Yassin Idbihi

Yassin Markus Idbihi ( born July 24, 1983 in Cologne, North Rhine -Westphalia ) is a German professional basketball player.

Career

The son of a Moroccan father and a German mother was born in Cologne and grew up in Northern Morocco, Tanger. As a 15 -year-old Idbihi returned to Germany, where he began his athletic career at the 2001 SOBA Dragons from Rhöndorf, with whom he played for two years in the second basketball league. After graduation in 2003 he went to study in the United States at the University at Buffalo, where he played for the college team Bulls in the Mid- American Conference NCAA. In his final NCAA season, he scored an average of 15.3 points individually and 9.3 rebounds per game and just missed a " double-double ".

For the season 2007/ 08 of 2.08 m wide and 107 -pound playing in the position of power forwards Idbihi returned to Germany and joined the Bundesliga side Cologne 99ers in his native city. In March 2008 he was appointed by Dirk Bauer man for the first time in the national team of men. However, the Cologne missed qualifying for the play-offs for the German championship and at the beginning of the following season, he moved in November 2008 from the financially struggling German club to France, where in the French second division LNB Pro B for the traditional club CSP he Élite played from Limoges. The association, however, missed the final match of the play-offs for promotion to return to the top flight. In September 2009 it was announced that Idbihi in the season 2009/10 returns to the BBL and will play there for the New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig from. The Phantoms were able to qualify with Idbihi the first time in seven years for the play- offs and defeat there in the first round, the defending champion and main round First EWE Baskets Oldenburg.

At the following season 2010/11 he moved to ALBA Berlin, where at the end of the season and his former teammate Brunswick Heiko Schaffartzik was come. ALBA reached the Eurocup 2010/11 of the previous year as Vice sovereign the second round of the 16 best teams, but in the one resigned after just one win in six games. In the national championship, it was enough to end up being the main circuit third party for collection in the play-off final series, but went narrowly lost in five games against defending champion Brose Baskets. After dropped out in the second round of the Eurocup 2011/12, they lost third in the main round of the National Basketball League 2011/12 surprising in the first play-off round against the upstart s.Oliver Baskets. For the following season Idbihi moved into the " Starting Five " of ALBA, which could also qualify as an invitee team in relation to the high-order ULEB Eurocup Euro League 2012/13 for the second round of the 16 best European club teams. As the winner of the cup competition Beko BBL Cup 2013 on home soil would retire but as fifth in the main round in the first play-off round of the National Basketball League in 2012/13 against Bayern Munich.

After the end of the expired contract with ALBA Idbihi changed in July 2013 now even to Bayern Munich, who like the Berlin last year included an invitation to participate in the ULEB Euro League 2013/14.

Idbihi is married to a Canadian and is the father of three sons.

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