Michael Umeh

Michael Daniel Chukwuma Umeh ( born September 18, 1984 in Houston, Texas ) is an American- Nigerian basketball player who grew up in the United States. After his studies in his native country, he played professionally for two years in the 46ers from pouring into the German Basketball Bundesliga and since 2009 in Spain. After two years in the Spanish second division LEB Oro he plays in the 2011/12 season at the first top-flight club from Valladolid. In December 2011, he moved back into the first German league and strengthened the New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig from.

Career

Umeh went to study at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he played for the college team Runnin ' Rebels in the Mountain West Conference ( MWC), the NCAA from 2003. In his last season for the Rebels Umeh won with the team's 2007 championship tournament MWC and qualified for the first time after seven years of interruption for the NCAA national finals that could win the 1990 Rebels once already. When you return to the finals one in 2007 reached the second round round of "Sweet Sixteen" in which we eliminated the Ducks from the University of Oregon.

After study in late 2007 Umeh signed a contract with the 46ers pouring from the German BBL. The athletic season was less successful for the club and you could just barely avoid the 16th place relegation. Umehs contract was extended, but sporting success was not on. So you ranked at the end of the season 2008/ 09 has one rank worse and was thus relegated sporty. As a season before the TBB Trier could secure the Erstligaverbleib only by acquiring a vacant Erstligalizenz Giessen. However Umeh left the club in the direction of Spain, where he played in the second league LEB Oro at Erstligaabsteiger from Menorca. With a victory in the play-offs of the LEB could reach the resurgence for the club. However Umeh even changed for the new season to Erstligaabsteiger from Murcia. Through the first place after the main round was reached direct resurgence. Umeh also increased time to the first division, but he changed for the 2011/12 season as the new league rivals from Valladolid. In Valladolid, he could not assert himself and changed mid-December 2011 to the German first division then NewYorker Phantoms. After one season he left the German Bundesliga and moved this time in the second Italian league to league newcomer Legadue Aquila basket of Trento. This won the League Cup the second Italian league and was eliminated in the first play-off round to move up from. Then joined the Israeli Ligat ha Al Umeh in Bnei haScharon from Herzlia.

National

In the Africa Cup In 2009, in Libya Umeh for the Nigerian national basketball team in an average of 13 minutes playing time 4.7 points, 1.7 rebounds and 1.0 assists. After successful preliminary and intermediate rounds with only one defeat against the serial African champions Angola, the team was eliminated in the quarter- final against Cameroon, reaching at the end of 5th place in the tournament.

In the following Africa Cup 2011 in Antananarivo they reached the third place, after again Angola was beaten in the semifinals. In the bronze medal match you defeated the national team of the Ivory Coast. For the Olympic qualifying tournament Umeh was supplanted including by former Bundesliga player Tony Skinn and Ade Dagunduro from the squad. While the national team for the Olympic tournament in 2012 qualified in London and retired there in the first group stage after only a win over the African rivals Tunisia, Umeh was just a spectator at the Olympic Games.

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