Olaf Möller (basketball player)
Olaf Möller | ||
Player information | ||
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birthday | 19th November 1968 | |
place of birth | Hamburg , Germany | |
size | 203 cm | |
position |
Center / Power Forward |
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college | UMass Boston | |
Clubs as active | ||
1986–1991 SC Rist Wedel 1991–1992 Telekom Karlsruhe 1992–1994 TSV Speyer 1994–1995 University of Massachusetts 1995–1999 TVG Basketball Trier |
Olaf Möller (born November 19, 1968 in Hamburg ) is a former German basketball player .
Career
Olaf Möller played his entire youth at SC Rist Wedel . From 1986 to 1991 he was already active in the 2nd North Basketball League after the club's promotion . In 1991 he was appointed to the U22 national team under coach Svetislav Pesic and in the same year moved to Telekom Karlsruhe in the 2nd Bundesliga South. After only one year in Karlsruhe, the 2.03 m tall center player moved to TSV Speyer , where he stood out as the best German player in the points / game and rebounds / game categories in the 1993/1994 season.
This was followed by a year at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, where Möller played in the NCAA (2nd Division). 1995 coach Don Beck brought the agile center player back to Germany, where Olaf Möller played from 1995 to 1999 at TVG Basketball Trier in the basketball league . Möller, who was one of the starting five of the TVG Trier and one of the best defensive players in the league throughout his time in the 1st Bundesliga, helped the club to establish itself in the top German and to make it to the playoffs and participation for three years in a row qualify for the European Cup.
Life
Möller, who studied industrial engineering at the University of Karlsruhe in addition to his basketball career and graduated in 1998, ended his career after the 1998/1999 season in order to reorient himself professionally. Today Möller is managing partner of the company Carl FH Möller GmbH (promotional products wholesalers) after positions in the management consultancy Simon-Kucher & Partners and Philips Semiconductors. He is married and has two children.
successes
In 1991 Olaf Möller was appointed to the German U22 national basketball team for the first time. He took part in the unofficial World Cup in Greece in 1991. At club level, the greatest success was winning the DBB Cup with TVG Trier in 1998.
Web links
- Olaf Möller - player profile on Basketball-Bundesliga.de
- Quarter-finals TBB-Pokal TVG Trier vs. Baskets Bonn Scouting
- Fanclub Fastback Trier Successes season 97/98
- Olaf Möller on XING Xing profile
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2009 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.
- ↑ 50 years of SC Rist ... with Olaf Möller . In: SC Rist Wedel . ( scrist.de [accessed on February 23, 2018]).
- ↑ http://werbeartikel-hamburg.com/leistungen/impressum-2
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ http://www.fastbreak-trier.de/archiv/history/Ueberblick9798.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Möller, Olaf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German basketball player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 19th November 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |