Rassem Yahya

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Basketball player
Rassem Yahya
Player information
birthday August 24, 1938
size 175 cm
position Point Guard /
Shooting Guard
Clubs as active
1959–1961 Mainzer TV 1817 1961–1965 USC Heidelberg 1965–1970 VFL OsnabrückGermanyGermany
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Syria 1932Syria Syria

Rassem Yahya (born August 24, 1938 ) is a Syrian national basketball player and German Bundesliga player from Palestine. In his youth he was a very good long jumper (> 7.00 m). His during his time as first division in Mainz and Heidelberg (Oberliga Southwest) closed it at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz begun studying medicine off his doctorate in 1964 at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and completed after the approval of a medical education leading to the Specialist in surgery led. In Osnabrück , while he was still active as a Bundesliga player, he worked first as a ward doctor , later as senior doctor and after the end of his basketball career - before starting his own professional practice in Erkelenz - as chief doctor in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

Life and Sports Career

Rassem Yahya (1.75 m) was a fast, extremely strong attacking player. He was considered a particularly accurate distance shooter as well as a strong basket attacker, even in extremely difficult attack situations, and a radically assertive fast break player. His style of play was considered elegant, spectacular and extremely attractive for the audience. Due to his jumping strength, Yahya was able to extremely delay the time of the basket throw after the jump when breaking through to the basket. He was one of the few top players in Germany who always brought the ball “hard” to the board with a lot of twist when attacking the basket in order to achieve a high degree of control of the ball with the help of ball rotation. Yahya played in attack, depending on the tactical concept, usually in the second playmaker position or somewhat withdrawn in the backcourt on the left wing. According to basketball experts, Rassem Yahya was for many years the best basketball player in Germany in the area of ​​the German Basketball Federation (DBB). He was often referred to as a "basketball virtuoso " in press articles . Rassem Yahya played seven "grand finals" of the DBB.

TV 1817 Mainz

In the period from 1959 to 1961, two seasons, the former Syrian national player - the always successful game of the top scorer found great interest nationwide - in the Oberliga Südwest, the top German division of the DBB, in the first phase of his stay in the Federal Republic of Germany , initially for the Mainzer TV 1817 e. V.

USC Heidelberg

Anton Kartak , head coach of the Universitäts Sportclub Heidelberg 1899 e.V. in the 1959/1960 league season . V. (USC), became aware of Rassem Yahya after the players of the reigning German basketball champions of the DBB in Mainz , against the team of TV 1817 Mainz, lost their only game of this season with 67:60. The Mainz medical student was the outstanding player in this game and the decisive player on the floor for the Mainz basketball players. The later sports manager and president of the German Basketball Federation succeeded in the 1961/1962 Oberliga season in persuading the exceptional basketball player Yahya to continue his studies in Heidelberg and play for the USC Heidelberg in the Oberliga-Südwest and in the European Cup of National Champions.

With the USC Heidelberg, Rassem Yahya became champion of the German Basketball Federation at the end of the 1961/1962 season. The Heidelberg basketball team won the final in Wiesbaden against the Alemannia Aachen team 69:65 (27:36), the Aachen team with their "stars" John Loridon ( Belgium) and Gene Moss ( USA) as well as the DBB national players Rolf Bader, Hans Brydniak , Hans Grüttner or Klaus Schulz. Rassem Yahya scored forty-two points together with Klaus Weinand in this DBB final (it was the sixth DBB championship in direct succession for USC Heidelberg).

In the FIBA European Champions Cup , Rassem Yahya played with USC Heidelberg in the "First Round" against BBC Etzella ( Luxembourg ) in 1962 and lost with his teammates in the round of 16 against the later semi-finalists of the ASK Olimpija Ljubljana ( Slovenia ) competition, including Ivo Daneu , after home and away games (In the 1962/1963 season, USC Heidelberg decided not to take part in the FIBA European Champion’s Cup.).

The teammates of the basketball player from Palestine at USC Heidelberg from 1961 to 1965 included: Phil Day, Günter Ehrt, Ludwig Gundacker, Volker Heindel , Dietfried Kienast, Werner Lamade , Jürgen Langhoff , Hans Leciejewski , Jürgen Loibl , the Fritz brothers and Hannes Neumann , Klaus Perignon, Gerd Pflaumer, Oskar Roth (player-coach 1961/1962 and 1962/1963), Peter Spaeder, Horst Stein , Harald Ströming, Klaus Urmitzer , Til Westermann and Manfred Ziegler (the players Heindel and H. Neumann could, six championships in direct succession, reaching the German basketball championship of the DBB seven times with your club.). The trainers at USC Heidelberg during this period were Oskar Roth and Theodor Schober.

