Vasily Nikolayevich Karassev

Vasily Karasev
Basketball player Vasily Karasev during his appearances for Locomotive., 2003
Player information
Full name	Wassili Nikolajewitsch Karasjow
birthday	14th April 1971 (age 49)
place of birth	Leningrad , Soviet Union
size	193 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	Point guard
Clubs as active
1990–1992 BK Spartak Saint Petersburg 1992–1996 CSKA Moscow 1996–1997 Efes Pilsen Istanbul 1997–1998 Alba Berlin 1998–2000 CSKA Moscow 2000–2001 Iraklis Thessaloniki 2001–2002 Ural Great Perm 2002–2003 Locomotive Minwody 2003–2005 BK Chimki 2005 –2006 Ural Great Perm 2006–2008 Universitet Yugra Surgut 2008–2009 Triumph Lyubertsy
National team
1993-2003	Russia
Clubs as coaches
2009–2012 Triumph Lyubertsy (junior & assistant coach) 2010–2011 Russia U19 (assistant coach) 2012–2018 Triumph Lyubertsy

Wassili Nikolajewitsch Karassjow medal table
Basketball (men)
Russia
World championships
silver	1994 Toronto	Russia
silver	1998 Athens	Russia
European Championship
silver	1993 Germany	Russia
bronze	1997 Spain	Russia

Wassili Nikolajewitsch Karasjow ( Russian Василий Николаевич Карасёв ; English transcription Vasily Karasev ; born April 14, 1971 in Leningrad , RSFSR ) is a Russian basketball coach and former player.

As a Russian national player , Karasjow was a two-time runner-up in the world championship and a two-time medalist at European basketball championships . At club level he reached the Final Four of the ULEB Euroleague with CSKA Moscow in 1996 and became multiple Russian champion with this club and Ural Great as well as Turkish champion with Efes Pilsen in 1997 and German champion with Alba Berlin in 1998.

Since the beginning of 2012 he has been coaching the professional men's team of Triumph from Lyubertsy from Moscow Oblast , with which he was able to achieve third place in the European club competition EuroChallenge 2012.

Career

Club career

Karasjow moved in 1992 from BK Spartak from his birthplace to the dominant Russian basketball club and serial champion CSKA in Moscow , which won all Russian championships up to and including 2000 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1996, the previously four-time winner of the European Champions Cup made it into the final tournament of the highest European competition, introduced in 1988, where in the semifinals the eventual winner Panathinaikos Athens with star players Dominique Wilkins , Panagiotis Giannakis and Stojko Vranković was defeated. In the game for 3rd place they won against the Spanish defending champion Real Madrid . Karasjow then moved to the Korać Cup winner 1996 Efes Pilsen in Istanbul and won the Turkish championship in 1997 with this. The 1997/98 season he played in the German basketball league at ALBA Berlin, the 1995 the predecessor of Efes Pilsen as Korać -Cup winners. With the German club he reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup, the furthest advance a German club had made in this European competition until then, where the eventual finalist AEK Athens was defeated. At the national level he was able to defend his title as German champion. Karasev then returned to CSKA in Moscow for two years. The 2000/01 season he played in Greece with Iraklis in Thessaloniki , where he won no national title. This season, CSKA reached the Final Four of the Suproleague once again , the follow-up competition to the European Champion Clubs' Cup, which was finally replaced in 2001 by the newly created ULEB Euroleague , but lost the Russian championship to Ural Great from Perm for the first time . Karasjow, however, returned to Russia in 2001 and joined the defending champions Ural Great, of all places, who in 2002 triumphed over CSKA in Russia one more time and for the last time. The following seasons he played for various Russian clubs before he returned to Ural Great in 2005 and won the rather insignificant FIBA EuroCup Challenge with this club in 2006 . This was the club's last title win before going bankrupt in 2008. Subsequently, Karasjow ended his playing career at various Russian clubs.

National team career

Karasjow was a selection player in his country for many years. His first final round was the European Championship in 1993 , which was also the first championship, where all successor states of the Eastern bloc states Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union , which had previously dominated in the 70s and 80s, competed separately. Russia fought their way to the final, where they lost to host Germany in the final seconds and won the silver medal. At the 1994 World Cup , all other European teams were left behind and only had to admit defeat to the dominating United States , which, like the 1992 Olympics, competed for the first time in a world championship with NBA professionals. At the following European Championship in 1995 , they disappointed with seventh place after a quarter-final defeat against regional rivals Lithuania . In the placement round, they were also inferior to Italy , which would subsequently develop into a feared opponent at the European Championships for Russia and Karasjow. As a further consequence, one could not qualify for the 1996 Olympic Games .

