Antti Nikkila
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| Player information | ||
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| Full name | Antti Tapio Nikkila | |
| birthday | August 25, 1978 (42 years and 6 days) | |
| place of birth | Tampere , Finland | |
| size | 210 cm | |
| position |
Center / Power Forward |
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| college | Valparaiso | |
| Club information | ||
| society | Tampereen Pyrintö | |
| league | Korisliiga | |
| Clubs as active | ||
1997–1999 Pyrbasket 1999–2003 Valpo Crusaders ( NCAA ) 2003–2004 Aris Thessaloniki 2004–2005 Ionikos Neas Filadelfias 2005 BCM Gravelines 2005–2006 JuveCaserta Basket 2006–2007 ČEZ Nymburk 2007–2008 Dinamo Sassari 2008–2009 Tampereen Pyrintö 2009–2010 CB Girona Since 2010 Tampereen Pyrintö
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| Since 1997 | Finland | |
Antti Tapio Nikkilä (born August 25, 1978 in Tampere ) is a Finnish basketball player . After studying in the United States , where he was active in the NCAA Division I, he received a contract with Aris from Thessaloniki in Greece in 2003 , but was unable to assert himself. Then Nikkilä played several seasons in the second leagues of Italy and Spain . An engagement in the German basketball league did not come about in 2010 because the MBC from Weißenfels asserted medical reasons for the termination of the contract after an injury-related operation.
In 1999, at the age of 21, Nikkilä went to study at Valparaiso University in the town of the same name in the US state of Indiana , where he was active in NCAA Division I for the Crusaders college team . The Valpo Crusaders were among the leading teams of this NCAA Conference until 2007 while they were part of the Mid-Continent Conference and were also able to qualify twice for the national finals of the NCAA , where they were eliminated in the first round during Nikkiläs active time . Nikkilä was used by the Crusaders for no more than 10 minutes per game on average.
Despite his rather moderate statistics in the NCAA, Nikkilä got a contract in the first Greek league A1 Ethniki with Aris Thessaloniki after finishing his studies in 2003 . Here he could not prevail and moved to the following season for league rivals Ionikos Neas Filadelfias, a suburban Athens club . This was in trouble in the 2004/05 season and was relegated at the end of the season. Nikkilä switched to the first French league LNB Pro A to BCM Gravelines in Dunkirk on the North Sea coast in January 2005 . With the club he was able to win the French Cup Coupe de France in 2005 and reach the final of the Semaine de As league cup . In the following season he moved to the Italian second division LegADue to Caserta . After a third place in the main round, a promotion place was missed in the play-offs . After a season with the Czech series champion ČEZ from Nymburk , where he won the championship and cup double in 2007, he was back in the LegADue in Sassari, Sardinia , in the 2007/08 season . After a third main round place, no promotion place in the play-offs could be achieved with this club, while his ex-club from Caserta succeeded in promotion this time.
After a season at his home club Tampereen Pyrintö in the 2008/09 season he was under contract in the 2009/10 season in the second Spanish league LEB Oro in Girona . With a ninth place after the main round, the last remaining play-off place was reached, in which the team but also no promotion place in the first division was available. In 2010 he first signed a contract with Central German BC in the first German league. After an operation on the elbow, the recovery was not progressing fast enough, so the club terminated the contract before the start of the season. Nikkilä then returned to his home club in Tampere.
After the Finnish national team returned to Division A of the best European national teams under national coach Henrik Dettmann in 2009, the qualifying round for the 2011 European Championship in Lithuania succeeded in qualifying for the final tournament, which was held for the first time with an expanded starting field of 24 national teams has been. At the tournament itself, after victories over Montenegro and a clear success over Bosnia-Herzegovina in the preliminary round, they were able to reach the intermediate round of the top twelve teams.
Web links
- archive.fiba.com: Players - Antti Tapio NIKKILÄ (FIN) - Overview of participation in FIBA competitions (English)
- = Legadue Basket = Antti Nikkila - player statistics from LegADue (Italian)
- Antti Nikkila Stats - Valparaiso Crusaders - College season stats on statsheet.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Anna Blumtritt: VELIMIR RADINOVIC A WOLF AGAIN - NIKKILÄ WILL NOT COME. (No longer available online.) MitteldeutscherBC.de, August 31, 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved September 11, 2011 (press release).
- ↑ Antti Nikkila - Gravelines-Dunkerque - Joueurs - Pro A - LNB.fr. LNB.fr, accessed on September 11, 2011 (French, player statistics).
- ↑ FEB: Resultados y estadísticas - NIKKILA, ANTI TAPIO. FEB.es, accessed on September 11, 2011 (Spanish, player statistics).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nikkilä, Antti |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nikkila, Antti; Nikkilä, Antti Tapio (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tampere |