Stephen Arigbabu
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| birthday | 15th February 1972 (age 48) | |
| place of birth | Hanover , Germany | |
| size | 208 cm | |
| position | center | |
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1991–1994 SG Braunschweig 1994–1996 SSV Ulm 1846 1996–1998 ALBA Berlin 1998–1999 Papagos Athens 1999–2000 Panionios Athens 2000–2001 AO Dafni Athens 2001–2003 RheinEnergie Cologne 2003–2004 Mitteldeutscher BC 2004–2005 Roseto Basket 2005–2006 ALBA Berlin 2006 Basket Livorno 2006–2009 Olympia Larisa 2009–2010 Marousi Athens  
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| 1990-2007 | Germany | 166 games |
| Clubs as coaches | ||
2010–2012 BSW Sixers 2013– Germany (U18, A2 AC ) 2014–2015 SC RASTA Vechta 2016–2017 Basketball Löwen Braunschweig ( AC ) 2017–2019 s.Oliver Würzburg ( AC ) since 2019 Vasas Akadémia ( AC )
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| 1 Status: July 22, 2008 | ||
| Stephen Arigbabu medal table |
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Germany
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| World Championship | ||
| bronze | 2002 United States | Germany |
| European Championship | ||
| silver | 2005 Serbia and Montenegro | Germany |
Stephen Olumide Arigbabu (born February 15, 1972 in Hanover ) is a German basketball coach and former professional basketball player . He is married and has two children.
Player career
Stephen Arigbabu has been playing basketball since he was 14 . In the course of his career, he has completed 166 international matches for Germany in the center and achieved various successes both with the club and with the national team: He won bronze at the 2002 World Cup and silver at the 2005 European Championship with the DBB selection He finished in the national dress in 2006 and was officially adopted by the national team in Berlin . On August 31, 2007 he was nominated for the 2007 European Basketball Championship in Spain due to the failure of his teammate Sven Schultze . With the national team he reached the 5th place in the game against Croatia .
After the 2009/2010 season, in which he went basket-hunting for Marousi Athens in Greece, he announced the end of his active career on July 7, 2010. After his time as a professional player, Arigbabu occasionally played for the senior team of DBV Charlottenburg .
Coaching career
For the 2010/2011 season he became the new head coach of the regional league team BSW Sixers from Sandersdorf . There he succeeded Chuck Evans , who resigned from his post for personal reasons. With the end of the 2010/2011 season, the Sixers were in 2nd place in the table and went to the Pro B on. After a good 2011/2012 season, in which the Sixers reached the Pro B playoffs straight away, the team was unable to build on their successes in the following season. In December 2012 the contract between Arigbabu and the association was terminated "by mutual agreement".
On May 3, 2013 it was announced that Stephen Arigbabu will work as assistant coach for the German U18 national basketball team. In the 2013/2014 season he spent several months at the Bundesliga basketball team SC RASTA Vechta . For the 2014/15 season he took over as coach there. In January 2015, however, Arigbabu was released from his duties again due to a lack of athletic success.
For the 2016/2017 season, Arigbabu became the new assistant coach of the first division Basketball Löwen Braunschweig , who had previously hired the former national basketball coach Frank Menz as the new head coach .
In the summer of 2016, Stephen Arigbabu was assistant coach for the A2 national team of the German Basketball Federation.
Arigbabu ended his year-long job as Braunschweig assistant coach after the 2016/17 season and moved to the same position for Bundesliga competitor s.Oliver Würzburg , where he worked under former national coach Dirk Bauermann and Denis Wucherer . In the summer of 2019, Arigbabus' expiring contract in Würzburg was not extended. He then worked as a co-trainer and youth trainer at the Vasas Akadémia in Hungary , where he met a compatriot with Harald Stein .
Awards and Achievements
- 1996 German cup winner with SSV Ulm
- 1997 German champion and cup winner with ALBA Berlin
- 1998 German champion with ALBA Berlin
- 2001 4th place at the EM with Germany
- 2002 bronze medal at the World Cup with Germany
- 2003 BBL All Star
- 2004 Winner of the FIBA Europe Cup with the MBC
- 2005 Vice European Champion with Germany
- 2006 German cup winner with Alba Berlin
- 2007 5th place at the European Championships in Spain with Germany
- 2011 promotion to the Pro B as a trainer of BSW Sixers from Sandersdorf-Brehna
- U18 European B champion 2014 as assistant coach
Web links
- Stephen Arigbabu's website
- easyCredit BBL - Stephen Arigbabu - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Mahr: Balance: Player. In: mahr.sb-vision.de. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Basketball World Cup: Germany takes bronze. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Arigbabu stops. In: kicker online. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
- ↑ End of career after 19 years as a professional: Arigbabu quits ; kicker.de, July 7, 2010.
- ↑ Ü35: German Champion 2015 becomes North German Champion 2016 | DBV Charlottenburg eV In: DBV Charlottenburg eV February 23, 2016, accessed on June 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Brit Rocktäschel: BSW Sixers. (No longer available online.) In: www.bsw-sixers.de. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on February 27, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ The men’s coaching board stands! Article on the website of the German Basketball Federation; Retrieved May 3, 2014.
- ↑ Stephen Arigbabu for three months at RASTA Vechta ; Communication from RASTA Vechta dated February 7, 2014.
- ↑ Arigbabu new Vechta coach ; Sport1.de, May 1, 2014.
- ↑ RASTA Vechta: single view. In: www.rasta-vechta.de. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Basketball Braunschweig: Assistant coach position: Stephen Arigbabu comes, Lars Masell goes. In: www.basketball-loewen.de. Retrieved June 7, 2016 .
- ^ National coach A2 men: Arne Woltmann «German Basketball Association. In: www.basketball-bund.de. Retrieved September 6, 2016 .
- ↑ http://www.soliver-wuerzburg.de/news/newsdetails/jahr/2017/mai/meldung/stephen-arigbabu-wird-assistent-von-dirk-bauermann/?tx_ttnews%5Bday%5D=29&cHash=b1204b54375b29596e2da4c3270dcf60
- ↑ https://www.mainpost.de/sport/wuerzburg/Stephen-Arigbabu-verlaesst-die-Baskets;art786,10268241
- ↑ http://vasasbasketball.hu/stephen-arigbabu-a-vasas-akademia-uj-edzoje/
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Arigbabu, Stephen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arigbabu, Stephen Olumide (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |