Federico Kammerichs

Federico Kammerichs
Player information
Full name	Guillermo Federico Kammerichs
Nickname	El Yacaré
birthday	June 21, 1980
place of birth	Goya, Argentina
size	205 cm
position	Center / Power Forward
NBA draft	2002 , 51. Pick Portland Trail Blazers
Club information
society	Juventud Unida de Goya
league	Regional league Argentina
Clubs as active
1998–2001 Ferro Carril Oeste 2001–2002 Club Ourense Baloncesto 2002–2005 Pamesa Valencia 2005–2006 Akasvayu Girona 2006–2007 Bruesa GBC 2007–2008 Polaris Murcia 2008–2011 Club Regatas de Corrientes 2011–2012 CR Flamengo Rio de Janeiro 2012–2013 Club Regatas de Corrientes 2014 Juventud Unida de Goya 2014–2015 CA Unión de Goya 00000
National team
2003-2012	Argentina

Federico Kammerich's medal table
Basketball (men)
Argentina
Olympic games
bronze	2008 Beijing
American Championship
silver	2003 San Juan
silver	2005 Santo Domingo
silver	2007 Las Vegas
bronze	2009 San Juan
gold	2011 Mar del Plata

Guillermo Federico Kammerichs (born June 21, 1980 in Goya , Corrientes ) is a former German - Argentine basketball player . After starting his career in his home country, the German-born Kammerichs went to Europe and played seven seasons in the Spanish ACB league , where the Argentinian international played with a German player pass. As a national player, Kammerichs won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games and was American champion in 2011 in Mar del Plata, along with other medals at previous events of this competition. With club teams, Kammerichs won the ULEB Cup in 2002/03 , the Liga de las Américas in 2011, the Liga Sudamericana in 2012 and the Argentine championship in 2013. Although he subsequently resigned, he was reactivated at the beginning of 2014 for clubs from his hometown Goya, where he played in regional leagues for another year and a half in Argentina.

Career

After Luis Scola, of the same age, had left Ferro Carril Oeste, who were among the strongest South American club teams in the 1980s, for Spain, the 18-year-old Kammerichs moved up to the men's team of the club from the capital Buenos Aires . After three years, the Kammerichs also moved to Spain in 2001 and played for the first division relegated from Ourense in the LEB Oro . In the semi-final series of the play-offs for promotion, Ourense missed promotion against CB Lucentum Alicante . The following season, Kammerichs played in the top Spanish league ACB after he moved to Pamesa BC from Valencia . Previously, Kammerichs had been selected in the 2002 NBA Draft by the Portland Trail Blazers, in which, however, he did not earn a place in the squad and never play in the highest endowed professional league NBA . In the ULEB Cup 2002/03 , Kammerichs and his new team from Valencia, which also included his compatriots Fabricio Oberto and Alejandro Montecchia , won the first time this competition was held. In the Spanish championship, Valencia reached the final series, in which they did not win against ULEB Euroleague 2002/03 winner FC Barcelona . With his two club mates Oberto and Montecchia, Kammerichs played at the Torneo de las Américas 2003 for the first time at an important tournament in the Argentine men's national team . Defending champion and runner-up Argentina secured a semi-final victory over Canada to return to the Olympic basketball tournament that had been missed four years earlier. The high defeat in the final against the United States , which the then Argentinian selection had defeated a year earlier at the World Cup in front of their audience in Indianapolis , was therefore of no consequence.

In the ULEB Euroleague 2003/04 , Valencia lost the home game against Maccabi Tel Aviv in the second round only on matchday one , but did not play for the second leg because of the unsafe situation in Israel after the killing of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmad Yasin and had this game handed in without a fight. Valencia had almost reached the Final Four tournament after their home win on the last matchday of the second round, when Žalgiris Kaunas, with a three-point lead and free throws, was three seconds before the end of regular time before a win in Tel Aviv. But both free throws were awarded and after a long throw-in, Derrick Sharp was able to save Maccabi into extra time with a buzzer beater , which made the home team victorious and had also won the direct comparison against the Spanish team tied on points. At the Final Four in front of their own audience, the Israeli team was able to win the title superiorly. After finishing third in the regular season of the Spanish championship, Valencia lost to Unicaja Málaga in the first play-off round . At the Olympic basketball tournament in Athens, Kammerichs was not nominated when the Argentine selection won the Olympic title for the first time. In the 2004/05 ULEB Cup , Valencia lost the semi-finals against eventual title winners Lietuvos rytas Vilnius and even missed the play-offs for the ACB league title after finishing ninth. At the American Championships in 2005 , Argentina and Kammerichs lost the final against Brazil and won the silver medal like two years earlier.

After Oberto moved to the NBA in 2005, Kammerichs also left Valencia and played for Akasvayu from Girona in the 2005/06 season . The club reached the play-offs in seventh place in the regular season for the first time in seven years, in which they were eliminated in the first round against runner-up TAU Cerámica around Kammerichs' national team- mates Luis Scola and Pablo Prigioni . After Kammerichs was again not represented in the Argentine squad at the 2006 World Cup , he also moved to the Basque Country for the 2006/07 season and played in San Sebastián for Bruesa Gipuzkoa. However, the first division climber achieved only eight wins this season in 34 games and initially rose from last place in the table. At the 2007 American Championships , the Argentine selection with Kammerichs won the silver medal for the third time in a row when they lost to hosts United States alone in the second round and final. In the 2007/08 season Kammerichs reached with Polaris World from Murcia in twelfth place relegation in the ACB league. At the 2008 Olympic Games , Kammerichs was now set up in a global final for the national team, which as defending champion lost the opening game against Lithuania . They then remained unbeaten for five games before losing 81-101 in the semifinals to the United States, which had not won a global finals since the 2000 Olympic gold medal in Sydney. Argentina secured the bronze medal with a success over Lithuania in the "small final".

For the 2008/09 season Kammerichs returned to his home country and played in the local province of Corrientes in the northeast for Club Regatas (CR) from the city of Corrientes . At the Torneo Súper 8 at the beginning of the season, CR was able to win the title for the first time and Kammerichs was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of this competition. In the Liga Sudamericana they were not successful as defending champions and in the Liga Nacional de Básquetbol (LNB) they never made it to the semi-finals for the title in the following three years. However, you could win the Liga de las Américas 2011, in the Kammerichs was awarded as MVP. After the Argentine national team won the bronze medal at the American Championships in 2009 after a semi-final defeat against hosts Puerto Rico , Kammerichs got only short playing times at the 2010 World Championships when the Argentine selection missed the medal ranks after the quarter-final defeat against Lithuania. With a win against defending champion Spain you reached the fifth place. Ten years after Neuquén 2001 , when Argentina laid the foundation for the Olympic victory three years later after missing out on the Olympic Games in 2000, the country hosted a continental final again at the 2011 American Championships . El Alma , as the national team is also called, was able to make up for an intermediate round defeat against Brazil, who equalized in the final against the same opponent and, in addition to winning the tournament, also secured participation in the Olympics. After winning the title, Kammerichs moved to another “regatta club” and played in Rio de Janeiro for Flamengo in the 2011/12 season together with Marcelo Machado . In the Brazilian championship, however, it was enough for the team after the lost play-off semi-final series only to fourth place. At the 2012 Olympic Games , the Argentine selection also lost the "small final" for the bronze medal against Russia after losing in the semi-final against defending champion United States . After Kammerichs' return to CR Corrientes, he won the Sudamericana League with the club in December 2012 and also remained unbeaten in the national LNB in ​​the 2013 final series and was able to win the championship title for the club for the first time. Then Kammerichs announced his retirement from competitive sports, but in February 2014 " el Yacaré " was persuaded to play for Juventud Unida from his hometown Goya in a regional Argentinian league.

Web links

• Federico Kammerichs - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• Kammerichs, FEDERICO - Player profile on the website of the Euro League (English)
• ACB.COM: F. Kammerichs - player profile on the websites of the League ACB ( Spanish )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Juventud Unida presentará el plantel para Argentino de Clubes. Diario Norte: NorteCorrientes.com, February 20, 2014, accessed August 14, 2014 (Spanish). 
2. ↑ Pamesa Valencia 78-76 KRKA Novo Mesto. ULEB , April 24, 2003, accessed on August 14, 2014 (English, match report). 
3. ↑ Hasta pronto, Yacaré. Ferro Carril Oeste , July 15, 2013, accessed August 14, 2014 (Spanish).