Steven Hansell

Steven Hansell
Player information
Full name	Steven Anthony Hansell
birthday	February 17, 1975 (45 years and 196 days)
place of birth	Birmingham (ENG), United Kingdom
size	188 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Point Guard
college	Illinois State
Clubs as active
1993–1994 Birmingham Bullets 1994–1995 Lincoln Lynx (NJCAA) 1995–1998 Illinois State Redbirds ( NCAA ) 1998 Children Bologna 1998 Müller Verona 1998–1999 MABO Pistoia 1999–2001 AEK Athens 2001–2002 Caja San Fernando Sevilla 2002 GS Olympia Larisa 2003 Birmingham Bullets 2003–2004 Roseto Basket 2004–2005 Viola Reggio Calabria 2005 Brighton Bears 2006 Kolossos Rhodes 2007 PAOK Thessaloniki 2007–2008 APOEL Nicosia 2009–2010 Birmingham Aces 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000
National team 1
1997-2003 2006-2007	England UK	39 11
1 As of August 11, 2012

Steven Anthony Hansell (born February 17, 1975 in Birmingham , West Midlands ) is a retired British basketball player . Immediately after studying in the United States , Hansell was hired by the Italian club Kinder Bologna in 1998 , which won the most important European club competition FIBA Euroleague at the end of the season . In addition to Italy, the English and British international played as a reliable substitute in Greece and Spain and ended his active career in his home country in 2010.

Career

In 1994, Hansell went to study in the USA, where after a year he moved from Junior College in Lincoln (Illinois) to Illinois State University in Normal (Illinois) . For their college team Redbirds, he played in the Missouri Valley Conference of the NCAA . With his team he won the championship of this conference twice in 1997 and 1998, qualifying for the national final of the NCAA , in which they were eliminated early in the first and second round. These two championships were the last title wins of this university team in basketball.

Immediately after the end of his studies, Hansell was hired by the Italian top team Kinder Bologna in March 1998, which, in addition to another Italian championship, won their first title in the FIBA ​​Euroleague at the end of the season. For this competition, which had replaced the European Champions Cup, Bologna was also qualified as third in the 1997 Italian championship. While young player Hansell was not used in the European Cup, he completed 14 games for the champions in the Lega Basket Serie A until the end of the season. After the end of the season he moved to the Korać Cup winner Müller Scaligera Basket in Verona , which he left in early November 1998 and moved to the league competitor from Pistoia . However, MABO Pistoia was bottom of the table after only six wins in 26 games at the end of the season and had to be relegated from the top division.

For the 1999/2000 season Hansell then signed a contract with "Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos" (AEK) from Athens in the Greek league A1 Ethniki . AEK lost the 1998 final against Bologna in the Euroleague. Under the new coach Dušan Ivković they won the Saporta Cup and the national cup competition in 2000. In the following season, Hansell was reinforced by his compatriot Andrew Betts, who was in the center position at AEK. In the newly created ULEB Euroleague , which was to replace the old FIBA ​​Euroleague as the most important European club competition, the semi-finals were reached in the premiere season , which was lost to the Spanish club TAU Cerámica . Hansell acted as a substitute for AEK and was used for more or fewer minutes as required. His ex-club Kinder Bologna won the final and the first title of the new Euroleague. AEK, on ​​the other hand, was able to defend its cup title at national level. While Betts stayed with AEK and won a Greek championship for AEK for the first time in 32 years, Hansell left the club.

For the 2001/02 season Hansell signed a contract with Caja San Fernando from Seville in the Spanish ACB league . With this club he reached twelfth place in the final table and thus missed the play-offs for the Spanish championship. In the following season he was from November 2002 at Olympia Larisa again under contract in the Greek league, but completed only nine games for the first division promoted, who was relegated at the end of the season as bottom again.

In the following season 2003/04 Hansell first played in the British Basketball League for the Bullets from his hometown Birmingham, in whose youth teams he had already played and had already had individual appearances in the senior team before starting his studies in the USA. In late November 2003 he moved again to the Italian Serie A to Roseto degli Abruzzi . In the previous year, still represented in the play-offs, the club clearly missed this position after a 13th place in the table at the end of the season. For the following season 2005/06 Hansell moved to league competitor Viola from Reggio Calabria , who ended the season on the penultimate place in the table and held the class only thanks to the withdrawal of another team's license. Hansell had another use in the British Basketball League for the Brighton Bears this season.

In the 2005/06 season, Hansell could not initially recommend himself for a contract and only came under in the middle of the season with the promoted Kolossos from Rhodes , for which he completed 13 games in the first Greek league. Hansell could no longer help the team to avoid relegation, instead, after only six wins in 26 games, they were relegated from bottom of the table. After the Olympic Games were awarded in the British capital London in 2012 , a British national team was newly formed in 2006. After Hansell had previously tried in vain to qualify for title fights with the English national team, he now successfully supported the newly formed selection in getting into the circle of the best European teams in Division A.

In the 2006/07 season, Hansell was without a professional contract before PAOK from Thessaloniki took him to December 2007 for six games at the beginning of the 2007/08 season . Hansell then moved to Cyprus to APOEL from Nicosia for the rest of the season . He was then active again in the 2009/10 season for the Aces from his hometown of Birmingham, before he finally ended his active career.

Web links

• Players - Steven Anthony Hansell (ENG). archive.fiba.com - Overview of participation in FIBA competitions (English)
• Great Britain Basketball - The Players: Steve Hansell - player profile on the website of the British Association
• Legabasket: Steven Hansell - Profile on the Serie A statistics pages (Italian)
• Steven Hansell Basketball Player Profile, stats, biography, career - player profile on the pages of eurobasket.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The information about his height fluctuates greatly. In addition to the size information on the homepage of the British Association and the FIBA ​​archive, which have him at 1.88 m, it goes up to 1.96 m, with which he is recorded on his ULEB player professional.
2. ↑ According to the FIBA Europa team of players (accessed on August 11, 2012), there was no use by Hansell . Because of the late obligation, it is also questionable whether an authorization would have been possible.
3. ↑ HANSELL, STEVEN: 2000-2001 STATISTICS. ULEB , accessed on August 11, 2012 (English, Euroleague 2000/01 season statistics). 
4. ↑ ACB.COM: Steve Hansell. Liga ACB , accessed August 11, 2012 (Spanish, player profile). 
5. ↑ According to the Eurobasket.com profile (English, accessed on August 11, 2012), he played in the second division for the Olympics this season. However, only Olympia's local rival AE Larisa played there , with whom Olympia later merged.