Yorman Polas Bartolo

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Basketball player
Yorman Polas
Player information
Full name Yorman Polas Bartolo
Nickname El ciclón
birthday August 8, 1985
place of birth Camaguey , Cuba
position Small Forward
Shooting Guard
Club information
society MHP giant Ludwigsburg
league Basketball Bundesliga
Jersey number 13
Clubs as active
0000–2012 Tigres de Camagüey 2012–2013 Munich Basket 2013–2014 Crailsheim Merlins 2014–2016 Gießen 46ers 2016–2020 Telekom Baskets Bonn 2020 Skyliners Frankfurt Since 2020 MHP Riesen LudwigsburgCubaCuba
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National team
2007–2012 Cuba

Yorman Polas Bartolo (born August 8, 1985 in Camagüey ) is a Cuban - German basketball player . He is under contract with the German first division club MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg . The former Cuban national player has had German citizenship since 2015. Polas' position is that of the small winger . It is 1.92 meters tall and is nicknamed "el ciclón" ( German : the cyclone).

Player career

Polas played with the Tigres de Camagüey in his native Cuba until 2012. In 2010 and 2012 he was recognized by the Internet portal Latinbasket.com as one of the five best players in the Cuban League Superior de Baloncesto. He also played international matches for the Cuban national team and took part with her in the 2009 championship of the Caribbean and the 2011 American championship , in which the team missed qualification for the 2012 Olympic Games in London after four defeats in the preliminary round .

For the 2012/13 season, Polas moved to his current wife's homeland and played in Germany for Munich Basket in the first South-East regional league . He was named Player of the Year by the Eurobasket.com website.

This was followed by the change from the fourth to the second German division: he played with the Crailsheim Merlins in the 2. Bundesliga ProA in the 2013/14 season and received another award from Eurobasket.com after the season, this time as the best defender the ProA 2013/14 .

In 2014 he was signed by the Gießen 46ers . With the club he won the championship of the second division in the ProA 2014/15 and rose to the Bundesliga. In September 2015 he received German citizenship. Polas Bartolo made his Bundesliga debut for Giessen on October 4, 2015 against Ludwigsburg. He played with Gießen in a total of 33 games during his first Bundesliga season and recorded an average of 9.9 points and 3.9 rebounds.

In May 2016, Giessen's Bundesliga competitor, Telekom Baskets Bonn , announced Polas Bartolo's commitment. In the 2017/18 season, he was named “Best Defender” in the Bundesliga in a choice of head coaches and team captains. In 2018/19 he received this award again. At the end of May 2020, the Skyliners Frankfurt announced its commitment for the Bundesliga season's final tournament , which was scheduled to end the season that was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

At the beginning of August 2020, Bundesliga club MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg signed him.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. LSB_2009-2010 Basketball League CUBA - latinbasket.com. (No longer available online.) Eurobasket.com, archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; Retrieved March 19, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.latinbasket.com
  2. LSB_2011-2012 Basketball League CUBA - latinbasket.com. (No longer available online.) Eurobasket.com, archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; Retrieved March 19, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.latinbasket.com
  3. German Basketball, Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings - eurobasket.com. eurobasket.com, accessed March 19, 2016 .
  4. Cuban national player occupies the position of winger. Südwest Presse , July 30, 2013, accessed March 19, 2016 .
  5. PROA_2013-2014 Basketball League GERMANY - eurobasket.com. eurobasket.com, accessed March 19, 2016 .
  6. Yorman Polas Bartolo first signing of the GIESSEN 46ers. Giessen 46ers , May 8, 2014, accessed on March 19, 2016 (media info).
  7. Yorman Polas Bartolo receives German citizenship - GIESSEN 46ers. GIESSEN 46ers, accessed on March 19, 2016 (media info).
  8. Baskets press the reset button. In: www.telekom-baskets-bonn.de. Retrieved May 17, 2016 .
  9. easyCredit Awards - Best Attacker and Best Defender. Retrieved April 26, 2018 .
  10. https://www.easycredit-bbl.de/de/n/news/2019/mai/yorman-polas-bartolo--bester-verteidiger-/
  11. FRAPORT SKYLINERS strengthen themselves with Yorman Polas Bartolo / contract with Daniel Schmidt expired. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .
  12. "El Ciclón" swirls in Ludwigsburg | MHP RIESEN Ludwigsburg. Retrieved August 4, 2020 .