Bruno Roschnafsky

Bruno Roschnafsky
Player information
Full name	Marius Bruno Roschnafsky
birthday	April 4th 1970
place of birth	Orăștie, Romania
size	206 cm
position	Center / Power Forward
Clubs as active
000000000 Steaua Bucharest 1990–1992 CSU Cluj-Napoca 1992–1998 TTL Bamberg 1998–2000 SSV hagebau Weißenfels 2000–2002 TBB Trier 2002–2005 Union Baskets Schwelm 2005–2007 CSU Mobitelco Cluj-Napoca 2007–2010 BC Gladiator Cluj-Napoca
National team
000001992	Romania
Clubs as coaches
2008–2010 BC Gladiator Cluj-Napoca

Marius Bruno Roschnafsky (born April 4, 1970 in Orăştie , Transylvania ) is a German - Romanian basketball coach and former player. The Romanian national player failed with the Romanian national team in 1992 to qualify for the Olympic basketball tournament , before playing for 13 years in the homeland of his German ancestors. In addition to a Romanian championship in 1992, Roschnafsky won the German Cup in 2001 with HERZOGtel Trier . After 2005, he played another five years in his native Cluj-Napoca and led it to BC Gladiator as player-manager in the highest Romanian League Divizia A .

Career

At the European Junior Championships in 1990, a Romanian junior selection with the two over 2.20 m tall giants Gheorghe Mureșan and Constantin Popa as well as Antonio Alexe , Marcel Țenter and Roschnafsky attracted attention and just barely missed one after reaching the semi-finals in fourth place Medal win. After winning the tournament in the Netherlands against the German youth team, they also won the following four games, including against Spain, and celebrated the group victory. In the semifinals they lost, despite among other things, 31 individual points from Roschnafsky with a point difference against the offspring of the Soviet Union, before they clearly lost to the Spaniards in the small final for the bronze medal. This was and is the historically best placing of a male Romanian young talent in the European finals of FIBA Europe . A year later, the selection at the Junior World Championships in 1991 in Edmonton, Canada reached fifth place, with Roschnafsky with just under 22 points per game behind his teammate Mureşan was one of the five top scorers of the tournament. Then Mureșan, Țenter and Roschnafsky failed with the club team CSU from Cluj-Napoca despite a 107: 101 home win in the first leg against the high French favorite ÉB Pau-Orthez in the group stage of the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup 1991/92 . Again, almost a year later, Roschnafsky missed participation in the 1992 Olympic basketball tournament with the Romanian men's selection at the European qualifying tournament after defeats against Croatia , Greece and the German selection .

The German home of his ancestors was to be his place of work for the next 13 years. While Mureşan, after winning the joint championship with U Cluj-Napoca, played for a year before his career in the NBA with former European cup opponent Pau-Orthez, Roschnafsky switched to the German TTL cup winner from Bamberg . But also with the Bamberg club he missed the group stage of the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup 1992/93 and at the end of the Basketball Bundesliga 1992/93 he was German runner-up behind series champion TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen , who also won the Bamberg cup title again decreased. Because of his German ancestry, Roschnafsky was granted German citizenship, but after his international assignments for Romania he was unable to be nominated for the German national team . This surprisingly won the European Championship finals in 1993 as hosts with Roschnafsky's club mates Kai Nürnberger and Mike Jackel , in which the Romanian selection was not among the 16 qualified participants. In the following three years, Bamberg was usually the best southern club in the Bundesliga, but failed in the play-off semi-finals at the northern clubs Brandt Hagen , Alba Berlin and series champions Leverkusen. Although Leverkusen's dominance in the basketball Bundesliga 1996/97 , which has been played again without regional groups since 1995, ended after seven championships in a row, but the Bambergers could not benefit from it, but lost the semi-final series against the strong promoted Telekom Baskets Bonn . As third in the main round, Bamberg finally lost the semi-final series of the basketball Bundesliga 1997/98 against seventh ratiopharm Ulm . Internationally, Bamberg played almost continuously in the Korać Cup , but without ever reaching the round of 16 during this time. For the 1998/99 season Roschnafsky could no longer agree with the Bambergers on a contract extension and he left the club.

