Valdemaras Chomičius

Valdemaras Chomičius (2011)

Valdemaras Pjatrasowitsch Chomičius (born May 4, 1959 in Kaunas ; Russian Вальдемарас Пятрасович Хомичюс ) is a Lithuanian basketball coach and former Soviet- Lithuanian player. During his days as a point guard , he was with the selection of the USSR in 1988 Olympic champion , 1982 world champion and 1979 and 1983 European champion. After the fall of the USSR, with the selection of Lithuania, he was third in the Olympic basketball tournament in 1992 , and vice-European champion in 1995 . Since his active time he has mostly worked as an assistant coach for clubs in the Russian Superleague Russia , currently at UNICS Kazan .

Club career as a player

Chomičius is a graduate of the Lithuanian Sports Academy , he played for Žalgiris Kaunas in his youth , before he first appeared in the Soviet elite class in 1977 and quickly became a national player. At Žalgiris Kaunas he belonged to the tribe of the so-called "Golden Generation of Lithuania" around Arvydas Sabonis , who broke the dominance of Moscow clubs in the 1980s and won the USSR championship three times in a row from 1985-87 and the Intercontinental Cup in 1986 .

In 1989 he moved to the Spanish club Fórum Valladolid and a period of frequent club changes began; 1990/91 Fortitudo Bologna , 1991 CAI Saragossa , 1992/94 he played for various Belgian clubs before moving to the then Spanish second division club CB Málaga in 1994 . After two years in Spain he went back to Lithuania as a player assistant coach in the Lithuanian Basketball League , where he ended his active career until 1999.

Club coach

After Chomičius had finally stopped active ball game in 1999, the Russian club PFK Ural Great from Perm took him under contract as an assistant coach; he held this post until the summer of 2003, when the capital club MBK Dynamo Moscow hired him as head coach, but dismissed him after only two months. He returned to the assistant coaching post at Ural Great. In 2004 he was appointed head coach of Ural Great after his previous boss Sergei Below had been fired due to unsuccessfulness, but was also dismissed in the same season.

Since then he has been a trainer assistant at UNICS Kazan .

International career

Chomičius celebrated his greatest international success with the selection of the USSR, to which he was appointed in 1979 shortly after his first division debut. In his first year as a national player, he won the first of five European Championship medals for the USSR (gold 1979, 1985; silver 1987, bronze 1983, 1999) as European champion . At his first world championships three years later he became world champion ; Because of the Soviet boycott , however, he missed the Olympic tournament in 1984 , but ran at the 1988 Games and became Olympic champion. The EM bronze in 1989 was his last title for the USSR, in 1990, like all Balts, he no longer competed for the USSR.

But he was also successful with the new Lithuanian national team: in 1992 they won the Olympic bronze, and in 1995 they won the European runner-up title. After his active time, he was an assistant coach from 2000 to 2006 in addition to his club activities and thus had a share in the 2000 Olympic bronze and the 2003 European Championship .

At the beginning of 2008, Valdemaras Chomičius was one of a group of 105 basketball players who were nominated by the Euroleague basketball and / or basketball enthusiasts to determine fifty important figures in the sport of basketball in Europe , active in the period 1958 to 2008 and subsequently in Madrid in May 2008 ( Spain ). All the nominated players played a particularly prominent role in the European Cup competitions of FIBA Europe and the Euroleague basketball and were each among the particularly prominent 'stars' of their national league teams.

Web links

• Profile Chomicius on basketnews.lt ( Lithuanian )

Individual evidence

1. ^ NN: The All-Time Player Nominees. ( Memento of January 2, 2015 on the Internet Archive ) Archived from EuroLeague website; Barcelona, ​​January 2, 2015. Accessed February 2, 2019.