Marco van den Berg
Marco van den Berg (born June 14, 1965 ) is a Dutch basketball coach . Since April 2020 he has been the head coach of Gladiators Trier in his second term .
career
Van den Berg first played soccer before he became enthusiastic about basketball. After an injury he had to give up the active career, became a co-trainer and finally a coach. In his Dutch homeland he coached the first division clubs Landstede Zwolle , Eiffel Towers Nijmegen , Omniworld Almere and GasTerra Flames Groningen .
In October 2011 he moved to neighboring Germany and took over the position of head coach at the BBC Bayreuth in the basketball league . He took over the BBC Bayreuth from the 6th day of the 2011/12 season after his predecessor Andreas Wagner was on leave from the club due to unsuccessfulness. Van den Berg reached 13th place in the basketball league with the BBC Bayreuth at the end of the season. His contract with the BBC Bayreuth was terminated on March 19, 2013 by mutual agreement. In May 2013 he started working as a coach at a Dutch basketball academy working in the field of youth talent development and remained in this position until June 2015.
From July 2015 he was the head coach of the Gladiators Trier in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA . He led the team to the semi-finals of the second-highest German division in the 2015/16 season.
In mid-January 2018, Trier announced that, for family reasons, van den Berg was returning to his home country after the end of the 2017/18 season and was taking on the management of a youth academy of the Dutch basketball association. In April 2020, Trier announced van den Berg's return to the coaching office.
Van den Berg has been married to the German SPD politician and MEP Katarina Barley since June 2020 .
Coaching stations
- 1992–1994 University of Groningen (assistant trainer)
- 1994–1996 Red Giants Meppel (NED)
- 1996–2000 Landstede Basketbal Zwolle (NED)
- 2001-2004 Eiffeltowers Nijmegen (NED)
- 2005-2007 Omniworld Almere (NED)
- 2006–2008 national coach Netherlands (in personal union)
- 2008–2011 Gasterra Flames Groningen (NED)
- 2011-2013 BBC Bayreuth ( Basketball Bundesliga )
- 2013–2015 Basketball Academy RTC Noord (NED)
- July 2015-2018 Gladiators Trier ( 2nd Bundesliga ProA )
- 2018–2020 Dutch Basketball Federation
- since 2020 Gladiators Trier (2nd Bundesliga ProA)
Greatest successes
- Dutch champion 2003 and 2011
- Cup winners Netherlands 2001 and 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ News.de editors: Basketball: BBC Bayreuth separates from coach Wagner . In: News.de . ( news.de [accessed on March 15, 2017]). Basketball: BBC Bayreuth separates from trainer Wagner ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Perform Media Deutschland GmbH: Bayreuth: Wagner gone - van den Berg comes . In: SPOX.com . October 18, 2011 ( spox.com [accessed March 15, 2017]).
- ↑ Basketball Academy RTC Noord - Groningen -. Retrieved March 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Cookies. Retrieved March 15, 2017 (nl-NL).
- ↑ volksfreund.de: Basketball: Gladiator trainer Marco van den Berg officially presented in Trier - volksfreund.de. Retrieved March 15, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de/trainerwechsel-zur-kommenden-saison-marco-van-den-berg-wird-seinen-vertrag-nicht-verlaengern-christian-held-uebernehmen-roemerstrom-gladiators -20182019 /
- ↑ Back on the Moselle: Marco van den Berg is the new head coach of the RÖMERSTROM Gladiators Trier. In: Gladiators Trier. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Yes said: Katarina Barley and Marco van den Berg got married , Trierischer Volksfreund, June 19, 2020
- ↑ GasTerra Flames, Notable former coaches
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berg, Marco van den |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch basketball coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1965 |