Akhmajah Zazai
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| Player information | ||
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| Nickname | Cha Cha | |
| birthday | 5th December 1986 (age 33) | |
| place of birth | Berlin, Germany | |
| size | 175 cm | |
| position | Point guard | |
| Club information | ||
| society | Hamburg Towers | |
| league | Basketball Bundesliga | |
| Jersey number | 2 | |
| Clubs as active | ||
2003–2005 TuS Lichterfelde 2005–2006 SG Braunschweig
2006–2007 EnBW Ludwigsburg
2007–2008 Bremen Roosters 2008 Horsens IC
2008–2009 Telemotive Munich 2009 Artland Dragons
2009–2010 TV 1862 Langen 2010 USC Freiburg
2010–2011 BV Chemnitz 99 2011–2013 Gießen 46ers 2013–2014 Basketball Löwen Braunschweig
2015–2016 Gießen 46ers 2016–2017 Mitteldeutscher BC 2018 Ehingen / Urspring
2018–2019 Hamburg Towers Since 2020 Itzehoe Eagles |
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Achmadschah Zazai (born December 5, 1986 in Berlin ) is a German basketball player of Afghan descent. He has been part of the Itzehoe Eagles team since 2020 .
Born in Berlin, he played for a number of second division teams in Germany after initially failing to make a permanent jump to a first division squad. From the 2011/12 season onwards, he was relatively small for a professional basketball player with a height of under 1.80 m, but was very agile and was an integral part of the squad of the first division club Gießen 46ers, to which he returned in early 2015 after a season for the first division club Phantoms Braunschweig.
Career
Until 2005, Zazai played in his hometown of Berlin for TuS Lichterfelde, whose junior teams can boast many successes at national level. For the 2005/06 season he moved to the second division team of SG Braunschweig. There the junior national player could recommend himself for the first division side EnBW Ludwigsburg , who let him play in the 2006/07 season as a double license player in the regional league team of the home club BSG Ludwigsburg. In addition, Zazai came to twelve missions with an average of five minutes in the basketball Bundesliga for the professional team. For the inaugural season of the new ProA second division in 2007/08 , he moved to the Bremen Roosters, where he did not get the chance as desired, which is why he moved to the Danish first division club Idræts Club in Horsens in January 2008 , who had last been Danish champions in 2006.
For ProB 2008/09 Zazai moved to Munich , where he played together with Andrej Mangold for the former third Telemotive Baskets. While local competitor and regional league climber FC Bayern jumped the class and competed in the ProA higher division with the license from Düsseldorf Magics , the team that emerged from TSV 1860 only reached third from bottom of the table, with Zazai individually with a good 13 points and 5 assists could show good personal statistics with over 30 minutes of playing time per game. While the Munich team accepted the sporting relegation despite the waiver of licenses by other clubs and withdrew from the national divisions, Zazai wanted to realize his dream of the first division and at the beginning of the BBL season 2009/10 jumped in for the injured Flavio Stückemann at the first division club Artland Dragons . After four short assignments, the fixed-term contract was not extended and Zazai returned to ProA in December 2009, where he first played for Hessian TV Langen, before he was signed for the rest of the season by USC Freiburg, which was able to stay up as a promoted player. For the ProA 2010/11 Zazai was obliged by the league competitor Chemnitz Niners, where he was able to confirm his performances from the 2008/09 season. Behind FC Bayern and the s.Oliver Baskets , the Niners took third and best non-promotion place.
However, Zazai realized his dream of promotion to the top division in 2011. After he could not fight for a place in the squad of the promoted s.Oliver Baskets from Würzburg in the pre-season 2011/12 , Björn Harmsen brought him into the squad of the first division 46ers from Gießen . As a result, he was an integral part of a rotation in a first division team with 15 minutes of use in his first season. For the club, however, the basketball Bundesliga 2011/12 ended on a relegation zone and the only way to stay in the league was by purchasing a wild card . However, the club took the sporting and financial problems with it into the following season 2012/13 , where at the end of 2012, as bottom of the table, four points were deducted after a preliminary bankruptcy application. The season ended with the sporting relegation of the 46ers as a knocked-off bottom of the table. However, Zazai was able to convince with his performances in the BBL and signed a contract with the New York Phantoms Braunschweig for the 2013/2014 season . After a season in which the Braunschweig team again failed to qualify for the play-offs for the German championship, Zazai returned to the now second division team in Gießen in early 2015. There Zazai became Pro A champion with the Gießen 46ers in the 2014/15 season and played for the club in the Bundesliga the following season.
In the summer of 2016 he was signed by the Mitteldeutscher BC from the 2nd Bundesliga ProA and won the championship title with the Weißenfels team in the 2016/17 season. He was then without a club for a few months before joining the Ehingen / Urspring syndicate (2nd Bundesliga ProA) at the end of January 2018 . By the end of the season, Zazai had scored an average of 12.4 points in ten missions and was preparing 8.1 basket success for his teammates for each match, but at the end of the ProA points round, he was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga ProB. Due to the withdrawal of Cologne, Ehingen ultimately remained in the second-highest division.
In mid-June 2018, Zazai was signed by Hamburg Towers (also 2. Bundesliga ProA) and shortly before the start of the 2018/19 season, he was appointed team captain of the Hanseatic League and, in May 2019, was promoted to the Bundesliga as ProA champion. Zazai had achieved an average of 6.6 points over the course of the championship season and prepared 4.9 basket successes for his fellow men. The latter was the team maximum. His contract in Hamburg was not extended.
In June 2019 he took first place in the three-point competition of the streetball world championship "Quai 54" in Paris. He worked as a (co-) operator of a security service and was therefore suspended in the 2019/20 season. In the run-up to the 2020/21 season, he joined the third division team Itzehoe Eagles .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2006 U20 European Championship Men: Division A - Teams: Germany. FIBA , accessed on January 31, 2013 (English, squad overview).
- ↑ Janine Engeleiter: Time for Zazai. ( August 1, 2017 memento on the Internet Archive ) Archived from Basketball website; Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, September 26, 2011. Accessed July 22, 2019.
- ↑ BBL deducts four points from Giessen. Nordwest-Zeitung , December 28, 2012, accessed January 30, 2013 .
- ↑ Construction player Akhmadschah Zazai strengthens the MBC. Retrieved September 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Dino Reisner: Wolves crown the “season of superlatives” with ProA championships. On: Website des Mitteldeutscher BC, Weißenfels, May 7, 2017. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
- ↑ NN: Cha Cha Zazai strengthens the Ehingen / Urspring team. On: Pro A website; Cologne, January 31, 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ↑ http://www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de/teams/kader/481/#tab-stats
- ↑ https://www.swp.de/sport/basketball/ehingen-steig-in-die-prob-ab-25089912.html
- ↑ BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Hamburg Towers sign Achmadschah Zazai. Retrieved on August 16, 2019 (German).
- ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/sport/article215380371/Achmadschah-Zazai-ist-neuer-Kapitaen-der-Hamburg-Towers.html
- ↑ Alexander Berthold and Rainer Grünberg: Exciting finale: Hamburg Towers are second division champions. May 4, 2019, accessed on May 4, 2019 (German).
- ↑ BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Squad. Retrieved on May 4, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Alexander Berthold and Rainer Grünberg: Willoughby conjures up the new power of the Hamburg Towers . Hamburger Abendblatt, August 13, 2019
- ↑ Spike Lee and NBA champ Serge Ibaka review the Baskets duo. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Achmadschah Zazai - well-known entry for Itzehoe Eagles. Retrieved on August 28, 2020 (German).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Zazai, Achmajah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th December 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , Germany |