VfL Osnabrück

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Weinand
Koppermann
Böttger
Yahya
Uhlig
"Starting Five" VfL Osnabrück
DM final against MTV Gießen on April 20, 1969 in Gießen
Sports honor plaque of the city of Osnabrück in gold, awarded on January 16, 1970

In 1965, one season before the establishment of the two-part basketball league , Rassem Yahya switched to the basketball team at VfL Osnabrück (VfL), with whose league team he became the first DBB cup winner in 1967 and the German Basketball Association champion in 1969. With VfL Osnabrück - during the tenure of VfL President Friedel Schwarze, VfL was successfully represented with two of its men's teams in the national leagues of the German Basketball Federation and the German Table Tennis Federation - he was a total of six times in a "grand finale" of the DBB. In addition to winning the cup in 1967 and the championship in 1969, Rassem Yahya and his VfL team-mates were able to win the DBB runner-up championship in 1967 and 1968; both finals were played against MTV Gießen and the DBB cup final in 1969 and 1970 , behind MTV Gießen and TuS 04 Leverkusen , achieved second place.

He took part twice with the VfL championship team in the European Champions Cup and the European Cup of national cup winners , playing against Slavia Prague , Solna Stockholm and Honvéd Budapest . In 1968 the VfL players were able to reach the round of 16 in the European competition for national cup winners.

At VfL Osnabrück, Rassem Yahya played with the players Klaus Ansmann, Karel Baroch, Wilfried Böttger, Rolf Dieter , Volkmar Gaber, Hans Gröneweg, Michael Haferkamp, Egon Homm , Eckhard Husemann, Günter Kollmann , Ingbert Koppermann , Eckhard Meyer, Wolfgang Plock, Ulrich Renner , Harald Rupp , Helmut Uhlig and Klaus Weinand together. From 1968 to 1969, Miloslav Kříž , a doctor of law from Prague , was the head coach of the Osnabrück basketball team. Before that, from 1965 to 1967, the training of VfL basketball players was headed by captain Helmut Uhlig.

The surgeon was always the oldest player in the VfL Bundesliga team in all seasons. Along with Wilfried Böttger, Egon Homm, Ingbert Koppermann and Klaus Weinand, he is part of the VfL core team, whose five players played in the VfL team on the first BBL matchday in autumn 1966 and subsequently on all the successes in the “legendary” Osnabrück Bundesliga -Teams were involved. A special feature was that Rassem Yahya, as senior physician at the Osnabrück City Hospital, had to keep on duty as a "background doctor" for the clinic during a series of Bundesliga home games according to night and weekend duty, so that he could be available at short notice if required can.

After the final successes of the VfL team, the 1967 DBB Cup winner and 1969 German basketball champion of the DBB, Rassem Yahya and his teammates were won by Osnabrück's Lord Mayor Wilhelm Kelch ( 1959 to 1972 ), each as part of a separate honor in the Osnabrücker Friedenssaal City Hall , "as a sign of special recognition for outstanding sporting achievements", the city ​​of Osnabrück awarded the gold medal of honor. Rassem Yahya is one of the VfL Osnabrück athletes, basketball and table tennis Bundesliga players who stand for a " golden era of Osnabrück sport " (Mayor Kelch, January 1970) in the second half of the 1960s.

Trivia

After the end of his time as a basketball player in the Bundesliga, Rassem Yahya remained active as a tennis player and especially as a golfer (with a single-digit handicap ). In the second half of the 1970s, 1976 to 1978, he played among other things with former teammates of the basketball league in a "leisure basketball team" with good success in the Hamburg city league. As a maxi basketball player , the surgeon was never active and took part in the DBB age group tournaments of the Federal Best Basketball Games because as a surgeon he did not want to expose himself to a particular risk of injury.

Rassem Yahya continues to live in Erkelenz ( district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ) with his wife after his many years of freelance specialist work .

successes

German Championships (DBB)

  • German Champion 1962 (USC)
  • German Vice Champion 1967 (VfL)
  • German Vice-Champion 1968 (VfL)
  • German champion 1969 (VfL)

Cup championships

  • DBB Cup Winner 1967 (VfL)
  • DBB Vice-Cup Winner 1969 (VfL)
  • DBB Vice-Cup Winner 1970 (VfL)

See also

literature

  • " Basketball " - "Official body of the German Basketball Federation" (born 1959 to 1975) - ISSN  0178-9279

