Armenak Alachachian
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Born | Nashchyokovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 25 December 1930
Died | 4 December 2017 Perm, Russia | (aged 87)
Nationality | Soviet / Russian / Armenian |
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Armenak Alachachian (alternate spellings: Armenak Alajajian or Alatchatchan) (Armenian: Արմենակ Միսակի Ալաջաջյան, December 25, 1930 – December 4, 2017) was an Armenian-Soviet basketball player and coach. A point guard, he reached European stardom with CSKA Moscow and the senior men's Soviet Union national team. He was the first person to ever win a EuroLeague title as both a player and a coach.
Club career
Alachachian helped CSKA lift its first EuroLeague title in 1961. He added a second title in 1963, and reached another final in 1965, before retiring.
National team career
As a player of the senior men's Soviet national team, Alachachian won four gold medals at the 1953, 1961, 1963, and 1965 EuroBasket, as well as a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games.
Coaching career
Aleksandar Gomelsky, at the time CSKA's sports director, assigned him at the coach position in the late 1960s, and Alachachian led the Reds to the 1969 Euroleague title, thus becoming the first man to lift the trophy, as both a player and a coach.
See also
References
- FIBA Profile "Armenak Alachachian"
- FIBA Profile "Armenak Alatchatchan"
- Fibaeurope.com Profile
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Armenak Alachachian". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- Euroleague.net - Player nominees for Euroleague's 50 Greatest Contributors
- Armenak Alachachian's obituary
- 1930 births
- 2017 deaths
- Armenian men's basketball players
- Basketball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players from Alexandria
- Egyptian people of Armenian descent
- Egyptian emigrants to the Soviet Union
- EuroLeague-winning coaches
- FIBA EuroBasket-winning players
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic basketball players for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in basketball
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- PBC CSKA Moscow coaches
- Point guards
- Soviet Armenians
- Soviet men's basketball players