Luboš Bartoň

Luboš Bartoň
Player information
birthday	April 7, 1980
place of birth	Česká Lípa, ČSSR
size	202 cm
position	Small forward
college	Valparaiso University
Club information
society	Valencia Basket Club
league	League ACB
Clubs as active
1996–1998 BK Děčín 1998–2002 Valparaiso Crusaders ( NCAA ) 2002–2003 Fortitudo Bologna 2003–2005 Pallacanestro Virtus Roma 2005–2008 Joventut de Badalona 2008–2010 FC Barcelona 2010–2012 Baloncesto Fuenlabrada 2012 Joventut Badalona 2012–2013 USK Prague 2013 Phantoms Braunschweig 2013 BK Děčín 2013–2014 Valencia Basket Club 00000 00000 00000
National team
Since 01999	Czech Republic

Luboš Bartoň (born April 7, 1980 in Česká Lípa , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech basketball player . After studying in the United States, the Czech international played as a professional for three years in Italy and then for seven years in Spain . With the Catalan clubs Barcelona ( ULEB Euroleague 2009/10 ) and Badalona ( ULEB Cup 2007/08 , FIBA EuroCup 2005/06 ) he won the three most important European club competitions. After playing briefly in the German basketball league for the Phantoms Braunschweig in 2013 , he returned to the Spanish ACB league for a short-term contract in the 2013/14 season .

Career

Bartoň began his career with the youth team of the club from Děčín , near his birthplace in the north of the Czech Republic. He made his professional debut with the same club in the 1996/97 season and also played the 1997/98 championship there. He then played basketball at Valparaiso University from 1998 to 2002 and moved to Italy for the 2002/03 season after signing a contract with Fortitudo Bologna . For the 2003/04 season he moved to Pallacanestro Virtus Roma , where he also played the 2004/05 championship. From Italy he moved on to Spain after signing a contract with Joventut de Badalona . In 2008 he moved to FC Barcelona , where he played until 2010 before signing with Baloncesto Fuenlabrada . Barton played for Fuenlabrada until 2012 before returning to Catalonia for a few weeks and again helping out at Joventut Badalona. In the following season 2012/13 he did not join the USK Prague until December 2012 in his Czech homeland under coach Ken Scalabroni , but then moved to Germany in January 2013 and received a contract until the end of the season with the relegation-threatened first division club New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig who have already been trained by Scalabroni in the past. After the successful relegation, Barton first played the following season at his home club in Děčín, before returning to the Spanish ACB league for a short-term contract in December 2013, where he was active for the club from Valencia .

successes

• Played in 1998 in the Czech All Star team
• 1998/99: MCC Newcomer of the Year
• Was appointed to the All-MCC 2nd Team in 2000/01
• 2001/02: MCC Player of the Year
• 2001/02: Called up to the All-MCC 1st Team
• Won the FIBA EuroCup in 2006 and the Eurocup in 2014
• Was a member of the Czech national youth team
• Was a member of the Czech U-20 team
• Is a member of the Czech national team
• Participated in the Basketball European Championships in 1999 (second best scorer of the tournament was averaging 18.7 points per game.) And 2007 in part

Web links

• archive.fiba.com: Players - Lubos BARTON (CZE) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments ( English )
• BARTON, LUBOS - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)
• ACB.COM: Lubos Barton - player profile on the websites of the ACB League ( Spanish )
• Legabasket: Lubos Barton - player profile on the statistics pages of Serie A ( Italian )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lubos Barton / FCBarcelona.cat. FC Barcelona , 2009, accessed on January 30, 2013 (English, player profile as of 2009). 
2. ↑ Christian Schiebold: Braunschweig: Lubos Barton should save Phantoms from relegation. Braunschweiger Zeitung , January 28, 2013, accessed on January 30, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Beko BBL - Player Statistics - Lubos Barton - New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig 2012/13. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on December 17, 2015 ; accessed on December 16, 2013 (player profile). 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.  
4. ↑ VALENCIA BASKET hires Barton short-term. (No longer available online.) ULEB , December 16, 2013, archived from the original on December 16, 2013 ; accessed on December 16, 2013 . 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.