Daniel Clark (basketball player)

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Basketball player
Daniel Clark
Daniel Clark
Player information
Full name Daniel Mark Clark
Nickname Dan
birthday September 16, 1988
place of birth Greenwich (ENG),
United Kingdom
size 210 cm
position Power Forward /
Center
Club information
society CAI Saragossa
league League ACB
Jersey number 0
Clubs as active
2003–2013 CB Estudiantes → 2007–08 CB Breogán → 2009 Leche Río Breogán Since 2013 CAI SaragossaSpainSpain
SpainSpain
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National team 1
Since 02008 Great Britain 52
1 As of July 1, 2012

Daniel Mark Clark (born September 16, 1988 in Greenwich , Greater London ) is a British basketball player . Clark has been playing in Spain since 2003 and made his debut in the highest Spanish league ACB for CB Estudiantes in Madrid in December 2006 . He is a member of the UK national team and participated in the 2011 European Championship finals and the 2012 Olympic Games in his hometown of London.

Career

Like many of his later British national team colleagues, Clark left his home country early, which has little tradition in basketball and therefore few playful challenges, especially in the youth field. At the age of 15 he switched to the youth academy of the traditional Spanish first division club CB Estudiantes from the Spanish capital Madrid. After Clark was counted among the five best players in the youth tournament for the English selection in Division B at the U18 European Championship in 2006, he made his debut in the 2006/07 season at the age of 18 for the first time in the senior team of Estudiantes in the ACB league. In this season he was used six more times in the professional team. At the end of the season, the club narrowly missed the play-offs for the Spanish championship with ninth place and was not placed among the top eight for the first time since 1990. In the following two seasons, Clark was only awarded a little at CB Estudiantes, but at an early stage to the lower-class Galician basketball club Leche Río Breogán from Lugo in the LEB Oro .

In the 2009/10 season, Clark stayed with CB Estudiantes and was used in the majority of the games with almost twelve minutes of playing time per game. After Estudiantes had played against relegation in the previous two seasons, they reached the play-offs again for the first time after seventh place in the final table of the regular season. There you stayed in the first round against the future champion Caja Laboral without a win. Clark had now become a permanent member of the British national team, which had been reorganized in 2006 for the 2012 Olympic Games in Clark’s hometown of London and replaced the previous national teams of England, Scotland and Wales at the highest level. This team again qualified for the 2011 European Championship finals in the summer of 2010 . In the second most important European club competition Eurocup 2010/11 , Asefa Estudiantes reached the quarter-finals, while they again missed the play-off places in the Spanish championship in the 2010/11 season. With the British national team he achieved the first two victories in a final round at the European Championship finals in Lithuania in 2011, but after five games you had to leave the championship fights after the first round. For the 2011/12 season, things went even worse for the eternal first division club Estudiantes in the Spanish championship. The season ended in penultimate place in the table and would have been relegated from the highest class if the potential promoted CB Gran Canaria had not been refused the first division license for economic reasons. Clark, on the other hand, was able to realize his dream of the Olympic Games in his hometown, but in the Olympic basketball tournament they only achieved one victory in five games in the preliminary round and were eliminated before the medal round. With his club Estudiantes Clark managed to stay in the league in twelfth place in the 2012/13 season. He then moved to the league competitor CAI Basket 2002 from Saragossa .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ England's Dan Clark One To Watch. FIBA Europe , August 4, 2006, accessed on August 21, 2012 .
  2. ^ Romania Claim Gold Medal With Win Over Estonia. FIBA Europe , August 8, 2006, accessed on August 21, 2012 .
  3. ↑ FEB: Daniel Mark Clark. FEB.es , accessed on August 21, 2012 (Spanish, player statistics).
personal data
SURNAME Clark, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clark, Daniel Mark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenwich (London) , England