Patrick Femerling

Patrick Oliver Femerling ( born March 4, 1975 in Hamburg ) is a former German professional basketball player. Femerling is state 2012 with 221 inserts capped player of the German national basketball team and won with the national team, a World Cup bronze medal and a European Championship silver medal. At club level, he won with his respective teams several times the national championships of Germany, Spain and Greece, and even in 2003 the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League.

Career

Femerling began his basketball career at the General Rather gymnastics club in Dusseldorf, where he eventually played with the senior team in the Regionalliga. In 1995 he moved to the USA at the University of Washington and played during his study period for the high school team, Huskies, for which his countrymen Detlef Schrempf and Christian Welp had already been active before, in the NCAA Division I.

In 1998, he then returned to Germany and became a professional at ALBA Berlin, with whom he was able to win two championships and one cup win in two seasons. In 2000 Femerling changed for the first time abroad in Europe for Greek club Olympiakos Piraeus. In the years following the Spanish club FC Barcelona and Panathinaikos were then each biannually turn in Greece stations in Femerlings career. During these years he won, among other things, two Spanish and two Greek national championships as well as the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2003. During the season of 2006/ 07 Femerling was again active in the Spanish ACB League at Caja San Fernando Sevilla before joining for the following season ALBA Berlin returned, with which he won another German championship in 2008 and 2009 another national cup title. In the season 2009/10 he was in the Turkish League in Antalya active before he returned again for one season as team captain to ALBA. However, this was then his last for ALBA, because in the following season 2011/12 he got a new contract and eventually ended his career.

The 215 -centimeter center completed 221 caps for the German national team and is now (as of 2012) most-capped player. This he was first on 25 August 2007, when he completed his 182 international match and thus Hansi Gnad surpassed. On 16 July the following year he competed in the Olympic qualification first German his 200th international match. As captain of the national team, he won at the 2002 World Cup along with Dirk Nowitzki and his teammates and the bronze medal in the European Championship finals in 2005 as Vice-European Champion silver medal. Another highlight of his national team career was the Olympic Games in 2008, which, however, ended early after just one win and three defeats in the group stage. For the European Championship finals in Poland in 2009, he returned once more back into the national team, but reached an otherwise tapered squad without Dirk Nowitzki with reaching the second round only a moderate success. After this tournament, then his national team career was finally over.

After the End of career

After Femerling had ended his active career in the summer of 2011, he accepted an offer from the sports channel Sport 1. He has since been heard as co-commentator and expert on basketball broadcasts and see. In addition Femerling began coach tickets for the performance range in basketball to purchase. For the 2013/2014 season he became the new head coach of the JBBL team Alba Berlin and so successfully entered into the coach area.

Others

Femerling wore in his respective teams usually always the jersey with the number 13 He also wore his socks on the field always pulled up to the knees, which was particularly striking in view of his enormous body length and earned him the nickname " sock " earned.

Achievements

  • German champion: 1999, 2000, 2008
  • Spanish Champion: 2003, 2004
  • Greek champion: 2005, 2006
  • German Cup: 1999, 2009
  • Greek Cup winner: 2002, 2005, 2006
  • Spanish Cup winner: 2003
  • ULEB Euro League: 2003
  • Bronze medal World Cup: 2002
  • Silver Medal European Championship: 2005

Awards

  • Participation in European championships: 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009
  • Participation in world championships: 2002, 2006
  • Participation in the Olympic Games: 2008
Center (Basketball) National Collegiate Athletic Association FIBA Basketball World Cup 2002 FIBA World Championship Euroleague Basketball Chris Welp 2002–03 Euroleague Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics FIBA EuroBasket 2009 List of German basketball champions Greek Basket League
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