Ali Traoré
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| Player information | ||
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| birthday | 28th February 1985 (age 35) | |
| place of birth | Abidjan, Ivory Coast | |
| size | 207 cm | |
| position | Power Forward / Center | |
| Club information | ||
| society | JSF Nanterre | |
| league | LNB Pro A | |
| Jersey number | 24 | |
| Clubs as active | ||
2001–2004 ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne 2004–2005 CSI Golden Eagles (NJCAA) 2005 UJAP Quimper 2005–2006 Chorale Roanne Basket 2006–2008 STB Le Havre 2008–2010 ASVEL 2010–2011 Lottomatica Rome 2011–2012 Lokomotive Kuban Krasnodar 2013 ALBA Berlin Since 2013 JSF Nanterre    
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| Since 2009 | France | 56 |
| 1 As of March 5, 2013 | ||
| Ali Traoré medal table |
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| bronze | 2011 Lithuania | |
Ali Traoré (born February 28, 1985 in Abidjan , Ivory Coast ) is a French basketball player . Traoré comes from the training program of the French record champion ASVEL from Villeurbanne , with which he was twice champion. After being a youth selection player for France in 2001, he only made it to the men's national team in 2009 , with which he won the silver medal at the European Championships in 2011 and took part in the 2012 Olympic Games . After a protracted injury at the Olympic Games, he made a comeback with the German first division club ALBA Berlin in February 2013 and won the Beko BBL Cup 2013 with this club .
Career
Traoré was born in Ivory Coast as the son of two Malian basketball players. His father later got a job as a coach in France, while Traoré did not begin to play basketball in terms of performance until he was just under 14. Nevertheless, he joined the training program of the renowned French association ASVEL as early as 2000 at the age of 15. In 2001 he already took part in the European Championship finals for the U16 national team, where the youth team finished fifth. Then he was allowed to train with the first team of ASVEL in the 2001/02 season and under coach Bogdan Tanjević already completed two short assignments in the LNB Pro A , which ASVEL ended with winning their 16th championship. While he was still active for the ASVEL youth team, he got two more short appearances in the top French league under the new coach Philippe Hervé. In 2004 he finally decided to move to the United States , where, like Yakhouba Diawara before, he first went to the Junior College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls , whose basketball team Golden Eagles are among the most successful teams in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) . At the beginning of 2005, Traoré dropped out of college and in February 2005 joined the French second division Union Jeanne d'Arc Phalange (UJAP) from Quimper in Brittany in the Pro B, which at the end of the season in the first round of the Play- offs to get promoted.
2005 returned Traoré in the first French League Pro A and in the region of Rhône-Alpes back and played for Chorale Basket from Roanne who withdrew in the qualifying round for the championship play-offs at the end of the season. He then played two seasons in the north of France for "Saint-Thomas Basket" (STB) from Le Havre , where he moved into the starting five and got an average of over 20 minutes in the top division. 2008 reached STB with the fifth place after the main round its so far best placement, but retired in the first round of the play-offs against the defending champion and Traoré's former club Chorale Roanne. Traoré then returned to ASVEL in Lyon, where he gave his career new impetus under ASVEL's new coach Vincent Collet . ASVEL not only won first place after the main round, but also stayed victorious in the play-offs, winning its 17th championship in 2009. Subsequently, Traoré was appointed to the men's national team by the new national coach, Collet . At the 2009 European Championship finals , they won all five preliminary and intermediate rounds , but lost the quarter-finals with a difference of 20 points against the poorly started world champion and later title winner Spain and finished fifth after two wins in the placement round, although after only one defeat had the best record of all participating teams in the quarter-finals. In the 2009/10 season, ASVEL won the league cup "Semaine de As", but missed the play-offs for the championship as defending champions with ninth place. Traoré was nevertheless named the best French Pro A player in the 2009/10 season. At the 2010 Basketball World Cup , the French selection surprisingly lost the final group game against New Zealand and was eliminated early from the tournament after losing to hosts Turkey .
In 2010 Traoré moved abroad and played for Virtus Lottomatica again under coach Tanjević in the Italian capital Rome . While they reached the intermediate round of the 16 best teams in the highest European club competition, the ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 , they missed the play-offs for the national championship as the main round ninth under the Lega Basket Serie A. With the national team, Traoré won the pre-Olympic preparatory tournament in London and at the 2011 European Championship finals they only lost the final game against defending champions Spain in the preliminary and intermediate rounds . Then you moved in the final round after two wins in the final, in which you were again defeated by Spain, and won the silver medal. This also meant qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games . In the 2011/12 season Traoré played for Kuban locomotive from the Russian Krasnodar . In the PBL 2011/12 and the VTB United League 2011/12 they each reached the qualification for the Final Four tournament, while in the European club competition Eurocup 2011/12 they were eliminated in the quarter-finals against the national competitor and later title winner BK Chimki . At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, they won all preliminary round games after losing to defending champions United States , but were then eliminated from the tournament after a quarter-final defeat against European champions Spain. After a knee injury at the Olympic Games, Traoré did not play a game for his Russian club at the beginning of the 2012/13 season and left it in December 2012. A subsequent engagement at KK Roter Stern Belgrade was broken up after being signed by the German first division club ALBA Berlin Traoré did his first job after the Olympic Games at the end of February. At Alba he played again with his former Roman teammate Nihad Đedović and won the Beko BBL Cup in 2013 . After another injury, he could no longer help ALBA in the play-offs for the championship of the basketball Bundesliga 2012/13 , in which the club was eliminated early in the first round. After he missed the European Championship finals in 2013 , in which France won the title for the first time, as a result of the injury, he moved back to France for the reigning champions JSF Nanterre near Paris for the 2013/14 season.
Others
Traoré is known for never being embarrassed about a line and has the Twitter account bomaye12 in memory of Muhammad Ali's battle cry at the " Rumble in the Jungle " with which he got the local audience behind him.
Web links
- Ali Traore - Joueurs - Pro A - Profile on the websites of the French LNB ( French )
- easyCredit BBL - Ali Traor --- - Player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
- TRAORE, ALI - player profile on the websites of the EuroLeague ( English )
- Ali Traoré - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Player profile at the French association ( Memento from April 9, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ a b Legabasket: Ali Traoré. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed March 5, 2013 (Italian, player profile on statistics pages).
- ↑ Basket - Pro A. Traoré et Greer élus MVP ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Kristina Mishina: Ali Traore left for Germany. (No longer available online.) Kuban Krasnodar locomotive , October 24, 2012, archived from the original on February 22, 2016 ; accessed on March 5, 2013 (English, media info). 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.
- ↑ French international Traoré comes to Berlin. ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ JSF NANTERRE adds veteran big man Traore ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Traoré, Ali |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abidjan , Ivory Coast |