Axel Pleuger
Axel Pleuger (born August 14, 1978 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a former German basketball player . The 2.14 meter tall indoor player was active during his professional career for the Bundesliga clubs Leverkusen, Bamberg and Bremerhaven and played in the Spanish ACB league .
career
Pleuger went through the youth department of TV Bensberg before moving to Bayer Leverkusen . For the works team, he played in the Bundesliga and in European club competitions. In 1999 he went from Leverkusen to Bamberg (then TSK universa) within the Bundesliga . In the spring of 2001 Pleuger moved to the Spanish top club Pamesa Valencia and played there until the end of the 2000/01 season (six appearances). In the following season (2001/02) he was in the service of CB Ourense in Spain's second division.
Pleuger returned to Germany in 2002 and played one season each for the second division club Düsseldorf Magics (2002/03) and NVV Lions Mönchengladbach (2003/04). In Mönchengladbach he recorded excellent values with averages of 14.8 points and 14.3 rebounds per encounter. With the Eisbären Bremerhaven he rose from the second to the first Bundesliga in the 2004/05 season, where he was also part of the polar bear squad in 2005/06.
At the end of his competitive sports career he played for the second division Cuxhaven BasCats in the 2006/07 season .
Further career
After the end of his career as a professional basketball player, Pleuger returned to his learned profession as a banker . He was branch manager at Sparkasse Bremerhaven and moved back to the Rhineland in 2009 to become branch manager at the Bergisch Gladbach branch of Kreissparkasse Cologne . Pleuger is also a member of the supervisory board of the Ev. Altenheim Wahlscheid eV
Web links
- easyCredit BBL - Axel Pleuger - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.fibaeurope.com/compID_MsfTeemRHYovSUdkYV76x0.season_1999.roundID_2554.playerID_29214.teamID_1059.html
- ↑ http://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Axel_Pleuger/Germany/Cuxhaven-BasCats/4867
- ↑ http://www.valenciabasket.com/?p=noticias¬icia=1054
- ↑ http://www.acb.com/jugador.php?id=A7I
- ↑ http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/sport/regio-sport/Auf-die-Dragons-wartet-unter-den-Körben-Schwerstarbeit-article216104.html
- ↑ http://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a6653_ProB_Center-Axel-Pleuger-in-Zukunft-ein-Eisbaer.htm
- ↑ http://www.cn-online.de/cn-galerie/pleuger-nicht-mehr-dabei.html
- ^ Kreissparkasse Köln: Change at the top
- ↑ https://www.altenheim-wahlscheid.de/ueber-uns/organigramm/aufsichtsrat/
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SURNAME | Pleuger, Axel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German basketball player |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1978 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bergisch Gladbach |