Patrick Femerling

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Basketball player
Patrick Femerling
Player information
Full name Patrick Oliver Femerling
birthday 4th March 1975 (age 45)
place of birth Hamburg , Germany
size 215 cm
Weight 116 kg
position center
college Washington
NBA draft undrafted, 1999
Clubs as active
0 0 0–1995 ART Düsseldorf 1995–1998 Washington Huskies ( NCAA ) 1998–2000 Alba Berlin 2000–2002 Olympiakos Piraeus 2002–2004 FC Barcelona 2004–2006 Panathinaikos Athens 2006–2007 Caja San Fernando Sevilla 2007–2009 Alba Berlin 2009–2010 Antalya BŞB 2010 –2011 Alba Berlin GermanyGermany
United StatesUnited States
GermanyGermany
GreeceGreece
SpainSpain
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GermanyGermany
TurkeyTurkey
GermanyGermany
National team
1996-2009 GermanyGermany Germany 221 games
Clubs as coaches
2013–2017 Alba Berlin (youth) Since 2017 Germany (assistant coach) Since 2018 Germany U16 GermanyGermany
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Patrick Femerling medal table

Basketball (men)

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World Championship
bronze 2002 United States Germany
European Championship
silver 2005 Serbia and Montenegro Germany

Patrick Oliver Femerling (born March 4, 1975 in Hamburg ) is a former German basketball player and today's coach.

As of 2012, Femerling is the record player for the German national basketball team with 221 appearances and won a World Cup bronze medal and an EM silver medal with the national team .

At club level, he and his respective teams won the national championships in Germany, Spain and Greece several times and once in 2003 the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague .

Player career

Club career

Femerling began his basketball career at the Allgemeine Rather Turnverein in Düsseldorf , where he finally played in the regional league with the senior team. In 1995 he moved to the United States at the University of Washington and played during his study stay for the university team Huskies , for which his compatriots Detlef Schrempf and Christian Welp had already been active, in the NCAA Division I. 1996 and 1997 he was the best Defender of the team honored and received the "John Meyers Award" for each.

In 1998 he returned to Germany and became a professional at ALBA Berlin, with whom he won two championships and one cup in two seasons. In 2000 Femerling moved for the first time to other European countries to the Greek club Olympiacos Piraeus. In the following years, the Spanish club FC Barcelona and Panathinaikos Athens were again in Greece stations in Femerling's career every two years . During these years he won two Spanish and two Greek national championships as well as the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2003 .

In the 2006/07 season Femerling was again active in the Spanish ACB league at Caja San Fernando Sevilla , before returning to ALBA Berlin for the following season, with which he won another German championship in 2008 and another national cup title in 2009. In the 2009/10 season he was active in the Turkish league in Antalya before returning to ALBA for a season as team captain. However, this was his last for ALBA, because in the following season 2011/12 he did not get a new contract and finally ended his active career.

National team

The 2.15-meter-tall center played 221 international matches for the German national team and is therefore (as of 2020) a record national player. On August 25, 2007 he played his 182nd international match, surpassing the previous record national player Hansi Gnad .

On July 16 the following year, he was the first German to play his 200th international match as part of the Olympic qualification. As captain of the national team, he won the bronze medal at the 2002 World Cup, together with Dirk Nowitzki and his teammates, and the silver medal at the 2005 European Championship finals as Vice European Champion. Another highlight of his national team career was the 2008 Olympic Games , which ended prematurely after only one win and three defeats in the preliminary round.

Femerling returned to the national team for the 2009 European Championship finals in Poland , but with an otherwise rejuvenated squad without Dirk Nowitzki, reaching the intermediate round was only a respectable success. After the tournament Femerling ended his national team career for good.

Coaching career

After Femerling ended his active career in the summer of 2011, he accepted an offer from the sports broadcaster Sport 1 . There he was heard and seen as a co-commentator and expert on basketball broadcasts. In addition, Femerling began to acquire coaching licenses for the performance area in basketball, and he also began studying at the Cologne coaching academy .

For the 2013/2014 season he became the new head coach of the JBBL team at Alba Berlin and thus managed to enter the coaching sector. In 2015 he took over Alba's team in the youth basketball league and from 2016 looked after the club's second men's team in the 1st regional league. After the 2016/17 season, his expiring contract was not extended by Alba Berlin.

In November 2017 he became assistant coach for the German senior team under national coach Henrik Rödl . In February 2018 he was also appointed full-time national coach for young men and took over the post of head coach of the German U16 national team.

Others

Femerling usually always wore the number 13 jersey in his respective teams. In addition, he always wore his stockings pulled up to his knees on the field, which was particularly noticeable given his enormous body length and earned him the nickname "sock".

successes

Awards

  • Participation in European championships: 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009
  • Participation in world championships: 2002, 2006
  • Participation in the Olympic Games: 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GoHuskies.com | University of Washington Athletics. In: www.gohuskies.com. Retrieved January 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Femerling ends basketball career . ( bz-berlin.de [accessed on January 13, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Patrick Femerling is the new German record national: ALBA BERLIN basketball team. In: albaberlin.de. Internet Archive, August 26, 2007, accessed May 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Sport1.de: "In Bavaria the pressure is even higher". September 29, 2012, accessed May 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ TheDBBTV: News from DBB TV: A day with Patrick Femerling. May 16, 2013, accessed January 13, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Patrick Femerling becomes JBBL head coach: ALBA BERLIN basketball team. In: albaberlin.de. Internet Archive, July 22, 2013, accessed May 7, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Start of the season: this is how the youth performance program is organized: ALBA BERLIN basketball team. In: albaberlin.de. Internet Archive, September 23, 2015, accessed May 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Start of the season for ALBA 2 and Lok Bernau: ALBA BERLIN basketball team. In: www.albaberlin.de. Internet Archive, September 22, 2016, accessed May 7, 2020 .
  9. ↑ http://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin-sport/alba-berlin/spaeter-alba-kein-neuer-vertrag-fuer-rekordpieler-femerling
  10. ↑ http://www.basketball-bund.de/news/dbb-herren-roedl-nominiert-kader-179685
  11. ↑ Patrick Femerling is the next generation national coach of the German Basketball Association. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Sebastian Arlt and Dietmar Wenck: Patrick Femerling is developing into a gentle giant . In: THE WORLD . January 15, 2008 ( welt.de [accessed February 15, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Femerling, Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Femerling, Patrick Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg