Homenetmen Football Coach - Klauss Celadon

No. of years spent coaching

15 years.

No. of years spent coaching Homenetmen London

1 year.

Other Sporting Interests / Hobbies

Water Polo and Fitness (Head Coach).

Motto / Favourite Quote

‘GO ON, GO ON!’

Biggest achievement to date

He was a professional player in Brazil (Clube Atletico Juventus).

Player’s Commentary

Klauss Celadon is our trainer

He played for Juventus in Brazil

Where he was a great player

 

He came to Homenetmen

Improved our defence

Improved our offence

Showed us a new samba style

But made us run that extra mile

 

The future under Klauss is bright

With success hopefully just around the corner

People will be talking about Homenetmen’s might

This is Klauss's corner

 

 

Source: Alex Katsouris (Men’s football team player)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homenetmen Men’s Basketball Coach - Peter Deppisch (Deppischian for us)

Vital Stats

DOB : 06/11/1970

HEIGHT : 6’6”

POSITION : Shooting Guard

No. of years spent coaching

9 years.

No. of years spent coaching Homenetmen London

1 year.

Other Sporting Interests / Hobbies

only one, drinking beer...

Motto / Favourite Quote

"SHOOT ! SHOOT THAT BALL... "

"GUYS WE CAN DO IT... "

Player’s Commentary

Pete started his journey with basketball at the age of 6 with his school team in the States. He continued to play in college where he reached the national final with North Rhode Ireland Junior College but unfortunately they lost....

 

Pete never gave up he kept on playing and at the age of 21 he was voted  "Player of the year" in the Massachusetts conference.

 

Pete eventually moved to Europe to play professionally in Germany, Portugal and finally in the U.K.

 

He moved to Germany in 1995 and played for the teams Langen, Koblenz and Ruhr (with whom he won the division).

 

After playing for a season in Portugal with Estoril Basketball club he moved to the U.K. He played for the Manchester Giants, the London Leopards and is currently trying to play for London United (believe me I have seen him TRYING to play...).

 

Now enough about him as a player, let’s move on to his coaching career and success.

Pete started coaching in 1995. He is known for his "Summer Camps" and "Shooting Camps".

Why shooting.... ‘cause the man can shoot.....and shoot from any place, corner or position, regardless of if you’re in his face or not he will shoot and you know what he scores...

 

Pete’s life is basketball. He coaches several school teams, London United junior programs, Brunel University and us, HMEM men’s Basketball team.

 

Unfortunately he hasn’t won any trophies as a coach yet, he’s relying on us ... (no comment).

 

I have seen Pete as a coach and as a player and guys this man can talk as much as he shoots.... (and that’s a lot).

He talks before the game, during the warm up, while he’s coaching and while he’s playing. He also likes to collect technical fouls.... he loves the referees.

But if you want to know how many baskets he scored check out the fourth quarter (Money time) and its always multiple’s of three...

 

There’s only one more thing to say about Pete Deppisch and that’s that we wish him all the luck in the world, he’s a top bloke and a top coach!

 

 

Read the latest 'Ealing Times' report on London United's game where Pete gets numerous mentions for his top scoring capability which includes 4 successive three pointers!

 

 

Source: Sevan Artin (Men’s basketball team player)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homenetmen Ladies Basketball Coach - Sevan Artin

No. of years spent coaching

Since he was 16 years old.

No. of years spent coaching Homenetmen London

2 years (but yet it feels like all our lives).

Other Sporting Interests / Hobbies

Let's just say he has been known to scream the name Arsene (that’s Mr Wenger to everyone else) a few times in his sleep.

Motto / Favourite Quote

"My grandmother can do a better lay-up than that".

 

Biggest achievement to date

Winning the cup, the league and coming third in the Pan-Arabic Championship with Homenetmen Lebanon Ladies Basketball team in 1997-98.

Player’s Commentary

Lets see, where to begin about coach Sevan Artin. Well firstly since he began coaching us there have been 2 major differences within the team and those have been the welcome additions of the 2 trophies we proudly won in Geneva (2003) and Amsterdam (2004). Some may think it was easy but if you've ever been to one of our training sessions you will know better (if you don’t believe me I dare you to join in). I know I speak on behalf of all the girls when I say we couldn’t have done it without him.

 

So what is Sevan like as a coach? He is hard working, determined, dedicated and humorous.

 

Hard working because all he thinks about is basketball and ways in which we can improve our game. You may be wondering what state his social life is in, well we wonder too!

 

Determined because he has specific targets set for us and no matter how much blood, sweat and tears we go through we WILL achieve them (and believe me there is plenty of blood, sweat and tears!).

 

Dedicated because lets be honest anyone that can put up with 10 Armenian ladies for 2 hours, twice a week, surely has dedication (or a few screws loose).

 

Finally, how is he humorous you may be wondering? Well it’s all those funny comments he makes, like "if this was Lebanon I could have shot you for that pass" or "if only I had my gun then I could make you run". He really has a great sense of humour ‘cause we know he loves us really, don’t you coach?

 

 

Source: Alenoosh Avanesian (Ladies basketball team player)