Marcus Faison

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Basketball player
Marcus Faison
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Player information
Full name Marcus Vondell Faison
birthday February 18, 1978 (42 years 195 days)
place of birth Fayetteville , North Carolina , United States
size 196 cm
position Shooting Guard / Small Forward
college Siena
Club information
society Kotkan TP
league Korisliiga
Clubs as active
1996–2000 Siena Saints ( NCAA ) 2000–2002 GoPass Pepinster 2002 Adirondack Wildcats ( USBL ) 2002–2006 Spirou BC Charleroi 2006 RheinEnergie Cologne 2006–2007 Unicaja Málaga 2007–2008 BK Kiev 2008 Beşiktaş Cola Turka 2009 ViveMenorca 2009–2010 Peristeri Athens 2010 BK Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2010–2011 Telenet Oostende 2011–2012 RBC Verviers-Pepinster 2012 BK Krywyj Rih 2012 Petron Blaze Boosters 2012–2013 BK Armia Tiflis 2013 Esteghlal Qeshm Since 2013 Kotkan TPUnited StatesUnited States
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Marcus Faison (born February 18, 1978 in Fayetteville , North Carolina ) is a native American basketball player who also has Belgian citizenship . After completing his studies in his home country, Faison played as a professional in his adopted country of Belgium until 2006, before playing for clubs in various European countries. He was a participant in the 2011 European Championship finals for the national team in his Belgian adopted home .

Career

During his studies from 1996 to 2000 at Siena College in Loudonville near Albany in the US state of New York , Faison played for the university team Saints in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference of NCAA Division I. For the Saints he was a team member except for his freshman season the top scorer and is one of the ten best points collectors of all time in his university team; after winning the Conference Championship in 1999 you could qualify for the national finals , where you were subject to the Razorbacks of the University of Arkansas .

After graduating, he moved to Europe as a professional in 2000, where he played for the Belgian first division club in Pepinster near Liège . During the summer break of 2002 he was again active in his home country for the newly founded Adirondack Wildcats franchise of the USBL summer league. He then returned to Belgium for the following 2002/03 season and played for the former Belgian cup winner Spirou from Charleroi , with whom he immediately won the championship and cup double in 2003 , defeating Faison's former club from Pepinster in the championship final. In the 2003/04 season they successfully defended the Belgian championship, while in the 2004/05 season they were only runner-up in both national competitions. In the following season 2005/06 Spirou was not very successful, also because Faison had suffered a cruciate ligament rupture .

For the 2006/07 BBL season , Faison was signed by the German champions RheinEnergie from Cologne and also started with the club in the 2006/07 ULEB Euroleague . While the Cologne team were knocked out in the first group stage of the top European league, Faison was committed in December 2006 by rival Unicaja from the Spanish city of Málaga when their player Marcus Brown was injured. With the Spanish champions from 2006, after beating their national rivals Winterthur FC Barcelona in the quarter-finals , they made it into the Euroleague's Final Four tournament, where defending champion CSKA Moscow was defeated in the semi-finals. With a victory over TAU Cerámica in the game for third place you became the best Spanish team in this competition, while you were clearly inferior to this team in the national championship as the defending champion after a moderate main round season in the first play-off round.

For the 2007/08 season Faison was then committed by the Ukrainian BC Kiev, with whom he was runner-up in the national championship and cup competition in 2008. The following season he played for Beşiktaş Cola Turka from Istanbul in the Turkish basketball league . However, he only played seven games for the Turks until the end of November and moved back to the Spanish ACB league in January 2009 , where he could not prevent the relegation of his club ViveMenorca from the highest Spanish league after the end of the season. For the 2009/10 season he was signed by the Athens suburb Peristeri in the Greek A1 Ethniki , which he left early in March 2010. For the remainder of this season he played again in Ukraine, this time for Dnipro from Dnipropetrovsk . For the 2010/11 season he returned to his adopted country of Belgium and played for the first time in the Flemish part of the country for Telenet from Ostend . With this club he reached the Belgian cup final and semi-finals for the championship. On an international level, they reached the Final Four tournament in the EuroChallenge competition, where they lost to the later title winner KK Krka from Novo mesto in front of a home crowd and only managed to achieve third place after defeating BK Spartak Saint Petersburg . In June 2011 the club and players announced that they did not want to extend the contract.

As a member of the Belgian national team, Faison and his teammates managed to qualify for a continental final for the first time with Belgium since the European Championship in 1993 . Before the start of the 2011 European Championship finals in Lithuania , however, their most important player, Axel Hervelle, was injured and at the finals they were eliminated without a win in the first group stage. In November 2011 Faison joined the Royal Basket Club from Pepinster , where he began his European career and which is currently being trained by Aaron McCarthy, who is also known from the German Bundesliga . In early February 2012 Faison left the bottom of the table in the Belgian championship and joined the Ukrainian first division club from Krywyj Rih from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast , where he was already active at regional rivals Dnipro at the end of the 2010 season. In the summer of 2012 he moved to the Philippines to join the Petro Blaze Boosters in the Philippine Basketball Association . For the start of the season in Europe, he switched to the reigning Georgian champions BK Armia from Tbilisi at the beginning of October 2012 , who also competed in the EuroChallenge . However, he left this at the turn of the year and after a detour in the Iranian basketball super league he played from the end of February 2013 in the Finnish Korisliiga for the basketball team from Kotka .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siena Saints 2010-11 Men's Basketball Yearbook. (PDF; 30.9 MB) Siena College , pp. 76–79 , accessed on September 8, 2011 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Marcus Faison strengthens RheinEnergie Cologne. SchoenenDunk.de, August 2, 2006, accessed on September 8, 2011 (Medien-Info RheinEnergie Cologne).
  3. ^ Faison, from RheinEnergie to Unicaja. ULEB , December 21, 2006, accessed September 8, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Kyiv lands Marcus Faison, Vladimir Krstic. ULEB , July 18, 2007, accessed September 8, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Marcus Faison - 2008-2009 Regular Season. TBLStat.net, accessed on September 8, 2011 (English, TBL player statistics 08/09).
personal data
SURNAME Faison, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Fayetteville, North Carolina