Leo Čizmić
| Bàsquet Girona | |||||||||||||||
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| Position | Small forward | ||||||||||||||
| League | LEB Plata | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | December 17, 1998 Afula, Israel | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Croatian | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 204 cm (6 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||
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| Playing career | 2015–present | ||||||||||||||
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| 2015–2017 | Sevilla | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Araberri | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–present | Girona | ||||||||||||||
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Leo Čizmić (born December 17, 1998) is an Israeli-born Croatian professional basketball player who plays for Bàsquet Girona of the LEB Plata.
Career
[edit]The son of former basketball player Teo Čizmić,[1] who was a member of the Yugoslavian junior national team and played professionally in a number of European countries, he was born in Israel, where his father was playing at the time.
Čizmić came through the youth ranks of KK Split and headed to Spain in 2014 to join Baloncesto Sevilla. He played for the club’s youth team and for their second men’s team, before making his debut in Spain’s top-tier Liga ACB in the 2015-16 season. He would then flit between Sevilla’s ACB squad and their affiliate teams.[2]
Čizmić moved to Araberri of the Spanish second-tier LEB Oro for the 2017-18 season.[3]
International career
[edit]He was a member of the Croatian national team that participated in the 2014 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship and the 2016 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "DraftExpress - Leo Cizmic DraftExpress Profile: Stats, Comparisons, and Outlook".
- ^ "Leo Cizmic Player Profile, Igualatorio Cantabria Estela Santander, News, Stats - Eurobasket".
- ^ "Leo Cizmic jugará cedido en Sáenz Horeca Araberri". www.feb.es. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
- ^ "Leo CIZMIC at the FIBA U18 European Championship Division a 2016".
External links
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- 1998 births
- Living people
- Araberri BC players
- Real Betis Baloncesto players
- Croatian expatriate basketball people in Spain
- Croatian men's basketball players
- Liga ACB players
- People from Afula
- Sportspeople from Northern District (Israel)
- Small forwards
- 21st-century Croatian sportsmen
- Croatian basketball biography stubs