Richard Freudenberg (basketball player)

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Basketball player
Richard Freudenberg
Player information
Full name Richard Nikolaus Freudenberg
birthday August 31, 1998
place of birth Heidelberg, Germany
size 202 cm
position wing
college new York
Club information
society Skyliners Frankfurt
league Basketball Bundesliga
Clubs as active
2011–2016 FC Bayern JBBL / NBBL 2015–2016 FC Bayern Munich 2016–2017 St. John's Red Storm ( NCAA ) since 2017 Skyliners FrankfurtGermanyGermany
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United StatesUnited States
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Richard Nikolaus Freudenberg (born August 31, 1998 in Heidelberg ) is a German basketball player . He has been playing for Bundesliga club Skyliners Frankfurt since 2017 .

Freudenberg, who took his first steps in basketball at TS Jahn Munich, has played for the German men's first division club FC Bayern Munich since he was young. The youth team players won with the youth team of FC Bayern in the junior basketball league (NBBL) 2015, the first championship in this Under-19 age group for the club and has been the age of 16 Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the final tournament Top Four appointed . Almost four months later, at the age of 17, Freudenberg made his debut for FC Bayern in the top German men's basketball division on the first day of the 2015/16 season .

Career

Born like his future Bayern teammate Paul Zipser from Heidelberg, Freudenberg already played as a pupil in the youth teams of FC Bayern, for which he was also active in the U16 youth basketball league (JBBL) from 2011 at the age of 13 . As the youngest player in the squad, Freudenberg was involved with older Tim Hasbargen and Karim Jallow , among others, in ensuring that Bayern's youngsters reached a Top Four final tournament in 2012 for the first time, in which they lost to the youngsters of the Paderborn Baskets and became runner-up. In the following season, the team without Hasbargen failed to make it into the Top Four tournament, before losing to the hosting and unbeaten offspring of the Artland Dragons around the outstanding MVP Isaiah Hartenstein in the semifinals in the 2014 Top Four tournament only after extra time. In his premier season in the older age group of the youth basketball league (NBBL), Freudenberg and his teammates, including Jallow and junior selection player Dejan Kovačević , also made it into the NBBL's Top Four tournament in 2015. After the semi-final victory over defending champion Alba Berlin , a somewhat surprising final success with 69:59 was achieved against the offspring from Eintracht Frankfurt around Niklas Kiel , who had prevented Bayern from winning a JBBL championship at the Paderborn Baskets three years earlier. After Haris Hujić , a player of the younger age group in 1997, had already been elected the season MVP of the NBBL, Freudenberg, as a member of the youngest NBBL age group in 1998, was named MVP of the final tournament after 24 individual points in the final.

As a selection player of the DBB , Freudenberg took part in a European championship final for the first time with the U16 selection in 2013. After the clear defeat against the later European runner-up Serbia in the quarter-finals, the team finished eighth after two more defeats in placement games. Two years later, with the U18 selection at the start of the European Championship finals in Greece, a success against Serbia, but after a narrow defeat with two points difference in the quarter-finals against the eventual third, Lithuania remained for the talented team around Kiel, Hartenstein and Kostja Mushidi after two more defeats also only the eighth place. In the summer of 2015, Freudenberg was already looking for opportunities for further training in the mother country of basketball, the United States , to which his former teammate Hasbargen had already moved after leaving school. Nevertheless, he already moved to the squad of runners-up of the Lords, where he coached Svetislav Pešić already at the start of 2015-16 Basketball Bundesliga debut in two operations in October and his first few minutes in the highest German league basketball league got .

In February 2016, the US medium ESPN announced that Freudenberg would be studying at St. John's University in New York from 2016/17 and would be part of the Red Storm basketball team . In February 2016 he took part in the Basketball Without Borders Global Camp , a performance exhibition of some of the greatest young hopes of the 97, 98 and 99 years worldwide, in Toronto (Canada). In spring 2016 he won the Albert Schweitzer tournament with the German U18 national team .

Freudenberg announced in April 2017 that it would be leaving St. John's University in order to pursue a professional career. In his only season in the NCAA he was for the university team in 26 games on average 9.3 minutes on the field and scored 1.3 points and 1.3 rebounds per game. Shortly thereafter, Bundesliga club Skyliners Frankfurt announced Freudenberg's commitment.

He was used in all seven tournament games of the U19 World Cup in summer 2017 and scored an average of 5.4 points per match. The German team reached fifth place in Cairo . Shortly afterwards, he took part in the U20 European Championship and reached seventh place overall with the German team. He achieved an average of 3.7 points per encounter. In July 2018, he won the bronze medal with the German team at the U20 European Championship in Chemnitz and achieved average values ​​of 6.7 points and 4.3 rebounds per use over the course of the tournament.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NBBL / JBBL Top Four 2015. Junior Basketball League , accessed on November 14, 2015 (tournament overview with reports).
  2. ↑ Teams of JBBL Südost - FC Bayern Munich / Squad: 2011/12 season. (No longer available online.) Junior Basketball League , archived from the original on November 12, 2015 ; accessed on November 14, 2015 (squad overview). 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.nbbl-basketball.de
  3. ↑ Jan Finken: NBBL / JBBL TOP4 2012: JBBL Finale 2012. Junior Basketball League , accessed on November 14, 2015 (match report).
  4. ↑ NBBL / JBBL TOP4 2014. Junior Basketball League , accessed on November 14, 2015 (tournament summary).
  5. ↑ Awards of the youth basketball league. Junior Basketball League , accessed on November 14, 2015 (overview of individual awards).
  6. ^ Norman Rose, Kenneth Garner: Catching up with Richard Freudenberg after his official visit to St. John's. SB Nation: RumbleInTheGarden.com, August 8, 2015, accessed November 14, 2015 .
  7. ^ German forward Freudenberg picks St. John's. In: ESPN.com. Retrieved February 12, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Draft Express: Basketball Without Borders Camp Global Evaluations: Guards and Wings. In: www.draftexpress.com. Retrieved February 28, 2016 .
  9. ↑ AST 2016: Germany first tournament winner! In: www.basketball-bund.de. Retrieved April 2, 2016 .
  10. ^ Freudenberg Leaving St. John's To Pursue Professional Basketball Career . ( redstormsports.com [accessed April 7, 2017]).
  11. ↑ FRAPORT SKYLINERS sign Richard Freudenberg for three years | FRAPORT SKYLINERS. Retrieved April 20, 2017 .
  12. ↑ http://www.fiba.basketball/fr/world/u19/2017/Germany#tab=overview,average_statistics
  13. ↑ http://www.fiba.com/europe/u20/2017/Germany
  14. ↑ U20 EM: WAHNSINN !!! DBB team wins bronze «German Basketball Association. Retrieved July 23, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Richard FREUDENBERG at the FIBA ​​U20 European Championship 2018 - FIBA.basketball. Accessed July 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Freudenberg, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freudenberg, Richard Nikolaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg