Ingo Freyer
German basketball player and coach
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Ingo Freyer is a German professional basketball coach and former national team player.
Freyer with Heidelberg in 2024 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 February 1971 |
| Listed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
| Career information | |
| Playing career | 1989–2004 |
| Position | Shooting guard |
| Coaching career | 2004–present |
| Career history | |
Playing | |
| –1991 | SC Rist Wedel |
| 1991–1995 | Alba Berlin |
| 1995–1997 | Brandt Hagen |
| 1997 | JuveCaserta Basket |
| 1998 | SSV Ulm |
| 1998–2001 | Mitteldeutscher BC |
| 2001–2002 | BG Ludwigsburg |
| 2002–2003 | TSV Quakenbrück |
| 2003–2004 | Eisbären Bremerhaven |
Coaching | |
| 2004–2007 | SC Rist Wedel |
| 2007–2016 | Phoenix Hagen |
| 2017–2020 | Gießen 46ers |
| 2022 | EWE Baskets Oldenburg |
| 2023 | Mitteldeutscher BC |
| 2024 | MLP Academics Heidelberg |
Professional career
As player
Freyer earned 39 caps for the German men's national team.[1] He participated in the 1995 European Championships. At the club level, he won the 1994–95 FIBA Korać Cup with Alba Berlin.[2] Later in his career, he sealed promotion to the German Basketball Bundesliga three times (with SSV Weißenfels, Ludwigsburg and Quakenbrück).[3]
As coach
Freyer led Phoenix Hagen to promotion to the German top-tier Basketball Bundesliga in 2009.[4] In November 2016, Hagen had its Bundesliga license revoked,[5] Freyer left the team.[4]
Freyer's high-intensity[6] and fast-paced style of play[7] became his trademark.
In 2022 (Baskets Oldenburg), 2023 (Mitteldeutscher BC) and 2024 (MLP Academics Heidelberg), Freyer saved Bundesliga teams from relegation.[8]