Harald Stein (basketball coach)

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Harald Stein (born November 1, 1966 in Braunschweig ) is a qualified basketball trainer and former national basketball player.

Harald Stein (center) in 2018

Life

His father is Eckhard "Ecki" Stein , the founding father of SG Braunschweig. Harald Stein acquired the A license in 1990 and graduated in 1991 from the trainer academy in Cologne as a qualified basketball trainer.

Player career

Stein was used as a winger . His specialty were distance throws, his hit rate was just under 50 percent. He worked for the basketball Bundesliga teams from SG Braunschweig , TuS Bramsche , SV Oberelchingen , MTV Gießen and SSV Ulm 1846 . With Braunschweig he rose in 1987 at the side of his father Eckhard (coach) and his brother Lothar (playmaker and in a team with his father player- coach ) in the 2nd Bundesliga. The first season ended as the table sixth of the northern season, since the ASC Göttingen withdrew from the first division and other candidates waived, Braunschweig rose in 1988 to the 1st Bundesliga. With Ulm Stein was German runner-up in 1998, with SG Braunschweig and MTV Gießen he reached the cup final . In 2003 he ended his playing career with the second division TV Langen . In his Bundesliga career he was four times the most successful German basket thrower.

National team

Between 1989 and 1993 Stein came to six appearances in the German national basketball team .

Coaching career

During his active playing career, Stein, who completed his studies at the Cologne Trainer Academy of the German Olympic Sports Confederation in 1991 as a qualified basketball trainer, also worked as a trainer and coached the youth of the SG Braunschweig from 1981 to 1994 and the youth of the SV Oberelchingen. From 2003 to 2008 Stein worked as the sporting director of the Basketball Competence Center in Central Hesse (BBLZ) in Gießen and from 2006 also trained the team of the BBLZ (Basketball Competence Center) in the youth basketball league (NBBL) in this position . With this team he reached the NBBL play-offs in the 2007/2008 season. From 2004 (and until 2008) he was also a fee-based association trainer at the Hessian Basketball Association (HBV) and was responsible, among other things, for the Hessen selection.

In 2008 he moved to Frankfurt to the Fraport Skyliners , where he was the full-time head of youth and school development and trained the ProB and NBBL teams as head coach. Also in 2008, Stein became the assistant coach of the German U16 national team. In 2010 he took over the U-16 national team as head coach and achieved eighth place at the 2011 European Championship and fifth place at the 2012 European Championship. In 2013 he gave up his post at the Skyliners Frankfurt and became a full-time junior national coach. In 2015 he was a member of a committee that was formed jointly by the German Basketball Association , the Basketball Bundesliga, the 2nd Basketball Bundesliga and the regional associations to advise leagues and associations on top-level sports.

As the national coach of the German U18 national team, Stein led the DBB selection to win the Albert Schweitzer tournament in spring 2016 . It was the host country's first title at the 28th edition of the event. In December 2016, the U18 team finished fourth in the European Championship under his leadership. His work for the DBB ended in August 2018, in the same year Stein switched to the Hungarian basketball school Vasas Akadémiá as a trainer, where he took on tasks such as training youth players and introducing talent to the adult field. Stein also became director at Vasas.

successes

  • 4 All-Star-Game-Nominations 1. Bundesliga
  • 4 times most successful German thrower in the 1st Bundesliga

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Rüdiger Franzke: Rist in front of a high hurdle . In: Wedel-Schulauer-Tageblatt . A. Beig Verlag, Pinneberg November 2, 1987.
  3. By Ute Berndt: Stein brothers come to the basketball club . ( braunschweiger-zeitung.de [accessed on October 14, 2017]).
  4. GIESSEN 46ers | Harald Stein leaves the BBLZ - GIESSEN 46ers. Retrieved October 14, 2017 .
  5. Harald Stein: Full-time junior national coach. German Basketball Association, accessed October 14, 2017 .
  6. Competence team for the benefit of basketball. German Basketball Federation, accessed on December 29, 2018 .
  7. AST 2016: Germany first tournament winner! In: www.basketball-bund.de. German Basketball Association, accessed April 2, 2016 .
  8. EM: U18 boys finish fourth. German Basketball Association, accessed October 14, 2017 .
  9. Fabian Villmeter is the new junior national coach. In: basketball-bund.de. Retrieved September 26, 2018 .
  10. Angol mesteredző segíti a Vasas szakmai stábját . In: BB1.hu . May 25, 2018 ( bb1.hu [accessed September 26, 2018]).
  11. Csapataink - Vasas Kosárlabda Akadémia. Accessed January 21, 2020 .