Todor Gečevski

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Basketball player
Todor Gečevski
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Player information
birthday August 28, 1977
place of birth Kavadarci, SFR Yugoslavia
size 210 cm
position Power Forward /
Center
Club information
society KK MZT Skopje
league Makedonska prva liga
Clubs as active
1995–1999 KK Tikveš Kavadarci 1999–2000 Nikol Fert Gostivar 2001 KK MZT Skopje 2001–2002 Nikol Fert Gostivar 2002–2003 Air Avellino 2003 Brandt Hagen 2004 KK Rabotnički Skopje 2004–2009 KK Zadar 2009–2011 PAOK Thessaloniki Since 2011 KK MZT Skopje North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia
North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia
000 0North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia
North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia
ItalyItaly
000 0 GermanyGermany
000 0North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia
CroatiaCroatia
GreeceGreece
0North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia
National team
Since 1997 Macedonia

Todor Gečevski ( Macedonian Тодор Гечевски ; born August 28, 1977 in Kavadarci , SR Macedonia ) is a Macedonian basketball player . Gečevski first played in his home country until 2002 and returned there briefly in 2004 after stints in Italy and Germany . After spending five years in Croatia at KK Zadar, he moved to Greece in 2009 and played for PAOK in Thessaloniki . Since 2011 he has been playing in his home country for KK MZT from the capital Skopje .

Club career

Gečevski moved in 1999 from his home club in his hometown to the club in Gostivar , with which he won the national Macedonian championship in 2000. In December 2000 he left the club and moved to KK MZT in the Macedonian capital Skopje , with whom he won the 2001 national cup. Then returned to Gostivar for another season. In 2002 he moved abroad for the first time and played in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A for Air Avellino. For the following season he moved to the German basketball league with Brandt Hagen, who, however, had to file for bankruptcy in December 2003 and stop playing. He then returned to Macedonia and this time played for KK Rabotnički in Skopje, with whom he won the Macedonian double in 2004.

For the 2004/05 season he moved to the basketball club from Zadar in Croatia, where he played until 2009. In 2005 he was able to win a national double again, this time in Croatia with KK Zadar. After two more Croatian cup wins in 2006 & 2007, they won another Croatian championship in 2008. In the Adriatic League the furthest advance was a semi-finals in 2008. In the Eurocup 2008/09 he reached the Elite Eight final tournament with Zadar in Turin , where they were eliminated in the quarterfinals against Iurbentia Bilbao . Gečevski was appointed to the All-Eurocup-First-Team as the best player in his position in this competition . He then moved to the Macedonian neighboring country of Greece to PAOK Thessaloniki. With PAOK he was able to take third place in the Greek championship in 2011.

National team

During Petar Naumoski's seasons , Gečevski took part with the Macedonian national team in the 1999 European Championship finals . In this final round you were eliminated with three defeats in the preliminary round. It wasn't until ten years later that the qualification for a final was again achieved. At the EM 2009 in Poland they reached the intermediate round and were eliminated despite a victory against the German national basketball team . Two years later they were qualified again and, led by the naturalized Bo McCalebb , despite an opening defeat in extra time against the Montenegrin national basketball team , they pushed through to the final round after six consecutive wins, where they defeated hosts Lithuania in the quarter-finals . However, two defeats followed, so that a medal was just missed. The final round will take place without captain Gečevski, who was injured and played his last game in the second round.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Legabasket: Todor Gecevski. Legabasket.it, accessed September 17, 2011 (Italian, player statistics).
  2. ↑ 2008-09 All-Eurocup first, second teams announced. EurocupBasketball.com, March 27, 2009, accessed September 17, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Paul Nilsen: FYR of Macedonia daring to dream. FIBA Europe : eurobasket2011.com, September 15, 2011, accessed on September 17, 2011 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Gečevski, Todor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gechevski, Todor; Gecevski, Todor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Macedonian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Kavadarci , SR Macedonia, Yugoslavia