Osaro Jürgen Rich

Player information
Osaro Jürgen Rich
Full name	Osaro Jürgen Rich Igbineweka
birthday	July 22, 1998 (22 years and 41 days)
place of birth	Lübeck, Germany
size	185 cm
position	Guard
Club information
society	Hamburg Towers
league	Basketball Bundesliga
Jersey number	3
Clubs as active
Until 2016 TuS Lübeck Since 2016 SC Rist Wedel Since 2017 Hamburg Towers00 Germany 00Germany 00Germany

Osaro Jürgen Rich Igbineweka (born July 22, 1998 in Lübeck ) is a German basketball player of Nigerian descent. He has been part of the first division club Hamburg Towers since summer 2017 .

Player career

Rich grew up in Lübeck , where he first played basketball ( Lübecker TS ) and football ( Lübeck Cougars ). Ultimately, he decided to focus on his basketball career. In the 2013/14 season he was also entitled to play for BG Suchsdorf-Kronshagen in the youth basketball league (JBBL) with a “double license” and scored an average of 22.1 points per match for the team over the course of the season.

In 2014, Rich, whose middle name Jürgen was given by his father based on Jürgen Klinsmann , joined Piraten Hamburg, the youth department of Hamburg Towers , and played first in the JBBL, then also in the NBBL ( youth basketball league ) for the Pirates.

In the 2015/16 game round, in addition to his assignments for the Hamburg team, he also gained experience in the men's area, for TuS Lübeck in the 2nd regional league.

In the run-up to the 2016/17 season, Rich secured a place in the squad of SC Rist Wedel ( 2nd Bundesliga ProB ) and was also a top performer at Piraten Hamburg in the NBBL.

In the summer of 2017 he was accepted into the Hamburg Towers squad ( 2nd Bundesliga ProA ) and retained his second game right for Rist Wedel, a cooperation club of the Towers.

He won the championship title of the 2nd Bundesliga ProA with the Towers in the 2018/19 season and made it to the basketball Bundesliga . He contributed an average of 1.5 points in 14 appearances during the title season. In addition, he played 23 games for Rist Wedel in the 2nd Bundesliga ProB in the 2018/19 season , where he achieved averages of 12.2 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.8 assists per match. At the end of July 2019, he extended his contract with the Towers for two years.

National team

In 2019 he was appointed to the German U23 national team in the basketball game "3-on-3" .

Web links

easyCredit BBL - Osaro Jürgen Rich - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
Osaro Jürgen Rich - player profile on the website of the BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga ( ProA and ProB )

Individual evidence

↑ NBBL / JBBL - Player Statistics - -. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .
^ Lübecker Nachrichten, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany: LT twins aim high. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .
↑ American Sports Club Lübeck eV Cougars Football - U16 conceded 23:55 against Rookie Devils. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .
↑ NBBL / JBBL - Player Statistics - - Piraten Hamburg. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .
↑ A Lübeck Young 'and the mad rise of the Hamburg Towers. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
↑ NBBL / JBBL - Player Statistics - - Piraten Hamburg. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .
↑ Start of the second half of the season failed - Lübeck in the table cellar . In: HL-SPORTS - Current sports news from and for Lübeck . ( hlsports.de [accessed December 23, 2017]).
↑ Frederik Büll: Two talents remain with the SC Rist . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed December 23, 2017]).
↑ Igbineweka moves high in the Towers squad - HAMBURG TOWERS . In: HAMBURG TOWERS . July 20, 2017 ( hamburgtowers.de [accessed December 23, 2017]). Igbineweka moves up to the Towers squad - HAMBURG TOWERS ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2017 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. @1@ 2
↑ https://www.2basketballbundesliga.de/teams/kader/player/3733/
↑ Hamburg Towers. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .
↑ 3 × 3 course in Bielefeld. German Basketball Association, accessed on May 10, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rich, Osaro Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rich Igbineweka, Osaro Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH	July 22, 1998

[1] NBBL / JBBL - Player Statistics - -. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .

[2] Lübecker Nachrichten, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany: LT twins aim high. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .

[3] American Sports Club Lübeck eV Cougars Football - U16 conceded 23:55 against Rookie Devils. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .

[4] NBBL / JBBL - Player Statistics - - Piraten Hamburg. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .

[5] A Lübeck Young 'and the mad rise of the Hamburg Towers. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .

[6] NBBL / JBBL - Player Statistics - - Piraten Hamburg. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .

[7] Start of the second half of the season failed - Lübeck in the table cellar . In: HL-SPORTS - Current sports news from and for Lübeck . ( hlsports.de [accessed December 23, 2017]).

[8] Frederik Büll: Two talents remain with the SC Rist . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed December 23, 2017]).

[9] Igbineweka moves high in the Towers squad - HAMBURG TOWERS . In: HAMBURG TOWERS . July 20, 2017 ( hamburgtowers.de [accessed December 23, 2017]). Igbineweka moves up to the Towers squad - HAMBURG TOWERS ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2017 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. @1@ 2

[10] ttps://www.2basketballbundesliga.de/teams/kader/player/3733/

[11] Hamburg Towers. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .

[12] 3 × 3 course in Bielefeld. German Basketball Association, accessed on May 10, 2019 .