Eric Fongué

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Eric Etienne Fongué (born February 25, 1991 in Zurich ) is a Swiss basketball player .

career

 Fongué, who  comes from Dietikon and whose father comes from Cameroon , received his basketball training at BC KS Limmattal and GC Zurich Basketball. He had previously played handball at HC Dietikon-Urdorf. In the 2008/09 season he made his debut in the National League B at GC Wildcats and continued his basketball training from summer 2009 in the Spanish Canarias Basketball Academy, where he stayed for a year, followed by a short stop at the German club BG 74 Göttingen , before returning to the GC Wildcats, which in the 2010/11 season meanwhile competed in the National League A. "From an athletic point of view, he was one of the greatest talents that has ever trained in Zurich," Zurich's trainer Riet Lareida was quoted by the Tages-Anzeiger in November 2011 .

For the 2011/12 season, the 1.97 meter tall winger moved to Western Washington University (second NCAA division) in Bellingham near Seattle in the United States . There he took part in training, but was not used in any game. Fongué changed universities and was part of the team at Whatcom Community College, also located in Bellingham, from 2012 to 2014. In his second year there (2013/14 season) he achieved an average of 11.4 points and 5.7 rebounds per encounter, for the 2014/15 season he moved to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (second NCAA division). For the team, he played 26 games during the 2014/15 season and recorded an average of 6.8 points and 4.0 rebounds per encounter.

Fongué returned to his home country after four years in the United States and joined the national league team Friborg Olympic  , with whom he became national champion in 2016. Due to injury, he only played ten NLA games in the 2016/17 season, during the 2017 summer break he was signed by Friborg's NLA rival Union Neuchâtel . Also due to an injury, Fongué was not used for Union and moved to BBC Monthey in January 2018 , for which he played eleven games until the end of the 2017/18 season.

At the beginning of July 2018, the NLA club Vevey Riviera Basket signed him. In the summer of 2019 he was signed by Basket-Club Boncourt .

National team

In 2010 and 2011, Fongué took part in the U20 national team of Switzerland in B-European championship tournaments, in 2017 he played in the jersey of the A-national team during the European Championship qualification.

family

Eric Fongué is the brother of sprinter Rolf Fongué and handball player Thierry Fongué .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eric Fongué, you Cameroun à l'Alaska. Retrieved October 28, 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ Eric Fongué new at BBC Monthey | Swiss basketball. Retrieved October 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Everyone's talent. One brother is a sprinter, the other is an NLA handball player . In: tagesanzeiger.ch/ . ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on October 28, 2018]).
  4. ↑ The daring dream of the NBA . In: Freiburger Nachrichten - News from Freiburg . ( freiburger-nachrichten.ch [accessed on October 28, 2018]).
  5. ↑ The dietician Eric Fongué does not give up his dream of a professional career . In: az Limmattaler Zeitung . ( limmattalerzeitung.ch [accessed on October 28, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Via detours and with self-insight . In: tagesanzeiger.ch/ . ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on October 28, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Eric Fongue - 2011-12 Men's Basketball Roster - Western Washington University. Retrieved October 28, 2018 .
  8. ^ Western Wash., 2011-12 Men's Basketball Division II. In: Archived Team-By-Team Final Statistics. NCAA, accessed October 28, 2018 .
  9. ↑ University of Alaska Fairbanks inks Whatcom's Eric Fongue and Skagit's Isaac Ladines | NWACSports. Retrieved October 28, 2018 (American English).
  10. ↑ Alas. Fairbanks, 2014-15 Men's Basketball Division II. In: Archived Team-By-Team Final Statistics. NCAA, accessed October 28, 2018 .
  11. ↑ FOBC: Demarco Cox et Eric Fongue dernières recrues pour le Friborg Olympic - Friborg Olympic Basket Club. Retrieved October 28, 2018 (fr-fr).
  12. ↑ Basket: Friborg Olympic sacré pour la 16e fois de son histoire . In: RTSSport.ch . ( rts.ch [accessed on October 28, 2018]).
  13. ↑ https://www.laliberte.ch/news/sports/basketball/eric-fongue-et-kevin-monteiro-%E2%80%A8a-union-neuchatel-397945
  14. ↑ https://www.rtn.ch/rtn/Sports/Basketball/20180117-Eric-Fongue-quitte-Union.html
  15. ↑ Players | Swiss basketball. Retrieved October 28, 2018 .
  16. ↑ L'elixir Sàrl - Montreux: VRB - Les actualités du Vevey Riviera Basket. Retrieved October 28, 2018 (French).
  17. ↑ https://swiss.basketball/news/2019/07/16/un-nouveau-joueur-pour-le-bc-boncourt
  18. ↑ Eric Etienne Fongué profile, U20 European Championship Men 2011 | FIBA.COM . In: FIBA.COM . ( fiba.com [accessed October 28, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Fongué, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fongué, Eric Etienne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich