Andreas Schreiber
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Martin Andreas Schreiber (born July 21, 1987) is a Swedish basketball player playing for CB Tarragona
CB Tarragona
Club Bàsquet Tarragona, more commonly referred to today by its sponsorship name of Tarragona Bàsquet 2017, is a professional Basketball team based in Tarragona, Catalonia. The team currently plays in league LEB Oro.-Season by season:-Roster:...

 . He is 206 cm (6"9 ft) and can play both Center
Center (basketball)
The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well...

 and the Power Forward
Power forward (basketball)
Power forward is a position in the sport of basketball. The position is referred to in playbook terms as the four position and is commonly abbreviated "PF". It has also been referred to as the "post" position. Power forwards play a role similar to that of center in what is called the "post" or "low...

 position.

Pro career

Andreas is born in Täby
Täby
Täby is a trimunicipal locality and the seat of Täby Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden, with 58,593 inhabitants in 2005. It is also partly located in Danderyd Municipality and Sollentuna Municipality...

, a suburb of Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

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In his Pro Career he played for 08 Stockholms Junior Team
08 Stockholm Human Rights
08 Stockholm Human Rights is a basketball team in Stockholm, based in Alvik.The team was created in 1996 by five separate basketball clubs in Stockholm , to create a strong club with equal conditions for all.The name for 08 Stockholm...

, KFUM Söder. After he graduated in the Highschool, Schreiber was offered an athletic Scholarship to University of Pennsylvania to play for the Penn Quakers
Penn Quakers
The Penn Quakers are the athletic teams of the University of Pennsylvania. The school sponsors 27 varsity sports. The school has won three NCAA national championships in men's fencing and one in women's fencing.-Men's crew:-Football:...

 He played there during four years.

After he graduated with a business degree, Schreiber went to Spain to play for CB Tarragona
CB Tarragona
Club Bàsquet Tarragona, more commonly referred to today by its sponsorship name of Tarragona Bàsquet 2017, is a professional Basketball team based in Tarragona, Catalonia. The team currently plays in league LEB Oro.-Season by season:-Roster:...

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National team

Andreas Schreiber plays also for Sweden national basketball team
Sweden national basketball team
The Swedish national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Sweden in international competitions. Sweden already entered 9 EuroBasket finals, but their best result was only 11 th place at EuroBasket 1995...

. He played the Eurobasket 2011 Division B
Eurobasket 2011 Division B
The EuroBasket Division B was the second-ranked tier of the bi-annual EuroBasket competition. All the teams of this campaign will qualify for the EuroBasket 2013 qualification.-Group A: ----------------------------------------------------...

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