Albert Miralles
Alberto Miralles mountains ( born May 14, 1982 in Barcelona, Catalonia ) is a Spanish professional basketball player. Miralles played professionally in addition to his homeland in Italy and in Germany, where he Beko BBL Cup 2013 won with ALBA Berlin.
Career
Miralles played in his youth successfully for the youth teams of Joventut Badalona, with whom he 2001, the national U-20 Youth Championship won, and for the Spanish junior national team, with whom he behind Greece won the silver medal at the U20 European Championship in 2002. Meanwhile, Miralles has already been used in the men's team of Joventut in the Spanish top league ACB league in individual games. During the 2000/ 01 season Miralles was loaned to second division from Drac Inca in Mallorca in the LEB. Then he left his training club Joventut and played in the second league LEB for the club from Ourense, who lost the semifinal series of the play-offs for promotion against CB Lucentum Alicante after the second round main square.
After the silver medal at the U20 European Championship with the Spanish youth team Miralles won the 2002 an agreement with the Italian Cup Winners Virtus Bologna, which, however, also loaned him a few games to a second division. With the Crabs Rimini he reached the end of the 2002/03 season in the Legadue ninth place after the main round and just missed the play-offs for promotion. In the following season 2003/ 04 he played in the highest Italian league Lega Basket Serie A for the club from Roseto degli Abruzzi, with whom he reached the league in 13th place in the final table. The following Entry Draft of the highest endowed professional league NBA, he was selected in 2004 to 39 out of the Toronto Raptors, the then but did not adopt it in their squad. So Miralles played in the 2004/05 season again in Italy for Rosetos league rivals Vertical Vision Cantu from, with which he retired for the championship in the first play-off round in three games against Armani Jeans Milano. Then Miralles came in preparation for the 2005 European Championships in four appearances for the Spanish national team to use, but was not nominated for the tournament squad.
2005 Miralles returned to his homeland and signed a contract with Pamesa from Valencia. In the Spanish cup competition " Copa del Rey " you reached the final, which was lost against TAU Ceramica. In the championship is once again taking ninth place and thus failed to reach the play-offs for the championship scarce. In the following season 2006/ 07 of making the play -offs, where the eventual champions Real Madrid they lost in the first round succeeded. This was repeated in the next two seasons, as the one Erstrundenserie against eventual champion TAU Ceramica and 2008/ 09, this series lost to eventual champion FC Barcelona in the play- offs in 2007 /08. In the ULEB Cup in 2007 /08 they lost the quarter-final against his former club Joventut, which then also won the title, and a year later in the Eurocup 2008/ 09 quarter-final against eventual finalists BK Khimki of Russia. In the following two seasons Miralles then played for the Basque club Gipuzkoa San Sebastian, who had a year earlier managed to return to the highest Spanish league ACB league and with whom he came in each case not go over the league.
In the season 2011/12 Miralles changed again in the first Italian league and played for Angelico Biella of which also managed to avoid relegation on the twelfth. Then got Miralles then the German first division club ALBA Berlin in a contract for the National Basketball League 2012/13. Here Miralles came mostly as a substitute from the bench, but had to suspend individual games after Nachverpflichtungen for foreigners restrictions in the Bundesliga and came to a total of 27 championship appearances in the German league. While - in ALBA Club history only the second time - the round of 16 of the best teams in the existing since 2001 ULEB Euro League, the highest European club competition, reached and the Beko BBL Cup 2013 won on home soil, one difference in the Championship Play -offs from early in the first round. After Miralles had remained in the national cup games in which they won the title, without using and got a new contract more, he moved back to his home to his original club Joventut de Badalona.