Michael Kuczmann also pursued a career as a competitive basketball player.
Achievements & Awards
player
- 4 × German champion (1971, 1972, 1976, 1979)
- 3 × DBB cup winners (1971, 1974, 1976)
- Appointments to the senior national team, numerous other international assignments.
Trainer
- Championship Pro B 2012/2013
- Coach of the year in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) (2007/08 season)
Web links
- Portrait of Achim Kuczmann . (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 29, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- Giants-Duesseldorf.de: Profile Achim Kuczmann . (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 29, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- Trainer profile on the statistics pages of the BBL ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Wingender: Customized debut for the new coach . (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 29, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Achim Kuczmann website Munzinger biography. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
- ↑ Mahr.SB-Vision.de: Statistics of the international's Kuczmann , accessed on March 14 of 2010.
- ↑ GIANTS leave Achim Kuczmann on leave ( Memento from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ An era comes to an end - Kuczmann hands GIANTS-Ruder over to Gnad. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 2, 2018 ; accessed on May 2, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Achim Kuczmann - A Leverkusen veteran resigns. In: 2. Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
- ^ Games by Maria Kuczmann (150). In: mahr.sb-vision.de. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
- ↑ By FRANK NEUSSER: Giants coach: In Kuczmanns basketball rules. January 20, 2009, accessed on November 2, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Honor for Achim Kuczmann ( Memento from July 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kuczmann, Achim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German basketball player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Siegburg |