Dieter Kuprella

Dieter Kuprella
Player information
birthday	February 5, 1946
place of birth	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
size	184 cm
position	Shooting Guard
Clubs as active
1966–1968 ASC Gelsenkirchen 1968–1977 TuS 04 Leverkusen
National team
1970-1977	BR Germany	108 games
Clubs as coaches
1977–1982 TuS 04 Leverkusen (A-Youth) 1982–1984 Germany (women) ( AC ) 1986–1991 Bayer Leverkusen (Youth) 1992–1996 ETB SW Essen (Youth) 2004–2008 BBZ 95 Leverkusen 2008–2009 TuS 1882 Opladen (AC)

Dieter Kuprella (born  February 5, 1946 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German basketball coach and former national basketball player . The graduate in business administration is married and has three children. His son Helge was also a player in the Bundesliga basketball league , including in Rhöndorf , and after finishing his time as a Bundesliga player, he also worked as a basketball coach.

player

Dieter Kuprella, a former youth national player of the DBB and youth selection player of the West German Basketball Association (WBV), who had played three seasons in the newly founded Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) until 1968/1969 for ASC Gelsenkirchen , was one of the first " Success Team ”from record champions Bayer Leverkusen, who played in the basketball league from 1968/1969. With the "Farbenstädtern" he won the club's first four championship titles (1970–1972 and 1976) and was also able to celebrate four times the cup (1970, 1971, 1974 and 1976). As a national team he took to the host country in 1972 Federal Republic of Germany at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich in part. To this end, he was appointed by the Federal Coaching Council of the German Basketball Federation (DBB) in October 1968 , chaired by Anton Kartak , at that time sports warden of the DBB, for the fifty-member "Olympic squad 1972", with the comrades of his Bundesliga team, Dietrich Keller , Jochen Pollex , Wolfgang Schmidt , Norbert Thimm and Largo Wandel, nominated in the “ Kartak List ”. In October 1971, Kuprella suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon . This serious sports injury interrupted his preparation for the final phase of the DBB Olympic team's intensive training for several months. In 1972 in Munich, Kuprella, then 26 years old, played eight games in the Olympic basketball tournament, scoring 22 points in 19 fouls whistled against him.

Trainer

After finishing his playing career he worked very successfully for his club in Leverkusen: 1977 as coach of the 2nd team. As a youth coach, 1977 to 1982 and 1986 to 1991. With the Leverkusen A-Juniors, he was German champion four times (1980–1982 and 1990). From 1982 to 1984 he worked as an assistant coach for the women's national basketball team , together with national coach Tony DiLeo . From 1992 to 1996 he worked as a youth coach for the ETB Essen . In 2004 he returned to Leverkusen as a trainer and trained, among other things, the regional league women of BBZ 95 Leverkusen, which merged with the women's basketball Bundesliga club SV Union Opladen to form SG BBZ Opladen. Kuprella himself had given up the coaching position for women at the beginning of 2008 after an illness and at the beginning of the next season became assistant coach of the men's team of the former second division club TuS 1882 Opladen in the 2nd regional league.

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• " Basketball " - "Official body of the German Basketball Federation" (born 1959 to 1975) - ISSN  0178-9279

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Florian Rothenberg: A basketball player from the very beginning. Rheinische Post , February 20, 2009, accessed on November 29, 2009 (article with interview). 
2. ↑ Helge Kuprella (Dragons Rhöndorf) player statistics ( memento from July 26, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ^ Letter from Anton Kartak, Vice President of the German Basketball Federation and Chairman of the National Coaching Council, on October 10, 1968, to the fifty basketball players nominated for the "1972 Olympic Squad".
4. ^ Dieter Kuprella Biography and Olympic Results. sports-reference.com, accessed May 7, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Sebastian Laule: Like on a roller coaster. (No longer available online.) Rheinische Post , April 9, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 29, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.