Jan Jagla

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Jan Jagla
Jan Jagla 2019.jpg

Jan Jagla, 2019

Player information
Full name Jan-Hendrik Jagla
birthday June 25, 1981
place of birth Berlin , Germany
size 213 cm
position Power forward
college Pennsylvania State
NBA draft undrafted ( 2004 )
Club information
society FC Bayern Munich
league Basketball Bundesliga
Jersey number 45
Clubs as active
1999–2001 TuS Lichterfelde Berlin 2001–2004 Penn State Nittany Lions 2004 Panellinios Athens 2004–2005 Artland Dragons 2005–2006 Drac Inca Mallorca 2006–2007 Türk Telekom Ankara 2007–2009 Joventut de Badalona 2009–2010 Asseco Prokom Gdynia 2010–2011 Türk Telekom Ankara 2011–2013 FC Bayern Munich 2013–2014 Alba Berlin 2014–2015 FC Bayern Munich GermanyGermany
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National team 1
2003-2012 Germany 141 games
1 As of September 11, 2012

Jan-Hendrik Jagla (born June 25, 1981 in Berlin ) is a former German national basketball player who was most recently under contract with Bayern Munich .

Jagla, at 2.13 m as tall as his famous compatriot Dirk Nowitzki , distinguished himself as a player with his agility and he had good technique. His great strength were middle distance throws. He played on the small forward / power forward , sometimes in the center position.

life and career

Club career

Jagla started at TuS Neukölln in 1865 where he played from the age of seven, after his 18th birthday he moved to TuS Lichterfelde.

Jagla began his professional basketball career with the Bundesliga second division club TuS Lichterfelde Berlin . There he played from 1999 to 2001 and most recently made 15.7 points per game. At the same time he was able to gain his first experience in the 1st Bundesliga with Alba Berlin . From 2001 he attended Pennsylvania State University and played for the college team, the Penn State Nittany Lions , in the NCAA . During the course of his four-year studies, he steadily improved. In his last season 2003/2004, he brought it to 13.4 points and 7.9 rebounds per game.

In the summer of 2004 he moved back to Europe to join the Greek first division promoted Panellionis Athens. But he didn't really like it there and in 2004 he switched to the Bundesliga club Artland Dragons from Quakenbrück . In the summer of 2005 Jagla was invited to the Los Angeles Clippers training camp, but was removed from the final roster. He spent the 2005/2006 season with the Spanish second division club Drac Inca Mallorca. From the 2006/2007 season he played for Türk Telekom Ankara. In spring he was elected to the All Star Team of the top twelve foreigners, which the Turkish national team defeated in Istanbul on March 25, 2007.

On July 10, 2007 he moved to the Spanish ACB league to DKV Joventut Badalona and stayed there until 2009. He won the national cup competition and the international ULEB Cup there in the first year . In 2010 Jagla reached the quarter-finals in the Euroleague with Asseco Prokom Gdynia and became Polish champions with this club.

Jan Jagla, 2012

After a year with his former employer, Türk Telekom Ankara , Jagla returned to Germany for the 2011/12 season, where he joined the newly promoted BBL FC Bayern Munich .

Jagla played in Munich until the summer of 2013. For the 2013/2014 season , he did not receive a new contract and then moved within the league to Alba Berlin . There he signed a contract for a year. For the 2014/2015 season, Jagla was unable to agree on a new contract with those responsible at Alba Berlin, left the club after a year and rejoined his old club, FC Bayern Munich.

In July 2015, Jan Jagla announced that he would end his career as a professional basketball player.

In the old man's area he ran for TSV 1860 Rosenheim and became German champions with the team.

National team

Jagla made his national team debut with a convincing performance in mid-2003. He also qualified for the 2005 European Championship, but did not make it into the final squad for the actual tournament in Serbia and Montenegro .

For the 2006 World Basketball Championship in Japan , he finally made it into the tournament team. However, he was only allowed to intervene in 9 national team games for 36 minutes, in which he scored 13 points. At the World Cup, he played his 40th game for the German national team.

At the 2007 European Championships in Spain Jagla was back in the squad. In the course of the tournament he scored 6.2 points and 4.9 rebounds per game with an average of 14.2 minutes.

In August 2008 he took part with the German national team at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, for which Germany qualified with third place in the qualifying tournament with a 96-82 victory in the game for third place over Puerto Rico in Athens. In the tournament he played an average of 12.8 minutes per game and scored an average of 5.8 points and 4.6 rebounds.

A highlight in his national team career was the last preliminary round match against Latvia at the 2009 European Championships in Poland. Germany was only allowed to lose this game by a maximum of 8 points, but was behind with 11 points shortly before the end. Jagla first hit a 3-point throw and then converted 2 free throws after a foul, so that Germany only lost with 6 points and thus reached the second round.

successes

After the playing career

After the end of his career as a player, Jagla worked temporarily as an expert on basketball broadcasts on the TV station ProSieben MAXX .

Private life

Jagla's wife Ivana is the daughter of the former national coach Svetislav Pešić . His brother-in-law is the former national player Marko Pešić .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statistics of the German national basketball team
  2. ^ ART THOMPSON III: Clippers' Tabuse wants more . In: The Orange County Register . ( ocregister.com [accessed January 13, 2017]).
  3. Basketball-Bund.de: Jan Jagla is Polish champion ( memento from September 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), article on the website of the German Basketball Association from May 31, 2010, accessed on June 4, 2010
  4. faz.net: "The hardest thing in life is to stop" , accessed on July 15, 2015
  5. https://www.ovb-online.de/sport/regionalsport/sechziger-wieder-deutscher-meister-9966478.html
  6. https://www.ran.de/basketball/news/jan-jagla-macht-den-bayern-check-murcia-wird-bayerns-haertester-gegner-100471
  7. Here Mrs. Jagla explains the family duel . ( bz-berlin.de [accessed on January 13, 2017]).
  8. Alba Berlins Jan Jagla: That's why I left my father-in-law . In: BILD.de . ( bild.de [accessed on January 13, 2017]).