Pavel Ermolinsky

Pavel Ermolinsky
Player information
birthday	January 25, 1987
place of birth	Kiev, Soviet Union
size	203 cm
position	Small Forward / Shooting Guard
Club information
society	KR Reykjavík
league	Úrvalsdeild karla
Clubs as active
2001–2002 UMF Skallagrímur 2002–2003 ÍR Reykjavík 2003–2004 JA Vichy 2004–2008 Unicaja Málaga 2005–2007 → Clínicas Rincón Axarquía 2007–2008 → CB Ciudad de Huelva 2008–2009 UB La Palma 2009–2010 Cáceres CB 2016 2010–2011 KR Reykjavík 2011–2012 Sundsvall Dragons 2012–2013 Norrköping Dolphins Since 2013 KR Reykjavík 0
National team
2004–	Iceland	55

Pavel Ermolinskij (born January 25, 1987 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ; Russian Павел Александрович Ермолинский ) is an Icelandic basketball player of Russian descent. As a talent he switched abroad at the age of 16, where he was trained and played first in France and then for six years in Spain . 2010 Pavel Ermolinskij returned to his home club KR in Reykjavík , interrupted only by two years in the Swedish basket league . In 2014, the Icelandic international qualified for the finals of the European Championship for the first time with the men's selection .

Career

Pavel Ermolinskij was born as the son of Alexander Ermolinskij , a Russian basketball player from Vologda who, among other things, had become Soviet champion with CSKA Moscow in the mid-1980s and played for Icelandic clubs in the top division from 1992 to around 2002. As a teenager , Pavel Ermolinsky had his first assignments with his father at UMF Skallagrím from Borgarnes . After Pavel Ermolinskij had also played at Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur in the capital, the young talent moved abroad to France in 2003 at the age of 16 . Here he came to the club Jeanne d'Arc de Vichy already on three short appearances in the highest French league LNB Pro A .

In the summer of 2004, the Icelandic youth international was signed by the European top club CB Unicaja from Málaga in Spain, which is one of the few clubs with an A license from the ULEB Euroleague . In the top division Liga ACB , Pavel Ermolinskij came on single missions for Unicaja, but was otherwise used in the youth team and with the cooperation partner Clínicas Rincón Axarquía from Torre del Mar in the third highest men's division LEB 2 . For the 2007/08 season he was finally loaned to the second division club from Huelva , who was signed off from professional play after finishing twelfth at the end of the season. This made it possible, among other things, for the penultimate Unión Baloncesto from Santa Cruz de La Palma from the Canaries to stay up, for which Pavel Ermolinskij played in the following season, in which the team also achieved relegation in 14th place. Another season in the second Spanish league LEB Oro began Pavel Ermolinskij for the club from Cáceres , the successor club of the former first division club and European Cup participant. But at the end of January 2010 the contract was terminated and Pavel Ermolinsky returned to his native Iceland.

After Pavel Ermolinskij had initially played for Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur in the capital and had won a national championship there in 2011, he moved abroad again in 2011 to the Dragons from Sundsvall in Sweden , where his compatriots Jakob Sigurðarson and Hlynur Bæringsson already played and also 2011 won the championship in Sweden. Together they failed to defend their title in the Basketligan in the first play-off round. For the following season, Pavel Ermolinskij moved to the new master Dolphins from Norrköping , who, however, was now defeated by Sundsvall Dragons 2013 in his title defense in the play-off semi-final series. After returning to KR in Reykjavík , Pavel Ermolinskij won two more Icelandic championships in 2014 and 2015.

In the Icelandic national team, Pavel Ermolinskij completed 55 appearances by summer 2016. While the men's selection could only celebrate noteworthy successes at the games of the small states of Europe , in the summer of 2014 one could meet with the experienced professionals Jón Arnór Stefánsson , Logi Gunnarsson , Jakob Sigurðarson and Hörður Vilhjálmsson , who have all been abroad and had played in the German basketball league , among others , qualifying for the finals of the European Championship for the first time . At the 2015 European Championship finals , the Icelandic selection played their first final game against hosts Germany in the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin .

Web links

• KKÍ.is: Pavel Ermolinskij: Ferillinn í úrvalsdeild - Profile and statistics on the websites of the Icelandic Association ( Icelandic )
• Pavel Ermolinskij - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• ERMOLINSKIJ, PAVEL - Profile and statistics on the FEB website ( Spanish )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} A-landslið karla: Leikjafjöldi leikmanna. KKÍ , accessed June 17, 2016 (Icelandic, list of record-breaking national players). 
2. ↑ Hver er hann þessi ALEXANDER ERMOLINSKIJ hjá Skallagrími? Leist ekkert á liðið í. Morgunblaðið , March 14, 1995, accessed September 6, 2015 (Icelandic). 
3. ↑ Alexander Ermolinskij: Ferillinn í úrvalsdeild. (No longer available online.) KKÍ , archived from the original on January 28, 2015 ; Retrieved September 6, 2015 (Icelandic, profile and statistics). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Pavel Ermolinskij - Vichy - Joueurs - Pro A. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed on September 6, 2015 (French, profile and statistics from the 2003/04 season). 
5. ↑ ACB.COM: P. Ermolinski. Liga ACB , accessed September 6, 2015 (Spanish, player profile). 
6. ^ El CB Ciudad de Huelva se hace con los servicios de Pavel Ermolinskij. FEB.es , August 15, 2007, accessed on September 6, 2015 (Spanish, media info from CB Huelva). 

Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .