Besnik Bekteshi (basketball player)

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Basketball player
Besnik Bekteshi
Player information
birthday January 16, 1993
place of birth Ferizaj, BR Yugoslavia
size 189 cm
position Point Guard /
Shooting Guard
Club information
society Tigers Tubingen
league 2nd Bundesliga ProA
Clubs as active
Until 002009 VfL Kirchheim / Teck 2009–2013 BSG / EnBW Ludwigsburg + ( NBBL ) 2011–2013 → VfL Kirchheim Knights 2013–2014 Weißenhorn Youngstars 2014–2015 Gießen 46ers 2015–2016 Kirchheim Knights 2016–2017 SC Rasta Vechta 2017–2018 RheinStars Cologne since 2018 Tigers TübingenGermanyGermany
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Besnik Bekteshi (born January 16, 1993 in Ferizaj , then Uroševac , province of Kosovo and Metohija ) is a German basketball player who has been under contract with the Tigers Tübingen since May 2018 .

Bekteshi had a promising start to his career as a German youth selection player, where he impressed at the U17 World Cup in Hamburg and was honored as Ludwigsburg's athlete of the year 2010. In the senior sector, Bekteshi was repeatedly thrown back by injuries and did not play a game in the 2013/14 season after a cruciate ligament rupture in March 2013. He made his comeback in the ProA 2014/15 for the former first division club Gießen 46ers and was honored as Youngster of the Month for his achievements in October 2014 .

Career

Bekteshi began playing basketball at VfL in Kirchheim unter Teck and moved to the basketball academy (BBA) of the first division club from Ludwigsburg in 2009. In the junior basketball league (NBBL) 2009/10 Bekteshi was honored as the best " rookie " (newcomer) and achieved an excellent third place with the DBB U17 national team at the 2010 Albert Schweitzer tournament for U18 national teams, when they surprisingly defeated the US youth team in the game for third place. At the following U17 World Championship in the summer, at which the DBB hosted in Hamburg , the selection won only one game after two opening wins and finished eighth. Bekteshi led the team internally in points scored, assists and ball wins , while the Serbian native Bogdan Radosavljević was the best internal rebounder of the selection. In the following 2010/11 season, Bekteshi, who otherwise played in the senior division of the regional league for BSG Ludwigsburg in addition to the junior team in the NBBL , had his first appearances in the basketball league for the first division side EnBW Ludwigsburg by means of a double license . At the beginning of 2011 he was honored by the city of Ludwigsburg as Sportsman of the Year 2010 for his achievements in 2010 .

In the 2011/12 season, Bekteshi only made two short appearances in the first division team in Ludwigsburg and, in addition to the NBBL, otherwise played for the senior team of his home club and Ludwigsburg cooperation partner Kirchheim Knights in the second-highest German division ProA . After Bekteshi with the BBA Ludwigsburg had missed the last chance to get into the top four of the NBBL, he took a second main place in the ProA 2011/12 with the Knights and fought for the runner-up in the league and the right to promotion in the play-offs in the top division, which the Kirchheimers could not take due to the infrastructure requirements of the BBL. In the summer of 2012, Bekteshi again achieved a good fifth place at the U20 European Championship with the selection coach Frank Menz as a younger player with the junior national team. In the basketball Bundesliga 2012/13 Bekteshi made 14 appearances of just under six minutes per game in the top division, but both the Ludwigsburg and Kirchheimers occupied a relegation place in their respective divisions at the end of the season and were only able to stay on the basis from " wildcards ". Bekteshi did not see the end of the season on the floor after he had knee problems before, he suffered a severe cruciate ligament tear at the end of March.

After Bekteshi's contract had expired due to relegation, he stayed in Swabia and moved across the Württemberg state border to the young stars in Weißenhorn , the cooperation partner of the first division club ratiopharm Ulm . However, Bekteshi's convalescence took longer and so he did not play a championship game for the third division team in the ProB 2013/14 . Instead, he moved to the ProA 2014/15 one league higher to the former first division club and old master 46ers from Gießen , where he successfully made his comeback. In the 2014/15 season, Bekteshi was supposed to play a division under his former Ludwigsburg trainer Steven Key with a double license, including for the Giessen cooperation partner Licher BasketBären , but ultimately Bekteshi was only in action for the Giessen team and became Youngster of the Month for October in November 2014 2014 elected to the ProA. After a strong run in the ProA 2014/15, he was finally elected Youngster of the Year at the ProA after the championship and the rise of the Giessen team. Nevertheless, Bekteshi left the first division returnees and stayed in the ProA, where he moved back to the Knights in Kirchheim.

For the 2016/17 season he moved to the newly promoted Bundesliga SC Rasta Vechta . After Vechta was relegated at the end of the 2016/2017 season, Bekteshi left the club again, and in mid-June 2017 the RheinStars Köln from the 2nd Bundesliga ProA announced his commitment. After Cologne's withdrawal into the third division, it was announced on May 25, 2018 that Bekteshi would join the Bundesliga relegated Tigers Tübingen . There he signed a one-year contract with an option for another year.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bekteshi did not play a championship game for Weißenhorn in the 2013/14 season.
  2. ↑ Besnik Bekteshi is Ludwigsburg's Sportsman of the Year 2010. German Basketball Federation , March 22, 2011, accessed on January 11, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Player of the Month October 2014. 2. Basketball Bundesliga , November 13, 2014, accessed on January 11, 2015 (media information).
  4. ↑ U17 boys win bronze after a sensational tournament. Deutscher Basketball Bund , April 10, 2010, accessed on January 11, 2015 (media information and match report in the news archive).
  5. ↑ Player Statistics - Besnik Bekteshi. Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on January 11, 2015 (player profile on statistics pages).
  6. ^ Ludwigsburg pays tribute to Besnik Bekteshi. Der Teckbote , March 21, 2011, accessed on January 11, 2015 .
  7. ↑ U20 men: Top five in Europe! Deutscher Basketball Bund , July 22, 2012, accessed on January 11, 2015 (media information and match report).
  8. ^ Another offensive Waterloo. Schoenen-Dunk.de, March 9, 2010, accessed on January 11, 2015 (media info ASC Theresianum Mainz; see section on players who failed).
  9. ↑ Besnik Bekteshi strengthens Weißenhorn young stars. Südwest Presse , December 3, 2013, accessed January 11, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Besnik Bekteshi is playing for the GIESSEN 46ers in the 2014/2015 season. Giessen 46ers , June 25, 2014, accessed on January 11, 2015 (Medien-Info).
  11. ↑ Player / coach of the 2014/2015 season. 2. Basketball Bundesliga , May 21, 2015, accessed on May 27, 2015 (media information).
  12. ↑ A real Kirchheimer - Kirchheim Knight sign Besnik Bekteshi. 2. Basketball Bundesliga , May 26, 2015, accessed on May 27, 2015 (Medien-Info Kirchheim Knights).
  13. ^ First news: Geske and Bekteshi on RASTA. Retrieved June 27, 2016 .
  14. ↑ http://www.rheinstars-koeln.de/2017/06/16/jung-hungrig-besnik-bekteshi/
  15. ↑ http://walter-tigers.de/index.php?id=63&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=3518&cHash=324b897f8acf2553bb117602b4d602d7
personal data
SURNAME Bekteshi, Besnik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferizaj , Kosovo, FR Yugoslavia