Christian Held (basketball coach)

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Christian Held (born July 6, 1988 in Aachen ) is a German basketball coach .

career

Ralph Held's son moved with the family from Aachen to Trier at the age of three , where his father worked as a trainer. At the age of 15, Held and his parents moved to Oldenburg after his father had started a coaching position there.

Christian Held worked as a youth coach in the youth division of the Bundesliga club EWE Baskets Oldenburg and was head coach of the Lower Saxony U19 team when he succeeded Mladen Drijenčić as coach of the Oldenburg youth development team, Baskets Akademie Weser-Ems / Oldenburger TB (BAWE), in late March 2015 the 2nd Bundesliga ProB  was. Drijencic had been promoted to the Oldenburg Bundesliga coaching post. Held took over BAWE before the start of the quarter-finals against Weißenhorn and led the Oldenburg team to win the ProB title and thus to repeat the previous year's triumph, at that time still under Drijencic's leadership. In the 2015/16 season, Held's team was eliminated in the ProB round of 16.

For the 2016/17 season he switched to the 2nd Bundesliga ProA as an assistant coach for the Gladiators Trier . In mid-January 2018, Trier announced that Held would succeed Marco van den Berg  as head coach at the beginning of the 2018/19 game year . In July 2018, Held completed a three-year coaching course at the European Basketball Association . His term of office in Trier ended in April 2020. He switched to league rivals Rostock Seawolves in summer 2020 , and became assistant coach to Dirk Bauermann at Mecklenburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: Basketball: Christian Held keeps Oldenburg busy . In: NWZonline . ( nwzonline.de [accessed December 15, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Marek Fritzen: Gladiators Trier: The future head coach Christian Held talks about his goals. Retrieved January 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: Basketball: New head coach relies on Drijencic's formula for success . In: NWZonline . ( nwzonline.de [accessed December 15, 2017]).
  4. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Oldenburg is ProB Champion 2014/2015. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Christian Ruhe: Baskets Akademie Weser-Ems defends title in ProB. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Christian Ruhe: Defeat in Nördlingen means play-offs. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  7. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Gladiators sign Christian Held as assistant coach. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  8. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Change of coach for the coming season: Marco van den Berg will not renew his contract - Christian Held will take over RÖMERSTROM Gladiators 2018/2019. Retrieved January 15, 2018 .
  9. ↑ https://www.basketball-bund.de/news/zwei-deutsche-trainer-erhalten-fiba-europe-coaching-certificate-189013
  10. ↑ Farewell after four years: RÖMERSTROM Gladiators Trier and Head Coach Christian Held will go their separate ways in the future. In: Gladiators Trier. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Christian Held is the new assistant trainer at SEAWOLVES. Retrieved on July 2, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Hero, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen