Aymeric Jeanneau

Aymeric Jeanneau ( born October 10, 1978 in La Roche- sur- Yon, Vendée ) is a French former professional basketball player. Jeanneau played his entire career as a professional in the French Ligue Nationale de Basket, where he won in 2009 two French championships and three cup competitions " Coupe de France " with Strasbourg IG in 2005, ASVEL. For the French national basketball team Jeanneau had 56 missions and was a participant, in which the French team each finished fifth in the final of the World Basketball Championship in 2006 and the Eurobasket 2009. After he had with Strasbourg IG in 2013 again reached the finals and won a runner, he ended his active career.

Career

Jeanneau, who had initially learned the game of basketball in Saint- Fulgent, moved in 1993 to the east in the Pays de la Loire from junior center by Cholet, whose men's team was in 1987 ascended to the highest French league. 1996 Jeanneau won with the French Under-18 youth team at the Junior European Championships before a home crowd, the Silver Medal after a final defeat by Croatia, which remained the only team unbeaten and the French had already beaten in the opening game. France won all the remaining games, including against the German youth team with Dirk Nowitzki, who finished in eighth place at the end.

Then Jeanneau was recorded in 1996 in the cadre of men's team of Cholet Basket, with the third place in the top flight Pro A reached its hitherto best final ranking in the 1997/98 season. In European club competition Korać Cup 1997/98, where you had the German representatives HERZOGtel Trier twice defeated in the round of 32 teams, we also reached the semi-finals, in which a high 49:81 away defeat in the return leg against KK Red Star Belgrade could not make up. The title in French Cup competition which the club had won in 1998 as the first national title, one could defend the following year. Likewise, you again reached the third place after the regular season, but retired in the first play-off round to the championship title against regional rival Le Mans Sarthe Basket from. After a fourth place in the final table of the 1999/2000 season was again one third after a ninth place in 2001 in the 2001/ 02 season. The following season, Jeanneau has been used in qualifying for the finals of the European Championship in 2003 for the first time in the French Men's National Team. In the final tournament of the European Championship 2003, however, Jeanneau was no longer on the national team, as they just missed a medal in fourth place in Sweden.

For 2003/ 04 left Jeanneau Cholet Basket and moved to Saint Thomas Basket Le Havre on the northern Atlantic coast of France. After the re-emergence in the highest national league this club had the first time the play-offs reached for the championship in the previous season in eighth place. In the Final Table 2003/ 04 could be improved to sixth place, but resigned again in the first play-off round. Jeanneau then moved together with his teammate Jeff Greer Alsace Illkirch -Graffenstaden Basket from Strasbourg. The crew of this association had held the class only by increasing the league after the 2002/ 03 season. After the team was eliminated in the first play-off round against defending champion EB Pau Orthez - 2004, the balance of power had turned in the season 2004/ 05. In the first play-off round could turn in third place to sixth from Pau and completely dethrone after winning the championship final on SLUC Nancy. Jeff's brother Ricardo Greer has been named the "Most Valuable Player " (MVP) of the final game. In the following season the team played in the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2005/ 06, however, where you could win only three of the 14 qualifying matches in the preliminary round and left early. In the French championship, they lost this time in the semi-final against SLUC Nancy, who were runners-up again. Jeanneau then participated with the French national team at the 2006 World Cup in Japan. After a quarter-final defeat to eventual runners-up Greece could be in the placement round, was not used in the Jeanneau, defeat the German national team with just two points and occupy the fifth place at the end.

After the season 2005 /06 the Greer brothers and Jeanneau left the Alsatian club and the latter moved to French giants ASVEL Villeurbanne. In the French Cup in 2006 /07 Jeanneau defeated with ASVEL his former club from Strasbourg in the first play-off round, but different, then again from Jeanneau's point of view, in the semi-final against runner- SLUC Nancy from. In the 2007 /08 season they won the Cup competition and was eliminated in the semifinals again against reinforced with the Greer brothers club from Nancy from, who won his first championship title in the final series. In the following season 2008/ 09 they were no longer to stop than the main circuit first in the play- offs than you in the semifinals was finally able to defeat defending champion SLUC Nancy and the finale, the 17th championship and first could get for the club since 2002. Then Jeanneau was appointed by his club coach Vincent Collet and his teammates Ali Traoré for the final squad of the national team of the 2009 European Championships. However Jeanneau received at the final tournament in Poland but as a reserve player only little playing time with just eight minutes operating time per game than entered France without losing the quarter-finals. Here you suffered, however, from the weak to the tournament started World Champion Spain 's only tournament defeat, which is quite high with 20 points difference, however, failed. After two wins in the Placement Round one had the best record of all teams taken part, but had to make do with fifth place. In the 2009/10 season ASVEL failed in the ULEB Euro Cup 2009 / 3:10 first round victories in direct comparison with three other teams just wide of the way into the second round of the 16 best teams. In the national championship they won the League Cup " Semaine de ace ", but missed as Table ninth place play-off and the title defense.

For the season 2010/11 Jeanneau returned to Strasbourg IG back to Alsace, which had held as Third last preseason just under the class and also bringing back Ricardo Greer from the champion team in 2005 in the squad. In a balanced participants Strasbourg IG got like four other teams only twelve victories in 30 games and was able to place order in eleventh place in the final table. Subsequently coach Collet club coach in Strasbourg, but could improve in the 2011/12 season only slightly to tenth place itself. For the 2012/13 season they picked from the German Basketball Bundesliga next to Ricardo's brother Jeff, another member of the champion team in 2005, and Louis Campbell on the other side of the Rhine. After a second place in the regular season they stayed in the play- offs unbeaten first and moved into the finals series for the championship, which was the first time played in " Best-of -Five" mode rather than in a single final game. After a convincing opening victory in the final series with 34 points difference can be lost, however, against the also previously undefeated in the play- offs surprise finalist JSF Nanterre, who had first reached the play-offs in eighth only because of the better direct comparison after last year's rise, the following three games and had to settle for the runner. Jeanneau announced end of his career at the end of the season before the finals. After his career end Jeanneau want to get involved with the club in Strasbourg in the club's organization.

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