Marc Liyanage

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Basketball player
Marc Liyanage
2016-12-22 Marc Liyanage (Hamburg Towers) by Sandro Halank – 5.jpg
Player information
birthday February 9, 1990
place of birth Hamburg, Germany
size 198 cm
position wing
college Delta State
Club information
society USC Heidelberg
league 2nd Bundesliga ProA
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2007–2009 Bramfelder SV 2009–2010 Giants Nördlingen 2010–2011 Delta St. ( NCAA Div II) 2011–2013 Giants Düsseldorf 2013–2014 BG Göttingen 2014–2015 Central German BC 2015–2016 Alba Berlin 2016–2017 Hamburg Towers 2017–2018 Central German BC 2018 Artland Dragons since 2018 USC HeidelbergGermanyGermany
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Marc Liyanage (born February 9, 1990 in Hamburg ) is a German basketball player who has been under contract with USC Heidelberg since July 2018 .

After starting his career with Bramfelder SV in his hometown, Liyanage played for the second division clubs Nördlingen and Düsseldorf from 2009, interrupted only by a year of study in the United States . After the runner-up with the Giants Düsseldorf in the ProA 2012/13 , he won the ProA championship 2013/14 with the BG Göttingen . In the top German division basketball Bundesliga , Liyanage played for Central German BC in the 2014/15 season and moved to Alba Berlin in the 2015/16 season .

Career

Liyanage, whose father is from Sri Lanka , began his career at Bramfelder SV, where he played for the junior team from 2007 in the youth basketball league (NBBL). With the men's team, Liyanage rose to the first regional league in 2008 . After the end of his NBBL career, Liyanage moved in 2009 to the Giants from Nördlingen , who had withdrawn to the second highest division for economic reasons after a year of first class. With a young, newly formed team, the Nördlingers were only partially competitive in the ProA 2009/10 and were relegated after only seven wins in 30 games as the bottom of the table. Liyanage, who had got an average of almost ten minutes playing time in 22 appearances in the ProA, then went to study in the United States , after the Nördlinger initially withdrew their team completely from the professional, national leagues to the regional league after relegation. At Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi , Liyanage only played in the Statesmen college team in Division II of the NCAA , which is generally insufficient for students with the goal of a professional athletic career.

Liyanage came back from the States after a year and played from 2011 for another first division relegated named Giants, but this time in Düsseldorf . Under coach Murat Didin, however , the Giants missed their return to the top division in the ProA 2011/12 in the play-off semi- final series, which was decisive for promotion . However, this succeeded in the following season when they had to admit defeat to SC Rasta Vechta in the play-offs only in the finals . However, the basketball league refused the Giants the license for the highest German division due to a lack of evidence of economic performance and after a renewed examination, the Giants also had their license for the 2nd basketball league withdrawn. In Düsseldorf Liyanage had shown solid performances in an average of almost 15 minutes per game and was signed by the BG Göttingen for the following season. Similar to the Düsseldorf team, the Göttingen team managed to get into the ProA 2013/14 finals two years after their relegation from the top division , in which the Crailsheim Merlins were defeated in addition to the two- legged game. The Göttingen received the license for the top division, but Liyanage, whose playing time in Göttingen had decreased to a good ten minutes per game, got a place in the first division club Mitteldeutscher BC in Weißenfels . In Weißenfels, Malte Schwarz was team captain , who was already Liyanage's teammate at Bramfelder SV in the NBBL and Regional League.

In September 2015, Liyanage signed a one-year contract with Alba Berlin . In the 2015/16 season he only played a few minutes (2:30 per game) and scored an average of 1.3 points in 15 Bundesliga games for Berlin. For the 2016/17 season he moved to his hometown Hamburg, where he joined the second division club Hamburg Towers . At the Hanseatic League he was used more often and was on the field in 30 games on average for 24:10 minutes during the ProA season 2016/17. He used this time to record an average of 4.9 points and 3.9 rebounds.

At the end of August 2017, he was signed for the second time in his career by the Central German BC, who had previously made it back to the top division. The separation took place in January 2018. Liyanage played ten Bundesliga games for MBC during the 2017/18 season, with an average of 0.5 points. Liyanage continued his career after leaving Central Germany in Quakenbrück in Lower Saxony , where he played for the third division Artland Dragons  .

After the end of the 2017/18 season, Liyanage left Quakenbrück and accepted an offer from the second division USC Heidelberg during the summer break of 2018 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Anna Blumtritt: Marc Liyanage changes from master craftsman Göttingen to MBC. (No longer available online.) Central German Basketball Club , June 30, 2014, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved on January 25, 2015 (media information in the archive). 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.mitteldeutscherbc.de
  2. Player Statistics - Marc Liyanage. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on June 17, 2016 ; accessed on January 25, 2015 (profile on statistics pages). 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 / statistik.beko-bbl.de
  3. ^ Alba Berlin: Separation from Ivan Aska / Marc Liyanage becomes an albatross. In: Alba Berlin. Retrieved March 4, 2016 .
  4. 160919_News | Hamburg Towers. (No longer available online.) In: www.hamburgtowers.de. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016 ; Retrieved September 19, 2016 . 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.hamburgtowers.de
  5. Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.mitteldeutscherbc.de
  6. http://www.mitteldeutscherbc.de/mbc-und-marc-liyanage-iegen-getrennte-wege/
  7. http://www.artland-dragons.de/saison/news/news-detail/article/?tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=1117&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHashfe=13d9dab90e945
  8. https://www.mlp-academics-heidelberg.de/kader-komplettiert-marc-liyanage-ersetzt-albert-kuppe-25025