Viktor Jonovich Keiru
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| Player information | ||
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| Full name | Viktor Jonovich Keiru | |
| birthday | January 31, 1984 | |
| place of birth | Rostov-on-Don, Soviet Union | |
| size | 200 cm | |
| position |
Shooting Guard / Small Forward |
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| Club information | ||
| society | Krasnye Krylja Samara | |
| league | PBL / VTB-UL | |
| Jersey number | 23 | |
| Clubs as active | ||
2001–2005 UNICS Kazan → 2004 EVRAZ Yekaterinburg 2005–2006 BK Dynamo Saint Petersburg 2006–2007 Spartak Primorye 2007–2008 UNICS Kazan 2008–2010 PBK CSKA Moscow 2010–2011 MBK Dynamo Moscow 2011–2012 BK Spartak Saint Petersburg Since 2013 Krasnye Krylja Samara
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| 2008 | Russia | |
Viktor Dschonowitsch Keiru ( Russian Виктор Джонович Кейру ; born January 31, 1984 in Rostov-on-Don , RSFSR ) is a Russian basketball player . Keiru played in 2008 in the Olympic squad of the Russian national team and was then active for two seasons for the dominant Russian basketball club CSKA Moscow. After further positions at Russian clubs, he is expected to return to the field in 2013 with the Russian EuroChallenge winner Krasnye Krylja Samara.
Career
Keiru was built up in the reserve and junior teams of UNICS from Kazan until 2003 . In the 2003/04 season, the 19-year-old Keiru got his first appearances in the first team of the reigning cup winner in the Russian top division Superleague Russia . In January 2004, the club from Yekaterinburg , named after its sponsor Evraz group , was loaned out, but the season ended with only two victories as bottom of the table. For the 2004/05 season he returned to UNICS after participating in the U20 European Championship, the 2004 title winners were in the FIBA Europe League , in which Keiru was used in almost half of the games before his move. In 2005 they became third in the Russian championship and vice cup winner.
In 2005 Keiru moved to St. Petersburg to Dynamo . The club, which was only founded in 2004, took the place of Arsenal from Tula in its first season and, as the successor to UNICS, became the 2005 FIBA Europe League winner. In the 2005/06 season they again reached the Final Four tournament in this competition, which was now called FIBA EuroCup, but lost the semi-final against national competitor BK Chimki and then the small final against the Ukrainian hosts BK Kiev . The play-off semi- final series of the Russian championship was also lost to second in the main round against sixth-placed BK Chimki and then finished third. After the end of the season, the young club ran out of money and the team dissolved. Keiru moved to the Pacific coast to Spartak Primorye, which is based in the capital Vladivostok of the Primorye region . When promoted to the preseason Keiru could, among other things, together with the experienced point guard Derrick Phelps qualified for the play-offs for the championship, in which one former in the first round against Keirus club UNICS retired the first time. In the 2007/08 season he returned to UNICS and ended up third in the Russian championship. At the ULEB Cup 2007/08 they reached the Elite Eight final tournament. His achievements earned him a nomination for the national team and he took part with the national team in the 2008 Olympic Games . The reigning European champion disappointed there and retired after just one preliminary round win in five games.
Keiru had not only recommended himself for the national team, the dominant Russian basketball club and reigning ULEB Euroleague title holder PBK CSKA Moscow also accepted Keiru into its squad in 2008. In the first-class squad of CSKA Keiru could not prevail in the following two seasons due to injuries and only remained a substitute player. With CSKA he twice reached the Final Four in the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague, where the defending champion lost the final against Panathinaikos Athens in 2009 and finished third in 2010. In the Russian championship you could successfully defend your title and also won the Russian Cup and the newly established Eastern European VTB United League in 2010 . In the 2010/11 season he played for local rivals MBK Dynamo. In addition to sporting failure as penultimate at the end of the season in the Professionalnaja Basketbolnaja League , which had been newly established as the highest Russian division, Dynamo also had to struggle with financial problems, which at the end of the season was the reason for Dynamo's exclusion from the top division. As in 2006, Keiru moved from Dynamo to Spartak in 2011, this time not from Vladivostok, but to the reigning Russian cup winner BK Spartak from Saint Petersburg. Due to injury, his contract was not extended in the summer of 2012.
Web links
- KEYRU, VICTOR - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
- archive.fiba.com: Players - Victor KEYRU (RUS) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
- PBC CSKA Moscow | Team | Victor Keyru - player profile on the website of CSKA Moscow (English, as of 2010)
- Viktor Keyru in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Russia's Victor Keiru. FIBA Europe , July 31, 2004, accessed November 3, 2011 .
- ↑ UNICS KAZAN / FIBA Europe League 2004. FIBA Europe , accessed on November 3, 2011 (English).
- ↑ Shorthanded in Madrid. PBK CSKA Moscow , November 5, 2008, accessed November 3, 2011 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Keiru, Viktor Dzonovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Кейру, Виктор Джонович; Keyru, Viktor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostov-on-Don , Russian SFSR |