Albert Miralles

Player information
Albert Miralles

Full name	Alberto Miralle's mountains
birthday	May 14, 1982 (38 years 110 days)
place of birth	Barcelona, Spain
size	206 cm
position	Power Forward / Center
NBA draft	2004 , 39th pick Toronto Raptors
Club information
society	Joventut de Badalona
league	League ACB
Clubs as active
1999–2001 Joventut de Badalona 2000–2001 → Drac Inca 2001–2002 Club Ourense Baloncesto 2002–2003 Virtus Bologna 2002–2003 → Basket Rimini Crabs 2003–2004 Euro Roseto 2004–2005 Vertical Vision Cantù 2005–2009 Pamesa Valencia 2009–2011 Lagun Aro GBC 2011–2012 Angelico Biella 2012–2013 ALBA Berlin Since 2013 Joventut de Badalona Spain Spain Spain Italy Italy Italy Italy Spain Spain Italy Germany 0Spain
National team
2005	Spain	4th

Alberto Miralles Berge (born May 14, 1982 in Barcelona , Catalonia ) is a Spanish basketball player . Miralles played professionally next to his home country in Italy and in Germany , where he won the Beko BBL Cup 2013 with ALBA Berlin .

Career

Miralles played successfully in his youth for the youth teams of Joventut from Badalona , with whom he won the national U20 junior championship in 2001, as well as for the Spanish junior national team, with which he won the silver medal at the U20 European championship in 2002 behind Greece. Meanwhile, Miralles was already used in the men's team of Joventut in the top Spanish league ACB in individual games. During the 2000/01 season Miralles was loaned to the second division club Drac from Inca on Mallorca in the LEB . He then left his training club Joventut and played in the second league LEB for the club from Ourense , who lost the semi-final series of the play-offs for promotion to CB Lucentum Alicante after the second main round place .

After the silver medal at the U20 European Championships with the Spanish junior team, Miralles got a contract with the Italian cup winner Virtus from Bologna in 2002 , but after a few games he also loaned him to a second division club. With the Crabs from Rimini he reached the end of the 2002/03 season in LegADue in ninth place after the main round and just missed the play-offs for promotion. In the following season 2003/04 he then played in the top Italian league Lega Basket Serie A for the club from Roseto degli Abruzzi , with whom he reached relegation in 13th place in the final table. In the following entry draft of the highest endowed professional league NBA , he was selected in 2004 in 39th place by the Toronto Raptors, which then did not take him over in their squad. So Miralles played again in Italy in the 2004/05 season for Roseto's league rivals Vertical Vision from Cantù , with whom he was eliminated in the first play-off round for the championship in three games against Armani Jeans Milan . Then Miralles came in preparation for the European Championship 2005 in four games for the Spanish national team, but was not appointed to the tournament squad.

In 2005 Miralles returned to his home country and signed a contract with Pamesa from Valencia . In the Spanish cup competition " Copa del Rey " they reached the final, which was lost to TAU Cerámica . In the championship they finished ninth again and narrowly missed entry into the play-offs for the championship. In the following season 2006/07 they made it to the play-offs, in which they were defeated by the eventual champions Real Madrid in the first round . This was repeated in the next two seasons when you lost the first round series against eventual champions TAU Cerámica and in 2008/09 this series against eventual champions FC Barcelona in the 2007/08 play-offs . In the ULEB Cup 2007/08 they lost the quarter-finals against their former club Joventut, which then also won the title, and a year later in the Eurocup 2008/09 the quarter-finals against the eventual finalist BK Chimki from Russia . In the following two seasons Miralles then played for the Basque club Gipuzkoa from San Sebastián , who had returned to the top Spanish league ACB a year earlier and with which he did not get beyond relegation.

For the 2011/12 season Miralles moved again to the first Italian league and played for Angelico from Biella , who also managed to stay in the league in twelfth place. Then Miralles got a contract for the basketball Bundesliga 2012/13 from the German first division club ALBA in Berlin . Here Miralles mostly came off the bench as a substitute, but had to suspend individual games due to foreigner restrictions in the Bundesliga after making additional commitments and made a total of 27 championship appearances in the German league. While they reached the round of the 16 best teams in the ULEB Euroleague , the highest European club competition, which has existed since 2001 , and won the Beko BBL Cup in 2013 in front of their own audience, they were eliminated in the championship play - only for the second time in ALBA's club history -offs out early in the first round. After Miralles had not played in the national cup games in which they won the title and no longer got a new contract, he moved back to his home country to his home club Joventut de Badalona.

Web links

Miralles, Albert - Statistics on the websites of ULEB Euro League (English)

Albert Miralles - player profile on the websites of the Liga ACB (Spanish)

Legabasket: Albert Miralles - player profile on the statistics pages of Serie A (Italian)

Individual evidence

↑ The second surname is sometimes also written with Akut Bergé , for example in the FIBA player archive
↑ archive.fiba.com: Players - Albert MIRALLES BERGÉ (ESP). Fédération Internationale de Basketball , accessed on May 14, 2013 (English, overview of participation in FIBA tournaments).
↑ Greece - Spain / European Championship for Young Men 2002. FIBA Europe , accessed on May 14, 2013 (English, game statistics of the final game).
↑ Legadue Basket: Albert Miralles. LegADue , accessed on May 14, 2013 (Italian, player statistics).
↑ NN: Spaniard Albert Miralles completes the squad. On: Alba Berlin — Website, Berlin, August 31, 2012. Accessed February 2, 2019.
^ Albert Miralles (ALBA BERLIN). Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on May 14, 2013 (player profile on statistics pages).
^ Albert Miralles: "Es todo un honor para mí volver a vestir esta camiseta". Liga ACB , August 28, 2013, accessed on September 1, 2013 (Spanish, media info FIATC Joventut).

personal data
SURNAME	Miralles, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Miralles Berge, Alberto (full name); Miralles Bergé, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	spanish basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH	May 14, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barcelona , Spain

[1] The second surname is sometimes also written with Akut Bergé , for example in the FIBA player archive

[FIBA_ARCHIV-2] archive.fiba.com: Players - Albert MIRALLES BERGÉ (ESP). Fédération Internationale de Basketball , accessed on May 14, 2013 (English, overview of participation in FIBA tournaments).

[3] Greece - Spain / European Championship for Young Men 2002. FIBA Europe , accessed on May 14, 2013 (English, game statistics of the final game).

[4] Legadue Basket: Albert Miralles. LegADue , accessed on May 14, 2013 (Italian, player statistics).

[5] NN: Spaniard Albert Miralles completes the squad. On: Alba Berlin — Website, Berlin, August 31, 2012. Accessed February 2, 2019.

[6] Albert Miralles (ALBA BERLIN). Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on May 14, 2013 (player profile on statistics pages).

[7] Albert Miralles: "Es todo un honor para mí volver a vestir esta camiseta". Liga ACB , August 28, 2013, accessed on September 1, 2013 (Spanish, media info FIATC Joventut).