At the following European Championship in 1997 , another medal was won. After eliminating hosts Spain in the quarter-finals , they lost in the semi-finals to the Italians, who had not been defeated until then. In the game for third place, they received their revenge for the preliminary round defeat against Greece analogous to the final, where title winner Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was able to make up for the preliminary round defeat against Italy. At the subsequent World Cup in 1998 , the United States competed largely without NBA professionals due to a lockout and were defeated by Russia in the semifinals in a final victory for 1994. In the final itself you could not take revenge for the preliminary round defeat after extra time against Yugoslavia and lost against this opponent after a half-time lead in the end with just two points. Karasjow himself was chosen as the best player in his position in the all-tournament team of the finals.

The 1999 European Championship was rather disappointing when the fight for the medals was bid farewell in the quarter-finals against the eventual title holder Italy. After beating Germany in the placement round, they lost the game for fifth place against rivals Lithuania significantly. Russia managed to qualify for the Olympics, but Karasjow did not take part in the 2000 Olympics under the new national coach Stanislav Eremin . In 2002 he was back in the final squad of the Russians at the 2002 World Cup . Russia met in the preliminary and intermediate rounds on all four later semi-finalists and also lost all these games, which is why they could not qualify for the quarter-finals. The EM 2003 was not much more pleasant. After a quarter-final defeat against the previously undefeated French , they also lost the other placement games against Serbia and Montenegro and Israel . Qualification for the 2004 Olympics was again missed and Karasjow's national team career ended without participating in the Olympics.

Coaching career

In 2009 Karasjow was first coach of the youth team of Triumph, where he had previously ended his playing career. A year later he became assistant to Valdemaras Chomičius , himself as a 1988 Olympic champion as a player , in the club's professional men's team. He also became an assistant in the Russian U19 youth team, in whose squad were three young Triumph players at the U19 World Cup, including his son Sergei Karasjow . The U19 World Cup in Riga , Latvia, ended after winning the bronze medal after a quarter-final victory over the US junior selection , with the team of Karasjow's son and his teammates from Triumph Dmitri Kulagin , who was elected to the all-star team of the tournament, in the Points category.

At the beginning of 2012, Chomičius took a leave of absence as head coach for health reasons and Karasjow became the main coach. While Chomičius finally left the club a few weeks later and took over as head coach of the Ukrainian club BK Dnipro Dnipropetrowsk , Karasjow was able to surprisingly eliminate the Spanish club Mad-Croc Fuenlabrada and into the final with the comparatively young team in the EuroChallenge 2012 in the quarter-final play-offs Four tournament of this competition. In the semifinals, however, they were defeated by the French representative Élan Chalon and in the end achieved third place in this European club competition after a victory in the "small final" over the Hungarian host Szolnoki Olaj KK . In the Russian professional league , it was also enough to move into the small final series for third place, which they had already occupied after the regular season . In July 2013 Karasjow coached the Russian national student team with which he won the Universiade 2013 .

Web links

• Василий Карасев: Главный тренер - БК "Триумф" ( Memento from January 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) - Trainer profile on the website of Triumph Lyubertsy (Russian)
• Players - Vasily Karasev (RUS). archive.fiba.com - Overview of participation as a national player in official FIBA competitions (English)
• Vasily Karasev (Russia) - Player statistics from European competitions on the website of FIBA Europe (English)
• Karasev, Vasileios - player profile on the ULEB Euroleague website

Individual evidence

1. ^ According to other information, not until 1993
2. ↑ Final Four, Boxscore 1996. (No longer available online.) ULEB , archived from the original on April 27, 2012 ; accessed on May 8, 2012 (English, tournament statistics). 
3. ^ Ural Great Claim Trophy Despite Final Loss. FIBA Europa , March 23, 2006, accessed May 8, 2012 . 
4. ↑ RUS / ARG - Kulagin leads Russia to bronze. (No longer available online.) FIBA , July 10, 2011, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on May 8, 2012 . 
5. ^ MVP and All Star Five. (No longer available online.) FIBA , July 15, 2011, archived from the original on December 7, 2015 ; accessed on May 8, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Team Russia Profile - 2011 FIBA ​​U19 World Championship / Team Leaders - Points. (No longer available online.) FIBA , archived from the original on May 14, 2012 ; accessed on May 8, 2012 . 
7. ^ Triumph Stun Hosts To Claim Third Place. FIBA Europa , April 29, 2012, accessed May 8, 2012 .