Instead, Roschnafsky moved to the 2nd basketball league in 1998/99 to the second division SSV unit hagebau in Weissenfels , who moved up to the basketball league 1999/2000 under coach Frank Menz with the former first division players Ingo Freyer and Douglas Spradley . After an excellent sixth place in the main round, the first team from the accession area from 1990 failed in the top German men's division in the play-off quarter-finals at the Skyliners Frankfurt . Roschnafsky then moved to the table neighbor and Fifth HERZOGtel in Trier , where his former Bamberg teammate Keith Gray already played. With this team he played again internationally in the Korać Cup, but they were eliminated early. While Trier slipped in the league and did not qualify for the play-offs twice in a row, Roschnafsky and the team have now also won a title in Germany in the 2001 Cup Top Four . But since the Trier name sponsor became insolvent, the following basketball league 2001/02 was not under a good star when the Trier game operating company had to file for bankruptcy. Despite relegation and a restart in the top division Roschnafsky left Trier and moved again to the second division to Union Basket in Schwelm . Despite a good preparation for the season, the Schwelmer missed the promotion as second in the northern group behind TSV Quakenbrück , who, after just missed promotion, now achieved promotion to the top division with a perfect season . With only two season defeats in the 2nd basketball league 2003/04 this was finally granted to the Schwelmern, who, however, found themselves much more difficult as promoted players in the basketball league 2004/05 than promoted Quakenbrück in the previous season. With only four wins in 30 games this season they were knocked off bottom of the table and immediately relegated. At the age of 35, Roschnafsky broke his tents in Germany and returned to his native country, while his former Romanian teammate Marcel Țenter, who had also played briefly in Bamberg after Roschnafsky , achieved promotion to the first division with Falke Nürnberg after five years.

Back in Transylvania, Roschnafsky played the following two seasons again from 2005 for his former club CSU Cluj-Napoca, with whom he once again reached the final series for the championship in 2006 after a long break, but which was lost to series champions CSU Asesoft Ploieşti . Under the name sponsor Mobitelco they returned to the international stage and won at least the home game against Ironi Ashkelon from four games in the FIBA EuroCup Challenge 2005/06 , after Master Ploiesti had won this competition in the previous season. In the following event, the team, to which Țenter had now also returned, reached the group victory in the preliminary round, tied with the later Cypriot finalist Keravnos Strovolou , but lost the quarter-finals against his national rival Apollon Limassol . In his home Roschnafsky was active as a coach and eventually took over the team the second Cluj association BC Gladiator, whom he described as player-manager in 2009 for promotion to the top league Romanian Divizia A resulted. In addition to the capital Bucharest , Cluj-Napoca was the only Romanian city with more than one first division basketball team. After only five wins in 30 games, the team had to be relegated as the bottom of the table, although Roschnafsky, at almost 40 years of age and just under eight rebounds per game, was still one of the ten best players in this category that season. Țenter, who had become coach of local rivals CSU in 2009, was able to interrupt the series championships in Ploiesti at least in 2011 and bring another championship to Cluj-Napoca. While Roschnafsky's younger son Eduard also shows ambitions as a basketball player at U Cluj-Napoca, Bruno Roschnafsky was presented to the Partidul Puterii Umaniste (PPU), who describes himself as socially liberal, as a candidate for mayor for Cluj-Napoca .

Web links

• Marius Bruno Roschnafsky - Profile on the FIBA ​​Europe website ( English )
• easyCredit BBL - Bruno Roschnafsky - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Bruno Roschnafsky - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ archive.fiba.com: 1990 European Championship for Junior Men / Game: ROMANIA vs SOVIET UNION. FIBA , accessed on February 15, 2016 (English, game statistics). 
2. ↑ archive.fiba.com: 1991 World Championship for Junior Men / Statistics Leaders - Points. FIBA , accessed on February 15, 2016 (English, tournament overview). 
3. ↑ UNIVERSITATEA-SM INVEST / European Cup for Men's Clubs (1992). FIBA Europe , accessed on February 15, 2016 (English, overview of results). 
4. ↑ Schwelmer Baskets spoil the season opening in Trier. Schoenen-Dunk.de, September 30, 2002, accessed on December 16, 2016 (Medien-Info TBB Trier). 
5. ^ Romanian Basketball, Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings - Liga Nationala »Season 2009-2010. eurobasket.com, accessed on February 16, 2016 (English, season summary with statistics). 
6. ^ U13 - Eduard Roschnafsky. CSU Cluj-Napoca , accessed on February 16, 2016 (Romanian). 
7. ↑ Baschetbalistul Bruno Roschnafsky candidează la Primăria Cluj-Napoca. Monitorul de Cluj: MonitorulCj.ro, January 15, 2016, accessed February 16, 2016 (Romanian).