Ingo Freyer is a German professional

basketball coach Basketball coaching is the act of directing and strategizing the behavior of a basketball team or individual basketball player. Basketball coaching typically encompasses the improvement of individual and team offensive and defensive skills, as wel ...

and former national team player.

Professional career

As player

Freyer earned 39 caps for the German men's national team. He participated in the 1995 European Championships. At the club level, he won the

1994–95 FIBA Korać Cup The 1994–95 FIBA Korać Cup was the 24th edition of FIBA's Korać Cup Korać is a surname. Notable persons with that name include: * Dušan Korać (disambiguation), multiple people * Milorad Korać (born 1969), Serbian football player and manag ...

with

Alba Berlin Alba Berlin is a German professional basketball club that is based in Berlin, Germany. The club was founded in 1991, and is today the largest German national basketball club by membership figures. Alba Berlin hosts its home games at the Mercedes ...

. Later in his career, he sealed promotion to the German

Basketball Bundesliga The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) (English language: ''Federal Basketball League''), for sponsorship reasons named easyCredit BBL, is the highest level league of professional club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season ...

three times (with SSV Weißenfels,

Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg (; Swabian: ''Ludisburg'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is ...

and

Quakenbrück Quakenbrück (Northern Low Saxon: ''Quokenbrügge'') is a town in the Osnabrück (district), district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Hase. It is part of the ''Samtgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") of Ar ...

As coach

Freyer led

Phoenix Hagen Phoenix Hagen is a German professional basketball club that is based in Hagen, Germany. After withdrawing from the Basketball Bundesliga in November 2016, Phoenix Hagen re-launched its basketball team for the 2017-18 ProA season. The ProA is Germ ...

to promotion to the German top-tier

in 2009. In November 2016, Hagen had its Bundesliga license revoked, Freyer left the team. Freyer's high-intensity and fast-paced style of play became his trademark. In 2022 (

Baskets Oldenburg Baskets Oldenburg, for sponsorship reasons EWE Baskets Oldenburg, is a professional basketball club that is based in the city of Oldenburg, Germany. The club plays in the Bundesliga. The club's name is derived from the team's main sponsor EWE AG ...

), 2023 (

Mitteldeutscher BC Mitteldeutscher Basketball Club ( en, Central German Basketball Club), for sponsorship reasons named SYNTAINICS MBC, and commonly known as MBC, is a professional basketball club based in Weißenfels, Germany. The club currently plays in the Baske ...

) and 2024 ( MLP Academics Heidelberg), Freyer saved Bundesliga teams from relegation.

Miscellaneous

In the past, Freyer was a commentary for

Eurosport Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through Warner Bros. Discovery Sports#Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe properties, its international sports unit, it operates two ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Freyer, Ingo 1971 births Living people German basketball coaches German expatriate basketball people in Italy German men's basketball players People from Wolfsburg Shooting guards Juvecaserta Basket players Riesen Ludwigsburg players USC Heidelberg coaches Alba Berlin players Mitteldeutscher BC players Eisbären Bremerhaven players Baskets Oldenburg coaches