Wilfrid Aka

Wilfrid Aka
Position Point Guard
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
League French League
Team Paris-Levallois Basket
Born 16 June 1979 (1979-06-16) (age 32)
Paris, France
Nationality Côte d'Ivoire / France
Pro career 1999–present

Wilfrid Aka (born 16 June 1979 in Paris) is a French-born Côte d'Ivoirean basketball player currently playing for Paris-Levallois Basket.[1] He is also a member of the Côte d'Ivoire national basketball team.

Aka has spent his entire career playing for teams in the French Ligue Nationale de Basketball.[2] Aka joined his most recent team, Paris-Levallois Basket, before the 2008-09 season.[3] He helped the team, which had just suffered relegation the year before, return to the top-tier of French basketball by winning the B Division of the League. He averaged 2.3 points per game and saw action in 26 games off the bench for the team. He returned to the team for the 2009-10 season.[4]

Aka competed as a member of the Côte d'Ivoire national basketball team for the first time at the 2009 FIBA Africa Championship.[5] He saw action in all nine games for the Ivorians, who won the silver medal to qualify for the 2010 FIBA World Championship.[6]

References

  1. ^ Wilfrid Aka Profile at eurobasket.com
  2. ^ Wilfrid Aka at basketpedya.com
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ Profile at eurobasket.com
  5. ^ Wilfrid Aka at FIBA.com
  6. ^ FIBA Archive