Marko Verginella

Player information
Marko Verginella
birthday	June 6, 1978
place of birth	Maribor, SFR Yugoslavia
size	203 cm
position	Small forward / power forward
Clubs as active
1995–1998 KK Smelt Olimpija Ljubljana 1997–1998 → ZM Ovni Maribor 1998–1999 AKK Branik Maribor 1999–2000 Friborg Olympic 2000 Saint Petersburg Lions 2001–2002 StadtSport Braunschweig 2002–2003 Lugano Snakes 2003 Alba Berlin 2004 EWE Baskets Oldenburg 2004–2005 Snaidero Udine 2005–2006 Viola Reggio Calabria 2006–2007 Indesit Fabriano 2007 NSB Rieti Naples 2007–2008 Dinamo Basket Sassari 2009 Lugano Tigers 2010 Starwings Basket Regio Basel 2011–2012 AKK Branik Maribor Slovenia Slovenia Slovenia Switzerland 00000 Russia Germany Switzerland 00000 Germany 00000Germany Italy Italy Italy 00000Italy Italy 00000Switzerland 00000Switzerland Slovenia

Marko Verginella (born June 6, 1978 in Maribor , SR Slovenia ) is a former Italian - Slovenian basketball player . The former Slovenian junior national player initially played professionally for clubs in his Slovenian homeland before continuing his career from 1999 in Switzerland , briefly in Russia , Germany and Italy. Verginella was the 2010 Swiss Cup winner with the Starwings Basket Regio Basel .

Career

Verginella was part of the squad of the dominant Slovenian serial champion KK Olimpija, for which he completed his first games in the men's area. When Smelt Olimpija reached the Final Four tournament of the FIBA Europaliga in 1997 , Verginella remained without use in this competition. Instead, Verginella was loaned to KK ZM Ovni from his hometown for the following season, with whom he also played internationally in the 1997/98 Korać Cup . However, ZM Ovni lost all six games in this competition, including two against the German representative HERZOGtel Trier . In the national championship they lost in the first play-off round. Then Verginella won with the Slovenian junior selection after the final defeat against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia a silver medal in the finals of the U22 European Championship. For the following season, Verginella stayed in his hometown and moved to local rivals AKK Branik, who at the penultimate place in the table at the end of the season avoided relegation initially by merging with ZM Maribor.

Verginella played his first season abroad in the 1999/2000 season with the Swiss champions Olympic from Freiburg im Üechtland . However, this lost his title to the Lugano Snakes. For the inaugural season of the ULEB Euroleague 2000/01 , Verginella was signed by the Russian representative Lions from Saint Petersburg . However, this played without a license from the Russian Federation, which boycotted the competition for the FIBA Suproleague . Without a connection to a national association, the season ended for the team after only two wins in ten preliminary round matches after the preliminary round of this competition. Verginella played eight games until the end of the year and in the new year switched to the German first division club StadtSport from Braunschweig , which, after near bankruptcy and the resulting personnel rogue, made it into the play-offs of the basketball Bundesliga 2000/01 . After the elimination in the first round in the quarter-finals against the eventual runner-up Telekom Baskets Bonn , they missed qualifying for the final round of the German championship when they were twelfth in the main round in the 2001/02 basketball Bundesliga . In addition, like two years earlier with Friborg Olympic, Verginella failed with the Braunschweig team to make it into the main round of the Korać Cup. In the relegation round of the Bundesliga, the Braunschweiger were able to improve to tenth place and secure relegation. In the 2002/03 season Verginella played again in the Swiss National Basketball League in Ticino for Master Snakes from Lugano . After three championships in a row, the club, which had also tried its hand at the ULEB Euroleague internationally , was financially at an end and had to leave the title to BC Boncourt . Instead, the Snakes were liquidated at the end of the season.

