Erich Tecka

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Erich Tecka (born July 25, 1948 in Vienna ; † June 27, 2020 ) was an Austrian basketball player . The 2.02 meter tall wing and center player is considered one of the best players in Austrian basketball history .

Career

Tecka switched to basketball in May 1965 at the age of 16 after playing soccer for Austria Wien . At the end of 1965 he was appointed to the junior national team. In his youth he played at BC Ostarrichi Vienna. With EK Engelmann and UBSC Vienna , he won the Austrian championship 12 times between 1968 and 1980, his personal best in a Bundesliga game is 88 points scored. In 1969 he was about to move to the top Greek team Olympiacos Piraeus and should have accepted Greek citizenship for it. The Austrian association president put a stop to the change. In February 1972, with 17 points, he was one of the main contributors to UBSC Vienna's 86:85 European Cup victory over Real Madrid, which was classified as a sensation. However, with Vienna he lost the second leg in the quarter-finals of the national championship cup with 74:98. Tecka played for UBSC until 1980, then in the Bundesliga for BK Klosterneuburg , ABC / BBC Wels and Tyrolia Vienna.

Between 1967 and 1988, Tecka completed 129 international A matches for Austria and was the team captain of the ÖBV selection , with which he rose from group C to group A within a few months in 1977 and took part in the European Championship in Belgium. Tecka scored an average of 21 points as the best points collector in Austria at the EC 77 , but the team remained without a win during the tournament. In 1991 Tecka was the initiator of the cross-border super league, in which Austrian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Slovak and Czech teams also took part. He headed the league as chairman. He was executive vice-president of the Austrian basketball league and then its president until June 2004. From 1993 to 1997 he was Vice President of the Austrian Basketball Association, from June 2003 to February 2005 Tecka was once again the Executive Vice President of the Austrian Basketball Association.

In the summer of 2018 he was responsible for the selection of Austria in the age group over 70 at the European Championship in Maribor as a trainer.

Personal

Tecka trained as a machine fitter and graduated as a mechanical engineer from a technical college in Vienna. Later he worked for a company that sold doors.

He had two children with his first wife, Brigitte.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commercial register information Naue Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH FN 263545 t: FB new entry 16.06.2005. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i The Mister Basketball of Austria . In: Manfred Schnurrer & Hanns Vanura (eds.): Austria's basketball history (s) . Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-200-06297-9 , pp. 104-107 .
  3. ↑ SORRY FOR THE LEGEND ERICH TECKA. In: Austrian Basketball Association. Retrieved June 29, 2020 (Austrian German).
  4. ↑ Doors opened, doors installed - derStandard.at. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
  5. ^ Pearl basket. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Erich Tecka | European Championship for Men (1977) | FIBA Europe. In: www.fibaeurope.com. Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Sportily healthy, financially ailing | Courier. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
  8. Jump up to the basketball super league with a mini squad | Courier. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
  9. ^ Wiener Zeitung Online: Bears, Panthers and Pirates - Basketball: Difficult cup ticket for Kapfenberg . In: More Sports - Sports - News - Wiener Zeitung Online . ( wienerzeitung.at [accessed on November 7, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Basketball: Steger new ÖBL President - derStandard.at. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
  11. ↑ news networld Internet Service GmbH: - A bang in basketball: Erich Tecka is ÖBV “Vice”. February 22, 2005, accessed July 19, 2016 .
  12. ^ FIMBA EM in Maribor - Basketball Austria. Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Tecka, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2020