Vitalis Chikoko
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| birthday | February 11, 1991 | |
| place of birth | Harare , Zimbabwe | |
| size | 208 cm | |
| position | center | |
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2009–2011 Dzivarasekwa Raiders 2010–2011 Mbare Heat 2011–2012 BG Göttingen 2012–2015 TBB Trier 2015 Pallacanestro Reggiana 2015 Tezenis Verona 2016 Bayern Munich 2016–2019 Pau-Orthez 2019– Levallois Metropolitans    
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Vitalis Chikoko (born February 11, 1991 in Harare ) is a Zimbabwean basketball player .
career
Chikoko, the son of a nurse and a government official, grew up in Harare . His father played soccer and his sister was an athlete, while Chikoko, who was nicknamed "Alefu" (German: The Great) in his homeland, initially played soccer, cricket and tennis before turning to basketball.
As a schoolboy, he made the leap into the squad of the local first division team Dzivarasekwa Raiders. He played for two years for the Raiders, in the 2010/11 season he ran for Mbare Heat and won the Zimbabwean championship with the team.
Chikoko made the leap to Germany in 2011: He played for the BG Göttingen in the basketball league and with a “double license” for the ASC 1846 Göttingen in the regional league. With the BG he was relegated from the Bundesliga, Chikoko then moved to the TBB Trier . With the Moselans he continued his development in the Bundesliga, in the 2013 summer break he took part in the NBA summer league in the Houston Rockets shirt . He left Trier in spring 2015 to end the 2014/15 season with the Italian first division club Pallacanestro Reggiana .
In the first half of the 2015/16 season he was under contract with the Italian second division club Verona, in spring 2016 Chikoko was signed by Bayern Munich and given a contract until the end of the season.
For the 2016/17 season, Chikoko signed with the French first division club Pau-Orthez . Between April and October 2017 he was "out of action" due to a foot injury. In the summer break of 2019, he moved to Levallois Metropolitans within the French league , after shining for Pau-Orthez during the 2018/19 season with averages of 15.3 points and 7.8 rebounds.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Vitalis Chikoko, le pionnier zimbabwéen. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 10, 2017 ; Retrieved December 9, 2017 (French). 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.
- ↑ Munyaradzi Madzokere: Zimbabwe: Vitalis Chikoko Chase's American Dream . In: Zimbabwe Standard (Harare) . May 29, 2016 ( allafrica.com [accessed December 9, 2017]).
- ↑ Göttinger Tageblatt, Eichsfelder Tageblatt, Göttingen, Eichsfeld, Lower Saxony, Germany: On the trail of "Hakeem the Dream". Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ TBB Trier: Vitalis Chikoko moves to the Moselle . In: Trier.com . June 26, 2012 ( trier.com [accessed December 9, 2017]).
- ↑ Summer League 2013 | NBA.com. Accessed December 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Chikoko leaves the TBB Trier - lawyer confirms: 24-year-old moves to Italy to Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia. Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Chikoko, Toppert & Co: The new part-time Bavaria. Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Elan Béarnais / Pro A: Vitalis Chikoko en renfort . In: SudOuest.fr . ( sudouest.fr [accessed December 9, 2017]).
- ↑ https://www.francebleu.fr/sports/basket-handball-volley/elan-bearnais-le-pivot-vitalis-chikoko-file-a-levallois-1559756467
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| SURNAME | Chikoko, Vitalis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Zimbabwean basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Harare |