For the 2003/04 season Verginella was signed up by the German champion Alba from Berlin in mid-October 2003, who used him again in the top-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2003/04 . In addition to two appearances in this international competition, Verginella made eight appearances in the basketball league in 2003/04 , before coach Emir Mutapcic renounced his services after Alba's departure from the Euroleague after only three wins in 14 games. Instead, Verginella moved to league competitor EWE Baskets from Oldenburg , with whom he moved into the play-off final round as fourth. Here they lost without their own victory against GHP Bamberg , who subsequently dethroned series champion Alba Berlin in the semifinals. In the 2004/05 season, Verginella played for the first time in Italy, whose citizenship he also has. At Snaidero from Udine in Friuli on the border with Slovenia he was used as a rotation player with an average time of almost 15 minutes per game in the Lega Basket Serie A , as in Berlin and Oldenburg . The performance of the team stagnated compared to the previous season and they achieved relegation on the 15th and fourth from bottom place in the table with one victory ahead. For the following season, Verginella moved to league rivals Viola in the south to Reggio Calabria , who had only achieved relegation as penultimate through the exclusion of Scavolini Pesaro . This relegation did not give the team an advantage, because the team was now finally no longer competitive and only achieved three wins in 34 season games, which resulted in relegation as the bottom of the table.

In the 2006/07 season Verginella played in the second Italian division Legadue but not for viola, but for the Indesit club from Fabriano . In January 2007 he moved to league competitor NSB Rieti from Naples in Campania , with whom he won the league cup and the championship of this division. After the rise of the southern Italians, however, Verginella remained loyal to the Legadue and played in the 2007/08 season with the former 13th and fourth last Dinamo Basket from Sassari in Sardinia . After being promoted again in 2003, the Sardinians achieved their best position to date with Verginella in third place in 2008, but remained without a win in the first play-off round for the remaining promotion place against Aurora Fileni Jesi. In the following season, Verginella returned to Lugano in 2009, where the team, now trading as Tigers, lost the final series against SAV Basket from Vacallo and missed another title win. A year later, in January 2010, Verginella hired Starwings Basket Regio Basel in Birsfelden , which won the cup competition against defending champion SAV Basket, but was eliminated in the semi-final series of the championship against Verginella's former team and new title winner Lugano Tigers. At the end of his career, Verginella was again registered in the second-highest Slovenian league in the 2011/12 season with his home club AKK Branik.

Web links

Legabasket: Marko Verginella - Profile on the websites of the Serie A ( Italian )
easyCredit BBL - Marko Verginella - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
Verginella, MARKO - Player profile on the website of the Euro League ( English )
Marko Verginella - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ Marko Verginella / Korac Cup (1998). FIBA Europe , accessed on December 13, 2015 (English, individual competition statistics).
^ Christian Schwager: Investing in combat and squad. Berliner Zeitung , October 17, 2003, accessed on December 13, 2015 (repro in the news archive).
↑ BBL - Player Statistics - Marko Verginella. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on December 13, 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@ 2
↑ Legaduebasket: Marko Verginella. Legadue , archived from the original on October 6, 2013 ; accessed on December 13, 2015 (Italian, player profile).
↑ Georges Küng: veteran and globetrotter lets it run out at the Starwings: Marko Verginella. Basketportal.com, January 25, 2010, accessed December 13, 2015 .
↑ AKK Branik Maribor basketball team - 2011–2012 roster. eurobasket.com, accessed on December 13, 2015 (English, roster overview on basketball news portal).

personal data
SURNAME	Verginella, Marko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian-Slovenian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH	Maribor , SR Slovenia

[1] Marko Verginella / Korac Cup (1998). FIBA Europe , accessed on December 13, 2015 (English, individual competition statistics).

[2] Christian Schwager: Investing in combat and squad. Berliner Zeitung , October 17, 2003, accessed on December 13, 2015 (repro in the news archive).

[3] BBL - Player Statistics - Marko Verginella. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on December 13, 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@ 2

[4] Legaduebasket: Marko Verginella. Legadue , archived from the original on October 6, 2013 ; accessed on December 13, 2015 (Italian, player profile).

[5] Georges Küng: veteran and globetrotter lets it run out at the Starwings: Marko Verginella. Basketportal.com, January 25, 2010, accessed December 13, 2015 .

[6] AKK Branik Maribor basketball team - 2011–2012 roster. eurobasket.com, accessed on December 13, 2015 (English, roster overview on basketball news portal).