Marvin Willoughby

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Basketball player
Marvin Willoughby
Player information
birthday January 31, 1978
place of birth Hamburg, Germany
size 202 cm
position Small forward
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1996–1998 SC Rist Wedel 1998–2002 DJK s.Oliver Würzburg 2002–2004 RheinEnergie Cologne 2004 Viola Reggio Calabria 2004 EB Pau-Orthez 2005 RheinEnergie Cologne 2008–2010 SC Rist WedelGermanyGermany
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2001-2003 Germany 35 games
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Marvin Willoughby (born January 31, 1978 in Hamburg ) is a former German basketball player . During his playing career he completed 35 international matches and is currently the sporting director and managing director of Hamburg Towers .

Player career

Willoughby grew up in the Hamburg district of Wilhelmsburg . He is the son of a German mother who worked as an accountant and a Nigerian father who came to Hamburg as a student but moved away when Willoughby was five years old. According to his own statement, he had the "normal, average career of a person from a focus". He played football, chess and martial arts. He first played basketball in school. The then Hamburg association trainer Peter Lazar saw him as part of the school competition “ Youth trains for the Olympics ” and recommended him to join a club. A trainer from TS Harburg invited Willoughby - at the time 13 years old - to training, which he accepted. In 1993, at the age of 15, he joined the youth team at SC Rist Wedel . At the age of 16 he signed a professional contract with Steiner Bayreuth , but ultimately never played for the Franconians. Bayreuth arranged for him to attend a high school in Orange Park , Florida , which he began in 1994. He then spent a second year in the United States in Richmond , Virginia . He did not accept scholarship offers from US universities because he had promised his mother that he would graduate from high school . He returned to Germany in 1996 and to SC Rist Wedel. He played for Wedel in the 2nd Bundesliga Group North.

In 1998 Willoughby moved to the DJK Würzburg in the first basketball league . In Külsheim he did his basic military service. In Würzburg he played with Dirk Nowitzki and was supported by Holger Geschwindner . Geschwindner had a great influence on him and was "a very important person in my life," said Willoughby later. With Nowitzki, Demond Greene and Robert Garrett , he was one of the "young and wild" members of the Würzburg team, which made it into the championship round as a Bundesliga climber in the 1998/99 season. Nowitzki and his parents have been friends since they were together in Würzburg. While he was under contract in Würzburg, Willoughby studied law at times , but gave up the study again. His style of play was described in the special edition of the Basketball Bundesliga for the 2000/01 season with the following words: "Powerful and athletic on the way to the basket, but sometimes a little too impetuous."

In 2002 Willoughby switched to RheinEnergie Köln and stayed there for two years. In the 2004/2005 season, the 2.02 m tall winger was initially active for two months for the Italian club Viola in Reggio Calabria , then one month for Élan Béarnais in Pau , France , and from January 2005 again at RheinEnergie Cologne. After an ankle injury and a total of three operations, he ended his professional career. Willoughby later called it "the hardest time of my life". He temporarily appeared as a co-commentator for the Cologne TV station center.tv . Willoughby began a distance learning course and, together with colleagues like Jan Fischer, developed the plan to use sport and basketball to build something “that is not only good for us but also for others”, as he later said, and from which the Hamburg Towers emerged years later . In June 2007 Willoughby acquired the B-trainer license and was appointed assistant trainer of the German U16 national team in the same year.

In the 2008/2009 season Willoughby played again for SC Rist Wedel in the 1st Regionalliga Nord, the fourth division, and won the championship title with the club. The club qualified for the ProB for the 2009/2010 season . After this season 09/10, in which Willoughby completed six games for SC Rist in the ProB, he ended his playing career. For the 2017/18 season he was part of the men's team at Hamburg Towers e. V., which received the same name as the professional team as a popular sports club, returned as a player in the district league. Looking back at his basketball career, Willoughby said in 2019:

“I saw the world through basketball, I gained a lot of confidence through basketball, I even made money off of basketball and built my personality - a big part of that that helped was that it got me through the world . "

National team

In 1996 he took part in the European Championship in France with the German junior national team and scored 5.7 points and 2.9 rebounds per use over the course of the tournament. At the U22 European Championship held in Italy in 1998, Willoughby was the third best scorer in the German team with an average of 10.9 points per game, behind Nowitzki and Marko Pesic . In 2001 Willoughby made his international debut in the German men's national team. He took part in the 2001 European Basketball Championship in Turkey and reached the semifinals. In total, Willoughby had 35 full international matches for Germany by 2003. With the German national student team he participated in the 2001 Universiade in Beijing.

Career as a trainer and functionary

In 2006 Willoughby was one of the founders of the Hamburg association “Sport ohne Grenzen e. V. “, which among other things offered sports social work in school cooperations and basketball camps. "SOG" has been part of the InselAkademie in the Hamburg district of Wilhelmsburg since 2014. According to Willoughby, “the social approach was taken from the start, but immediately combined with a basketball performance approach”. In Holger Geschwindner's book “Nowitzki. The story ”, in which a section is also dedicated to Willoughby, describes how he incorporated Geschwindner's motto, among other things, into his work as a youth sponsor:“ You can do what you want here. And get the chance to make mistakes too. This is my offer. "

He also founded Piraten Hamburg with fellow campaigners and sent a team in the U16 Bundesliga JBBL into the race from the 2009/10 season. In 2011 an NBBL team was added. Willoughby was first coach of the JBBL selection and later the NBBL team. The pirates work together with several clubs of the Hamburg Basketball Association and bring the talents of different clubs together under one roof.

In addition to his work at "Sport without Borders" and at Piraten Hamburg, Willoughby worked on putting together a men's team that would play in the first division for the long term. In the 2014/15 season, the Hamburg Towers started in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA for the first time, Willoughby became the sporting director of the Towers. Later he also took on the position of managing director. At the end of April 2019, the Towers achieved promotion to the basketball league by winning the fifth and final semi-final game in Chemnitz. Shortly before, Willoughby had confirmed the goal of wanting to "establish itself" with the team in the top German league. In the following final against Nuremberg, the Towers secured the championship title. With reference to his goals with the commercial enterprise Hamburg Towers, he said in 2019: “This is a huge economic thing. We want to make money. I want to make real money. I just don't necessarily need the money for myself now (...), but I would like to use it to build something that people can benefit from in the long term, even if I'm no longer in the position myself. "

successes

With Cologne he won the DBB Cup twice (2004, 2005) .

In November 2015 Willoughby was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by Federal Labor Minister Andrea Nahles for his social commitment . He received the honorary award at the Hamburger Sportgala in December 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit : A huge honor for Hamburg Tower Marvin Willoughby. In: MOPO.de. Retrieved May 21, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e # 079 Hamburg Towers Managing Director Marvin Willoughby: Challenge ascent. Retrieved August 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Player FM: # 160 With Marvin Willoughby and Jan Fischer, Founder and Managing Director of Hamburg Towers On The Way To New Work - The Podcast About New Work podcast. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
  4. ^ Rainer Grünberg: Marvin Willoughby: Wilhelmsburger wants to be in the first division. April 6, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Six players left - so what? In: Wedel-Schulauer-Tageblatt . Pinneberg September 18, 1993.
  6. ↑ a b Rainer Grünberg: The two careers of Marvin Willoughby. In: Abendblatt.de. Retrieved February 11, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b c d Nowitzki, prices and the problem cases. In: Main Post. January 24, 2020, accessed January 25, 2020 .
  8. ^ NDR: Willoughby: The basketball social worker. In: www.ndr.de. Archived from the original on August 25, 2015 ; accessed on February 11, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Better jazz gymnastics than a training camp: - WELT. In: THE WORLD. Retrieved January 13, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Five facts about the Hamburg Towers. November 21, 2014, accessed August 18, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Südwest Presse Online -dienste GmbH: Basketball: 20 years ago: Dirk Nowitzki's Bundesliga tour. October 18, 2018, accessed August 18, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Marvin Willoughby on the relationship with Dirk Nowitzki. In: Main Post on youtube.com. Retrieved January 25, 2020 (German).
  13. ↑ From Garrett to Willoughby . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 44 .
  14. ↑ Legabasket: Marvin Willoughby. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed on May 20, 2013 (Italian, player profile on statistics pages).
  15. ^ Marvin Willoughby - Pau-Orthez - Joueurs - Pro A. (No longer available online.) Ligue Nationale de Basket , archived from the original on January 29, 2016 ; accessed on May 20, 2013 (French, player statistics). 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.lnb.fr
  16. ↑ RheinEnergie Cologne: Marvin Willoughby returns to RheinEnergie. Schoenen-Dunk.de, January 2005, accessed on May 20, 2013 (Medien-Info RheinEnergie Köln).
  17. ↑ a b Rainer Grünberg and Inga Radel: The comeback of the sports director of the Hamburg Towers . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on September 8, 2017]).
  18. ↑ Sport1.de: Basketball: Marvin Willoughby receives Federal Merit Medal . In: Sport1.de. Retrieved on February 11, 2016 (German).
  19. ^ B special course in Heidelberg. In: www.basketball-bund.de. German Basketball Federation, accessed on February 11, 2016 .
  20. ↑ alexanderplatz advertising agency GmbH: Chronicle 2004-2011. (No longer available online.) In: www.scrist-wedel.de. Archived from the original on December 6, 2016 ; accessed on February 11, 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.scrist-wedel.de
  21. ↑ Five players take it easy - Davis moves to Japan. Schoenen-Dunk.de, July 28, 2010, accessed on May 20, 2013 (Medien-Info SC Rist Wedel).
  22. ^ Marvin Willoughby profile, European Championship for Men '22 and Under '1998. In: FIBA. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Hans-Joachim Mahr: http://mahr.sb-vision.de/dbb/html/herren/player/spielespieler.aspx?spnr=170. In: mahr.sb-vision.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .
  24. ↑ Germany | European Championship for Men (2001) | FIBA Europe. In: www.fibaeurope.com. Retrieved February 11, 2016 .
  25. ↑ Beko BBL - What is ... Marvin Willoughby actually doing? In: www.beko-bbl.de. Retrieved February 11, 2016 .
  26. ↑ Sport without borders e. V. (No longer available online.) Sportohnegrenzen.de, January 21, 2016, archived from the original on January 21, 2016 ; accessed on January 21, 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.sportohnegrenzen.de
  27. ↑ Holger Geschwindner: The left immigrant . In: Nowitzki. The story . Murmann, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86774-212-2 , pp. 68-71 .
  28. ^ Pirates Hamburg. (No longer available online.) Hamburgtowers.de, January 21, 2016, archived from the original on January 21, 2016 ; accessed on January 21, 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
  29. ↑ Towers. taz.de, January 21, 2016, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  30. ^ Association of Creditreform associations, neofonie GmbH: Hamburg Towers Basketball- Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg - company information. Retrieved May 5, 2017 .
  31. ↑ NDR: Hamburg Towers rise in the basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
  32. ↑ Alexander Berthold and Rainer Grünberg: Exciting finale: Hamburg Towers are second division champions. May 4, 2019, accessed on May 4, 2019 (German).
  33. ↑ bmas.de
  34. ↑ Honorary Award for Marvin Willoughby . In: Hamburger Sportbund e. V. December 11, 2017 ( hamburger-sportbund.de [accessed December 2, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Willoughby, Marvin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg