Constantine Konga

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Basketball player
Constantine Konga
Konstantin Klein at the Telekom Baskets Bonn game against the Södertälje Kings on October 25, 2016.
Player information
Full name Konstantin Kasimir S. Konga
birthday May 21, 1991
place of birth Berlin, Germany
size 185 cm
position Point guard
Club information
society Skyliners Frankfurt
league Basketball Bundesliga
Clubs as active
2007-2011 GermanyGermany Alba Berlin
2011–2012 GermanyGermany Oettinger Rockets Gotha
2012-2016 GermanyGermany Skyliners Frankfurt
2016-2018 GermanyGermany Telekom Baskets Bonn
2018-2020 GermanyGermany MHP giant Ludwigsburg
2020– GermanyGermany Skyliners Frankfurt
National team 1
2015 GermanyGermany Germany 3 games
1 As of October 10, 2015

Konstantin Kasimir Sidney Konga (* 21st May 1991 in Berlin as Konstantin Kasimir Sidney Klein ) is a German professional basketball player . In his youth in Berlin he won the championship in the youth basketball league (NBBL) with the Alba Berlin junior team in 2009 . After a season in the third division ProB, in which he achieved promotion to the second highest division with the Oettinger Rockets Gotha, he played for the first division club Skyliners Frankfurt from 2012 to 2016. The former junior international was briefly a member of the German senior team in 2015. Later he went back to Frankfurt.

Career

Klein, who was also active in the club for TuS Lichterfelde in his youth , played in the junior team of the first division Alba Berlin under coach Henrik Rödl in the youth basketball league (NBBL) from 2007 . In his second season the Alba-Juniors won the championship title in the NBBL for the first time together with Niels Giffey . In the following season, the defending champion reached the final game in the NBBL Top Four again , but it was lost to Team Urspring , in which, among other things, his future Frankfurt teammate Kevin Bright was active, who brought back the championship title for the Swabians .

With the reserve team from Alba Berlin, Klein made it to the third highest German men's division, ProB, in 2010 . In the 2010/11 season you could achieve relegation in the play-downs . For the following season 2011/12 , junior national player Klein, who achieved fifth place with the German youth team at the U20 European Championship 2011, switched to league competitor Oettinger Rockets from Gotha , who won the league championship and promotion in the play-offs at the end of the season reached the ProA , while the Alba reserve lost in the play-downs against the reserve team of the Bundesliga club Skyliners Frankfurt and relegated back to the regional league.

The Fraport Skyliners from Frankfurt am Main were also Klein's next stop in the 2012/13 season . By means of a double license , Klein was permanently authorized to play both for the reserve team in the ProB and for the first division team, but was then used in all games of the top German division except for two games. However, the Skyliners clearly missed entry into the play-offs for the German championship in 14th place in the table. In the following season , in which Klein doubled his average playing time to a good 27 minutes per game, they improved to eleventh place in the table under coach returnees Gordon Herbert with the same number of wins this season, which in turn did not make it into the final round of the championship was enough. A2 national coach Rödl nominated his former junior player Klein for the A2 national team in summer 2014. In the EuroChallenge 2014/15 , Klein played for the Skyliners for the first time in an international men's club competition and reached the Final Four there . In the course of preparing for the 2015 European Championship, national coach Chris Fleming nominated him for the first time for the senior national team , but ultimately without considering him for the final squad. In 2016 he won the FIBA Europe Cup with Frankfurt .

In August 2016, after four years in Frankfurt, Klein moved to Telekom Baskets Bonn , where he signed a three-year contract with a mutual termination option for the third year. After the 2017/18 season , the Baskets made use of a contract option and terminated their contract with Klein prematurely after two years. At the beginning of July 2018, he was signed by league rival MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg . He was named captain of the team for the 2019/20 season .

At the end of July 2020, the Skyliners Frankfurt announced his return. There he was again a player in the Bundesliga team and also an assistant coach for the second Frankfurt men's team in the 2nd Bundesliga ProB.

Private

Konga is vegan . He married his girlfriend in June 2019 and took her last name. On the first match day of the 2019/20 Bundesliga season he was the target of a racially motivated insult in Weißenfels: a supporter of the Central German Basketball Club imitated monkey sounds, alluding to his surname, while Konga wanted to throw in a throw-in. The fan was then punished by the Central German BC with a several-month hall ban.

Web links

Commons : Konstantin Klein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg (ed.): RIESIG - The RIESEN magazine . Issue 13 (2018/19 season), p. 4-5 ( issuu.com ).
  2. ↑ Player database> Konstantin Klein. German Basketball Association , accessed October 10, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Jan Buchholz: Master! ALBA's NBBL team defeated Paderborn in the heartbeat final. (No longer available online.) Alba Berlin , May 10, 2009, archived from the original on January 10, 2015 ; accessed on January 18, 2015 (match report). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.albaberlin.de
  4. ↑ U20 men win at the end of their sensational EM. Deutscher Basketball Bund , July 24, 2011, accessed on January 18, 2015 (media information and match report).
  5. ↑ Rödl nominates A2 squad men. Deutscher Basketball Bund , June 6, 2014, accessed on January 18, 2015 (media info).
  6. ↑ National player Konstantin Klein moves to the Baskets. General-Anzeiger Bonn, August 10, 2016, accessed on August 11, 2016 .
  7. ↑ https://www.mhp-riesen-ludwigsburg.de/news/artikel/news/konstantin-klein-wird-ludwigsburger/
  8. ↑ a b Andreas Eberle: Interview with giant captain Konstantin Konga: “I'm better than ever”. In: swp.de. Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH, September 24, 2019, accessed on September 27, 2019 .
  9. ↑ https://www.fraport-skyliners.de/news-service/details/fraport-skyliners-haben-konstantin-konga-zurueck-nach-frankfurt/
  10. ↑ BBL investigates because of monkey sounds against Konstantin Konga from the MHP Giants Ludwigsburg. In: sport1.de. September 26, 2019, accessed September 27, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Konstantin Konga racially insulted at MBC guest performance. In: basketball.de. September 26, 2019, accessed September 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Konga, Constantine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konga, Konstantin Kasimir Sidney (full name); Klein, Konstantin Kasimir Sidney (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany