Jules Akodo

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Basketball player
Jules Akodo
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2017
Player information
Full name Jules Christian Dang Akodo
birthday May 2, 1996
place of birth Yaoundé , Cameroon
size 188 cm
position construction
Clubs as active
2011–2014 KK Union Olimpija 2014–2015 Skyliners Frankfurt II 2015–2016 KK Škofja Loka 2016–2017 CB Miraflores 2016–2017 → Club Basket Burgos 2002 2017–2018 Skyliners Frankfurt 2018–2019 London City Royals 2019– London Lions00 SloveniaSlovenia
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National team
Great Britain

Jules Christian Dang Akodo (born May 2, 1996 ) is a British basketball player of Cameroon  descent.

career

Akodo grew up in London and came into contact with basketball as a student at Stockwell Park High School. At the age of 14 he moved to the youth department of the top Slovenian club KK Union Olimpija in Ljubljana . During the 2013/14 season he received his first short appearances in the Slovenian first division.

For the 2014/15 season, Akodo went to the youth division of the German Bundesliga club Skyliners Frankfurt , played for the U19 team in the youth basketball league  and the second men's team of the Hesse in the 2nd Bundesliga ProB .

Akodo left Frankfurt after a year, followed by positions at the Slovenian first division club KK Škofja Loka , where he posted an average of 8.6 points, and at the Spanish second division club CB Miraflores in Burgos , for whom he scored an average of 1.2 points in 16 games this season. During his time there, Akodo also played for the fourth division club Basket Burgos 2002 thanks to a second game right (26 games: 14.9 points on average).

At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, Akodo initially played in Burgos, then moved back to the Skyliners Frankfurt in October. He came back to the second men's team in the ProB and was also included in the extended Bundesliga squad. At the beginning of December 2017 he was used for the first time in the basketball Bundesliga  . At the beginning of November 2018, Akodo left Frankfurt and moved to the British first division club London City Royals. Until then he had played a total of eleven Bundesliga games and played primarily in Frankfurt's second team, for which he averaged 14.4 points per use in the 2nd Bundesliga ProB in the 2017/18 season (best scorer of the team ahead of Isaac Bonga ), 4.9 assists, 3.9 rebounds and two ball wins (in 20 games) as well as 7.2 points, 3.8 basket assists, 2.8 rebounds and 2.2 ball wins per game in five matches in the 2018/19 season.

In autumn 2019 Akodo moved within the English league to the City Royals' city rivals, the London Lions .

National team

Akodo ran in the junior area for the British national teams and took part in several European championships and in spring 2014 in the Albert Schweitzer tournament  .

In the summer of 2017, he played his first full international match for Great Britain against Ukraine . He was part of the British squad for the 2017 European Championship , but was not used during the tournament.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player Spotlight: Jules Dang Akodo - EABL . In: EABL . November 3, 2014 ( eabl.org [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Jules Akodo Basketball Player Profile, Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt, News, BBL stats, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards - eurobasket . In: www.eurobasket.com . ( eurobasket.com [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  3. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Andrew Bock and Jules Dang Akodo are the newcomers to the Juniors team. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
  4. ^ Diario de Burgos: Jules Akodo, el primer vinculado . In: Diario de Burgos . ( diariodeburgos.es [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  5. ^ Federación Española de Baloncesto - Competiciones FEB. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
  6. ^ Federación Española de Baloncesto - Competiciones FEB. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
  7. ↑ FRAPORT SKYLINERS Juniors sign Jules Christian Dang Akodo | FRAPORT SKYLINERS. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Jules Akodo back home . In: Fraport Skyliners . ( fraport-skyliners.de [accessed on November 2, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Sam Neter: London City Royals Sign Jules Dang Akodo. In: hoopsfix.com. November 2, 2018, accessed November 2, 2018 .
  10. ↑ https://www.2basketballbundesliga.de/teams/kader/538/?#tab-stats
  11. ↑ https://www.2basketballbundesliga.de/teams/kader/player/3897/ ?
  12. ↑ https://www.thelondonlions.com/dang-akodo-strengthens-lions/
  13. ↑ Jules Dang Akodo | U16 European Championship Men (2012) | FIBA Europe. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Kamil Grzegorczyk, Dariusz Ejkiewicz, http://lowgravity.pl : 2014 Albert Schweitzer Tournament: Day 1 Recap - NetScouts Basketball . In: NetScouts Basketball . April 20, 2014 ( netscoutsbasketball.com [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Jules Dang Akodo Re-Signs with Burgos, Now in ACB - Hoopsfix.com . In: Hoopsfix.com . August 26, 2017 ( hoopsfix.com [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  16. ↑ Great Britain at the FIBA ​​EuroBasket 2017 - FIBA.basketball. Accessed December 10, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Akodo, Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dang Akodo, Jules Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Yaoundé