Vilmantas Matkevičius

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Vilmantas Matkevičius (born May 5, 1960 ) is a Lithuanian basketball coach and former player.

career

Matkevičius moved from his Lithuanian homeland to Cuxhaven in 1996 and completed an apprenticeship in the housing industry. For the 2000/01 season he took up the post of head coach at SV Rot-Weiss Cuxhaven , which was then playing in the second regional league. Initially, the two-meter-tall center acted as a player-coach before he limited himself to his duties as a coach.

In 2003 he led Cuxhaven to promotion to the first regional league and in 2004 to the second basketball division . The team, which has now been renamed Cuxhaven BasCats , became a permanent fixture in the second highest German division under the leadership of the Lithuanian. In the 2006/07 season Matkevičius' troop landed on the third place in the standings of the northern season and thus qualified for the new 2nd Bundesliga ProA . From 2007 (and until 2011) his son Benas was his assistant coach. In 2008, under his leadership, Cuxhaven came second in the ProA, thus gaining the right to promotion, but did not apply for a license for the basketball league because the financial prerequisites and a suitable home ground for participation in the top German division were lacking. 2010 Matkevičius led the team again to the runner-up, but the club again renounced promotion. In May 2010, Cuxhaven moved into the final of the DBB Cup, which took place this season without the participation of first division clubs, and lost there 72:76 against Bayreuth.

Shortly before the start of the 2011/12 season, Matkevičius had to undergo hip surgery. As a result, he was unable to work until mid-February 2012 and was represented by his assistant Krists Plendišķis , who ultimately succeeded the Lithuanian when Matkevičius and the BasCats ended their collaboration at the end of February 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duo Matkevicius has extended two years. Cuxhavener Nachrichten, April 17, 2017, accessed April 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ BasCats head coach Vilmantas Matkevicius will stay for another three years! schoenen-dunk.de, accessed on April 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Coach Profile . In: www.eurobasket.com . ( eurobasket.com [accessed April 17, 2017]).
  4. ↑ The end of an incredible 2003/04 season. Cuxhavener Nachrichten, April 16, 2017, accessed April 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ When the father and son impress the Bundesliga. Cuxhavener Nachrichten, April 17, 2017, accessed April 17, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Coach Profile . In: www.eurobasket.com . ( eurobasket.com [accessed April 17, 2017]).
  7. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Basketball on the coast: Too poor for the first division - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Sport. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: Cuxhaven rejects promotion to the Bundesliga . In: NWZonline . ( nwzonline.de [accessed April 17, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Bayreuth wins the DBB Cup! «German Basketball Association. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .
  10. ↑ BasCats: Farewell to Vilmantas Matkevicius. April 17, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Matkevičius, Vilmantas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matkevicius, Vilmantas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian basketball coach and player
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1960