Tomas Van Den Spiegel

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Basketball player
Tomas Van Den Spiegel
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Player information
birthday July 10, 1978
place of birth Ghent, Belgium
size 214 cm
position center
Clubs as active
1995–1997 Okapi Aalstar 1997–2001 Telindus Oostende 2001–2004 Fortitudo Skipper Bologna → 2002 Telindus Oostende 2004–2006 Lottomatica Roma 2006–2007 PBK CSKA Moscow 2007–2008 Prokom Trefl 2008 ZSKA Moscow 2008 BK Asowmasch Mariupol 2008–2010 Real Madrid 2010– 2011 Armani Jeans Milan 2011–2012 Telenet Oostende BelgiumBelgium
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ItalyItaly
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National team
1997-2011 Belgium

Tomas Van Den Spiegel (born July 10, 1978 in Gent ) is a former Belgian basketball player . His position was that of the center .

Career

Tomas Van Den Spiegel began his career at Okapi from Aalst . In 1997 he moved to the traditional Belgian club Sunair Oostende with whom he celebrated two championships and as many cup wins. After the double under the name Telindus in 2001, he moved to Fortitudo from Bologna , Italy , which initially did not use him, so he initially returned to Ostend for the remainder of the 2001/02 season and celebrated his second championship there with the club. From the following season he was an integral part of the Skipper squad, which was the sponsor name of Fortitudo Bologna at the time. After Skipper had reached the final in the ULEB Euroleague 2003/04 and clearly lost to Maccabi Tel Aviv , Van Den Spiegel switched to Virtus Lottomatica Roma within Italy. With the Roman club, however, he could not celebrate any particular success and in February 2006 was given to CSKA Moscow, who won the final against defending champion Maccabi Tel Aviv with Van Den Spiegel in addition to the national double in the ULEB Euroleague 2005/06 . In the following season 2006/07 he won the national double again with the Muscovites , but lost as defending champion the final of the ULEB Euroleague 2006/07 against Panathinaikos Athens .

In 2007 Van Den Spiegel switched to the Polish champion Prokom Trefl, who at that time was still based in Sopot . After the club in the ULEB Euroleague 2007/08 failed again despite some strong performances by Van Den Spiegel, who was awarded as " MVP " of a preliminary round match day, this was again brought back to Moscow by CSKA and was able to join the national team Championship in the final of the most important European club competition again defeat Maccabi Tel Aviv. The following season he started with Azovmash in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol , who, in addition to Van Den Spiegel, had also signed the Euroleague top scorer Marc Salyers and took over financially. Van Den Spiegel was able to move to Real Madrid in the ACB league in December 2008 . With the traditional and successful club from the Spanish capital, however, he only achieved third places in the national championships and two final defeats in the national cup competition "Copa del Rey" in the following two seasons. In the highest European club competition, the ULEB Euroleague, they stayed behind their national rivals FC Barcelona , who also won the 2010 Euroleague after winning the direct play-off duel , after they were eliminated in the quarter-final play-offs .

After an injury-plagued 2009-10 season Van Den Spiegel received for 2010/11 a new contract in Madrid and was instead on the season beginning from Armani Jeans of Milan committed and returned again in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A return. However, the fixed-term contract was not extended in January 2011 after the early departure from the ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 and in the absence of lucrative offers Van Den Spiegel returned to his home country. In the summer of 2011, he took part in a final round with the Belgian national team for the first time, after having successfully passed qualification the year before in almost 20 years. At the 2011 European Championship finals in Lithuania without their top player Axel Hervelle , the selection was eliminated prematurely after five defeats in the preliminary round. With Telenet Oostende, the new sponsor name of his former club from Ostend, Van Den Spiegel won the Belgian championship again in the following 2011/12 season before ending his career.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Week 4 MVP: Tomas Van den Spiegel, Prokom Trefl. ULEB Euroleague , November 16, 2007, accessed April 4, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Van den Spiegel. Liga ACB , 2010, accessed April 4, 2013 (Spanish, player profile).
  3. ↑ AJ Milano adds size with Van den Spiegel. ULEB Euroleague , November 16, 2010, accessed April 4, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Van den Spiegel, Tomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent , Belgium