Jussi Kumpulainen

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Jussi Kumpulainen (2010)

Jussi Terho Kumpulainen (born September 4,  1976 in Jyväskylä ) is a former Finnish basketball player .

career

The 2.04 meter tall indoor player made his debut in the Finnish first division in the 1995/96 season as a member of the Kisa Nokia team. From 1996 to 1998 he was in the same division with UU Korihait under contract. There he came in 1997/98 to 11.8 points and 8.3 rebounds per encounter.

Kumpulainen's first club abroad was Athlon Ieper in Belgium , where he played at the beginning of the 1998/99 season (seven appearances: 2.6 points / game) before moving to BG Hagen in the 2nd Bundesliga in Germany during the season . During the summer break of 1999, the Finn moved to the Bundesliga promoted SSV Weißenfels . In 26 missions for Weißenfels he achieved an average of 4.2 points.

For the 2000/01 season, Kumpulainen joined the German second division club TSV Quakenbrück  . In the 2001/02 season he was briefly under contract with Dafni Athens in Greece . Kumpulainen continued his career in Germany in 2002: after a detour to the second division ART Düsseldorf , for which he played two league games in the early stages of the 2002/03 season (6 points / game), he was in the service of Bundesliga club Avitos Gießen in the second half of the season . In 21 Bundesliga games for Mittelhessen, the inside player scored an average of 2.8 points.

In 2003/04, the Finnish international strengthened the Austrian Bundesliga club WBC Kraftwerk Wels . Then Kumpulainen returned to his home country. From 2004 to 2006 he was under contract with Lappeenrannan NMKY and was Finnish champion with the team in 2005 and 2006. He contributed to these successes in the 2004/05 season an average of 10.5 and 2005/06 11.1 points per game.

In 2006/07 he was also in Finland's top division for Torpan Pojat, and at the end of his career, Kumpulainen wore the colors of UU-Korihait again between 2007 and 2011. In the 2007/08 season he posted 13.1 points and 8.8 rebounds per encounter, the best values ​​he achieved in the course of a season in the Finnish first division.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jussi Terho Kumpulainen | EuroCup Challenge (2006) | FIBA Europe. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Jussi Kumpulainen: Uratilastot & saavutukset. In: basket.fi. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Basketball: Weißenfels looking for a player - DER SPIEGEL - Sport. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b 1513 Jussi KUMPULAINEN. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 2. Bundesliga North: TSV Quakenbrück . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 47 .
  6. ↑ Jussi Terho Kumpulainen profile, European Championship for Men 2003. Accessed August 11, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Virtasen A. Le Coq venyi jatkoaikavoittoon liiga-avauksessa. October 12, 2003, accessed August 11, 2020 (Finnish).
personal data
SURNAME Kumpulainen, Jussi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kumpulainen, Jussi Terho (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Jyväskylä