Roel Moors

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Roel Moors (born December 16, 1978 in Herentals ) is a Belgian former basketball player . He is the trainer of the BG Göttingen .

career

player

Moors began his career as a professional basketball player in 1996 at Nieuw Brabo Antwerp. In 1997/98 he played with Bree BBC , 1999 with Cuva Houthalen, 1999/2000 with Excelsior Brussels in the lower Belgian leagues. In 2000, when he switched to Racing Basket Antwerp, he made the leap into the highest Belgian basketball league , the Ethias League . 2002-06 and again in 2007/08 he played for Spirou BC Charleroi and won the Belgian championship and the Belgian basketball cup twice with the club. In 2006/07 he played for the French first division ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne , in 2007 he returned to Belgium and played for the Leuven Bears . In 2008/09 he played for Optima Gent . In 2009 he moved to the Antwerp Giants , where he ended his playing career in 2015. During his time with the Giants, he also played for the Belgian national basketball team at the 2011 European Basketball Championships in Lithuania and 2013 in Slovenia.

Moors mostly played as point guard , his shirt number was 4.

Trainer

After the end of his playing career, Moors initially remained as an assistant coach, and from November 2015 as head coach at the Antwerp Giants . In 2016, he managed to win the Belgian Super Cup against Telenet Oostende with the Giants . In the 2019 Champions League , the Giants reached the semi-finals and beat Brose Bamberg in the game for third place .

On June 20, 2019 it was announced that Moors had signed a two-year contract as a trainer with Brose Bamberg. In June 2020, the contract was terminated by the club. The reason given was that the team had not developed as hoped under Moors. At the time of the interruption of the 2019/20 season due to the spread of Covid-19 , Moors and Bamberg were in seventh place in the Bundesliga. At the season-end tournament in June 2020, the team was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Oldenburg. He moved to the BG Göttingen and became the successor to his Bamberg successor Johan Roijakkers there in summer 2020 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roel Moors is the new Head Coach at Brose Bamberg , Brose Bamberg Basketball, accessed June 21, 2019
  2. ↑ Brose Bamberg ends collaboration with Roel Moors. Retrieved June 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ easyCredit - Total table. Retrieved June 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Brose Bamberg fails because of Oldenburg. Retrieved June 23, 2020 .
  5. Jump up coaches: Veilchen sign Roel Moors as head coach. In: BG Göttingen. July 13, 2020, accessed on July 13, 2020 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME Moors, Roel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian basketball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Herentals in Belgium