Roman Horvat

Roman Horvat
Player information
birthday	November 21, 1971
place of birth	Ljubljana, SFR Yugoslavia
size	201 cm
position	Small forward
Clubs as active
1991-1997 KK Smelt Olimpija Ljubljana 1997-1998 KD Hopsi Polzela 1998-1999 Hapoel Tel Aviv 1999-2000 AE Achilléas Kaïmaklíou 2000 Türk Telekomspor 2000-2001 KK Triglav Kranj 2001 Opel Skyliners 2001 to 2002 KK Triglav Kranj 2002 WiredMinds Tübingen 2002 Giessen 46ers in 2002 –2003 Heraklion Crete 2003 HKK Široki Brijeg 2003–2004 KK Triglav Kranj 2004–2006 Debreceni Vadkakasok 2006–2007 KK Triglav Kranj 2007–2008 KK Parklij Ljubljana 2008–2014 KK Šenčur Gorenjska Kranj 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000
National team
1991-1999	Slovenia

Roman Horvat (born November 21, 1971 in Ljubljana , SR Slovenia ) is a former Slovenian basketball player . The former Slovenian international initially played professionally for clubs in his Slovenian homeland before continuing his career from 1999 in Israel , Cyprus , Turkey , Greece , Germany and Hungary . The multiple Slovenian champion won the FIBA European Cup 1994 , later also known as the Saporta Cup , with KK Olimpija from his hometown . He ended his active career as a player in 2014 in his adopted home Kranj with the suburban club KK Šenčur, for which he also worked as a functionary. In Germany, he is known, among other things, for the fact that an unrecognized assignment led to point deductions and the relegation of the first division team WiredMinds Tübingen in 2002.

Career

Horvat was one of two Slovenes in the Yugoslav junior selection, which, reinforced by the younger age groups Dejan Bodiroga and Željko Rebrača , achieved fifth place at the U19 European Championship finals in the Netherlands in 1990 after three defeats at the beginning with four wins. After Slovenia gained independence in 1991, Horvat was one of the top performers in the men's selection alongside Teoman Alibegović and Jure Zdovc , which only narrowly missed qualifying for the 1992 Olympic Games, unlike the German selection . With the club team KK Smelt Olimpija in his hometown Horvat won the following national championships after independence, all of which except for 1996 as a double in connection with winning the national cup competition. In the qualification for the former national championship competition of FIBA , which was now played as a European league with several clubs from one country, you failed twice before reaching the group stage and were then allowed to continue playing in the former cup winners competition , which at that time was officially FIBA ​​European Cup was called. After being third in the group in 1993, they narrowly missed the semi-finals of this competition, and in the 1993/94 season they moved into the semi-finals as group winners in front of Taugrés Vitoria . Both teams saw each other again in the final in Lausanne , in which KK Olimpija won their first international title in a 91-81 success, thanks in part to 33 individual points from his then 22-year-old top scorer Roman Horvat. In the following season it was enough for Olimpija to qualify for the group stage of the 16 best European teams in the Europa League, in which they only got three wins in 14 games. A year later, the group stage of the European Cup was no longer any better than in the previous Europa League. In the Europa League of the 1996/97 season with 24 teams in four groups in the main round, third party not only reached the play-offs , but also made up for the home advantage of the opposing teams against KK Cibona Zagreb and Stefanel Milan and entered the Final Four tournament move into Rome . There they lost the semi-finals against the eventual title winner Olympiacos Piraeus to MVP David Rivers and after the success over ASVEL they could secure the third place. Horvat had lost his place in the starting five and although Marko Milič moved to the NBA , Horvat also left the club and initially played for runner-up KD Hopsi in Polzela , before he too after a year and another runner-up in 1998 as a result of the new freedom of movement moved abroad due to the Bosman decision .

After a season with Hapoel in Israel's Tel Aviv Horvat played in the 1999/2000 season for Achilleas from Kaimakli on Cyprus . Thanks to almost 21 individual points on average per game from Horvat, Achilleas survived the group stage in the Saporta Cup and was eliminated in the following knockout. - Round against Hapoel Jerusalem . In the following season Horvat initially had three missions on the Turkish mainland for Türk Telekomspor from the capital Ankara in the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi and also played for KK Triglav in his home country in Kranj, before he played for KK Triglav after the turn of the year from March 2001 until the end of the season the Opel Skyliners from Frankfurt am Main played in the German basketball league . With the Skyliners, Horvat retired as the main round eight in the first play-off round for the 2000/01 Bundesliga championship against defending champion Alba Berlin . After he initially returned to KK Triglav for the following season, he was committed to another Bundesliga club at the end of February 2002, Frankfurt's first division competitor WiredMinds from Tübingen . As a result, a legal dispute arose between his club and the league organization of the basketball Bundesliga over an effective authorization to use. According to the club, the latter had sent the late registration fax from Horvat in good time before the end of the changeover period; the league management could not confirm the timely receipt of the late registration and therefore refused Horvat the right to use. The Tübingen saw themselves in the right and used the player anyway, which is why they were denied victories. These point deductions, especially in the relegation round of the basketball Bundesliga 2001/02 , finally brought about the descent of the Tübingen as bottom of the table. At the beginning of the following season 2002/03 Horvat had five missions for the previous league competitor 46ers from Giessen in October 2002 before he moved to Crete to Iraklion in the Greek A1 Ethniki . With this team he reached relegation third from bottom of the table in 2003, which, however, had been the worst placement since the rise in 1997 for the club.

At the beginning of the 2003/04 season Horvat played in Herzegovina for the Bosnian champions from Široki Brijeg in the Croatian part of Bosnia, including in the 2003/04 Adriatic Basketball League . Široki remained largely unsuccessful in the supranational Adriatic League and Horvat initially returned to Kranj for KK Triglav, before playing two seasons in Debrecen, Hungary, for Vadkakasok from 2004 . The team also competed in international competitions, with the ULEB Cup 2004/05 after only two preliminary round victories, including one with the former German series champion Alba Berlin, being eliminated early in ten games. A year later they reached the quarter-finals in the rather insignificant FIBA EuroCup Challenge 2005/06, in which they lost to the Finnish representative Lappeenrannan NMKY after two legs . In the national championship, however, they remained without title success and after two years Horvat finally returned to his Slovenian homeland. Here he ended his active career at KK Triglav, the capital club Parklij and back in Kranj for KK Šenčur, where he was also active as a junior coach and functionary for the latter.

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Roman Horvat - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• HORVAT, ROMAN - Player profile on the website of the Euro League ( English )
• Roman Horvat - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Associated Press : EUROPEAN BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT: Slovenia Defeats Germany, 88-76. Los Angeles Times , July 1, 1992, accessed January 2, 2016 (English, repro). 
2. ↑ archive.fiba.com: Players - Roman HORVAT (SLO). FIBA , accessed on January 2, 2016 (English, “double” overview page of international missions). 
3. ^ European Cup for Men's Clubs (1994): Scoreboard - Final. FIBA Europe , accessed on December 16, 2015 (English, game statistics). 
4. ^ Roman Horvat / Saporta Cup (2000). FIBA Europe , accessed on December 16, 2015 (English, competition statistics). 
5. ^ Horvat, Roman - Turkish Basketball League Player. TBLStat.net, accessed on January 2, 2016 (English, individual seasonal statistics). 
6. ↑ On Saturday, ALBA will play against Tübingen. schoenen-dunk.de, March 14, 2002, accessed on January 2, 2016 (Medien-Info Alba Berlin). 
7. ↑ Basketball: point deduction for Tübingen. Rheinische Post , May 10, 2002, accessed on January 2, 2016 (notification). 
8. ^ ABA - Player: Roman Horvat. (No longer available online.) ABA League , archived from the original on January 2, 2016 ; accessed on January 2, 2016 (English, player profile). 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.  
9. ↑ Benedikt Voigt: Hard landing. Der Tagesspiegel , December 23, 2004, accessed on January 2, 2016 .