Antoine Rigaudeau
Antoine Roger Rigaudeau ( born December 17, 1971 in Cholet ) is a French former professional basketball player who was active from 1987 to 2005.
By 1995 Rigaudeau played for his hometown club Cholet Basket, then he was for two years at EB Pau Orthez - under contract. A total of five times, he was elected most valuable player in the French league, the first time a 19-year, he also won the French championship in 1996. His most successful period was Rigaudeau with Virtus Bologna where he was and twice Italian champion (1998, 2001) and three times Cup winner (1999, 2001, 2002 ) each have a victory in the respective time highest European Cup ( 1998 national champion trophy 2001 in Euro League) won. In 2003, Rigaudeau in the NBA with the Dallas Mavericks, but where he came only to a few brief appearances. After he had briefly been at the Golden State Warriors under contract, he played two years for Valencia BC.
Rigaudeau was from 1990 to 2001 for the French national team and actively participated with her at four European Championships (1991, 1993, 1995, 1999). However, his greatest success was winning the silver medal at the Olympic Games 2000. At the European Championships in 1999 and the Games in 2000 he was at that time the best scorer of the team. The following year Rigaudeau stepped out of the national team from, but returned to the 2005 European Championships, where she won as a team captain with France the bronze medal. After he finished his career after 127 games in which he scored 1506 points, final.
Antoine Roger Rigaudeau belonged in early 2008 to a circle of 105 basketball players who were nominated by the Euro League Basketball and / or basketball interested, actively fifty major personalities of the sport of basketball in Europe in the period 1958 to 2008, determine and subsequently in May 2008 Madrid ( Spain) honor can. All nominated players have played a particularly prominent role in the European Cup competitions of FIBA Europe and the Euro League basketball and belonged respectively to the most prominent ' stars' of their national league teams.