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Basketball history of the USC Heidelberg ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. USC Heidelberg website. Retrieved January 30, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.usc-hd.de
  2. ↑ Basketball / guest players - ten percent . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1969 ( online ).
  3. ^ German basketball championships and DBB cup winners - champions and cup winners . Sports Complete website - sports and sporting events, data basketball. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
  4. ↑ FIBA Champions Cup 1961–1962 First Round and Round of 16: USC Heidelberg against BBC Etzella Ettelbruck (Luxembourg) and ASK Olimpija Ljubljana. Linguasport website - Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
  5. ↑ Men Basketball European Champions Cup 1962 USC Heidelberg against BBC Etzella Ettelbruck, Luxembourg and ASK Olimpija Ljubljana, formerly Yugoslavia. Sport Statistics - International Competitions Archive website. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
  6. ↑ Wilhelm Heckmann: VfL basketball player failed with 85:73 at MTV Gießen . In "NT" - Neue Tagespost - Sport am Montag, Osnabrücker Sportzeitung, No. 101, published May 1, 1967.
  7. ↑ Klaus Manthey: VfL basketball player first DBB cup winner - 86:74 against ATV Düsseldorf crowns the first Bundesliga season . In "OT" - Osnabrücker Tageblatt, published June 12, 1967.
  8. ^ After the runner-up championship: VfL DBB Cup winner, 86:74 success in the basketball final against ATV Düsseldorf . In "NT" - Neue Tagespost - Sport am Montag, Osnabrücker Sportzeitung, published June 12, 1967.
  9. ^ Hartwin Kiel, Jürgen Bitter and Bernd Stühlmeyer: VfL basketball player again runner-up - Giessen won 79:69 . In “NOZ” - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , Sport Report, p. 11, published April 29, 1968.
  10. ↑ For the fourth time MTV 1846 against VfL Osnabrück - will MTV 1846 succeed again in the master crown? In Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 90, p. 9, published April 18, 1969.
  11. ↑ The VfL basketball players are German champions. In: "NOZ" - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, 3rd volume, no. 42, p. 1, published April 21, 1969.
  12. ↑ Henner Gramsch: Sovereign VfL took the master from the throne - 69 Gießen: 76 VfL . In "NOZ" - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, Sport Report, p. 15, published April 21, 1969.
  13. ↑ Henner Gramsch: 74:75 Seven seconds were missing - VfL basketball players lost the final for the DBB Cup . In "NOZ" - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, Sport Report, p. 9, published June 16, 1969.
  14. ↑ Men Basketball European Cup Winners Cup 1968 Website Sports Statistics - International Competitions Archive. VfL Osnabrück versus Solna IF Stockholm u. TJ Slavia VS Praha. Retrieved December 25, 2010.
  15. ^ FIBA Champions Cup 1969–70 Website Linguasport, Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
  16. ↑ FIBA Cup Winners' Cup 1967–1968 First Round and Round of 16: VfL Osnabrück against Solna IF Stockholm (Sweden) and TJ Slavia VS Praha (formerly CSSR). Linguasport website - Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
  17. ↑ Men Basketball European Cup Winners Cup 1968 Website Sports Statistics - International Competitions Archive. VfL Osnabrück versus Solna IF Stockholm and TJ Slavia VS Praha. Retrieved December 25, 2010.
  18. ↑ European Cup Winners' Cup Basketball 1967-68 in the English language Wikipedia.
  19. ↑ FIBA European Champions Cup 1969/1970 in the English language Wikipedia.
  20. ↑ FIBA Champions Cup 1969–1970 VfL Osnabrück versus Honved SE Budapest, Hungary. Website Website Linguasport - Sport History and Statistics. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
  21. ↑ Men Basketball European Champions Cup 1970 ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. VfL Osnabrück versus Honved SE Budapest, Hungary. Sport Statistics - International Competitions Archive website. Retrieved December 21, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / todor66.com
  22. ^ Wilhelm Heckmann: Yakovos Bilek: " VfL lacks a coach ". In "NT" - Sport am Montag, Osnabrücker Sportzeitung, No. 101, published May 1, 1967.
  23. ↑ Klaus Manthey: Curtain up on the basketball Bundesliga: VfL in Oldenburg - Osnabrückers have worries: Dr. Yahya and Dieter struck . In "OT" - Osnabrücker Tageblatt, published September 30, 1966.
  24. ↑ Certificate of honor Sports plaque of the city of Osnabrück in silver , Osnabrück, January 10, 1969, Oberstadtdirektor Joachim Fischer and Lord Mayor Wilhelm Kelch.
  25. ↑ Certificate of Honor Sports plaque of the city of Osnabrück in gold , Osnabrück, January 16, 1970, Oberstadtdirektor Joachim Fischer and Lord Mayor Wilhelm Kelch.
  26. ↑ 100 years VfL: Purple-white history (n) ( Memento of 16 July 2013 Web archive archive.today ) Farewell to VfL President Friedel Black. Website NOZ - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Yahya, rassem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1938