Vitaly Valeryevich Fridson

Vitali Fridson
Player information
Full name	Vitaly Valeryevich Fridson
birthday	October 14, 1985
place of birth	Klinzy, Soviet Union
size	195 cm
position	Shooting Guard
Club information
society	PBK CSKA Moscow
league	PBL / VTB
Clubs as active
0000–2004 BK Standard Togliatti 2004–2013 BK Chimki Since 2013 PBK CSKA Moscow 0
National team
Since 2005 00	Russia

Vitaly Valeryevich Fridson medal table
Basketball (men)
Russia
Olympic games
bronze	2012 London
European Championship
bronze	2011 Lithuania

Vitaly Valeryevich Fridson ( Russian Виталий Валерьевич Фридзон ; born October 14, 1985 in Klinzy , RSFSR ) is a Russian basketball player . In 2004, when he was just 19 years old, Fridson moved to BK Chimki in Moscow Oblast and was with this club the 2008 Russian Cup winners and the 2011 Eastern European VTB United League . With the Russian national team, he won the bronze medal at the 2011 European Basketball Championships .

Club career

At the age of almost 19, the junior national player Fridson moved from the BK Standard from Togliatti to the Moscow suburb of Chimki to the basketball club based there. In his first season with this club he lost the series for third place in the Russian championship against UNICS Kazan . In the quarter-final series of the FIBA Europe League you could defeat this opponent, but then lost at the Final Four tournament in Istanbul in the semifinals against the later title holder BK Dynamo Saint Petersburg . In the game for third place you could defeat hosts Fenerbahçe Istanbul . Junior national player Fridson was not used that season in the FIBA ​​Europa League, but was appointed to the final squad of the Russian national team for the 2005 European basketball championship after winning the 2005 European Junior Championship . In the following season, Fridson was already an important substitute from the bench in the now called FIBA ​​EuroCup competition with fifteen minutes playing time per game. This time Chimki, who had in the meantime also strengthened themselves with the German national player Ademola Okulaja , won the semi-final against Dynamo from Saint Petersburg at the Final Four tournament in Kiev . In the final, however, they were clearly defeated by the Spanish club Joventut de Badalona . Dynamo Saint Petersburg could also be defeated in the semi-final series of the Russian championship and lost the final series of the 2006 championship without a win against the series champion and ULEB Euroleague winner PBK CSKA Moscow , who were also narrowly inferior in the final of the Russian cup competition.

In the 2006/07 season they competed in the ULEB Cup and reached the second round, in which they were defeated by KK Roter Stern Belgrade in both the return leg . In the Russian championship they reached third place this time. In the ULEB Cup 2007/08 you could clearly defeat the German club Köln 99ers in two games in the sixteenth finals , but then had no chance in the second round against the eventual title winner Joventut Badalona. In the final series of the Russian championship they were also without a win against champions CSKA Moscow, but this time they were able to win the Russian cup competition with an 85:67 final victory over CSKA. Also in the following three years you reached the final series of the Russian championship, in which you were inferior to the dominating series champion. The newly titled Eurocup 2008/09 it reached the final after under the new from Italy coming coach of Spain Sergio Scariolo in the " Elite Eight " tournament in Turin in the quarter- and semi-finals could conquer Spanish teams each. In the final itself they lost to the Lithuanian club Lietuvos rytas Vilnius . After the successes in the championship and the European Cup, they were allowed to compete in the top European division ULEB Euroleague in the 2009/10 season . Here they were eliminated in the second group stage of the sixteen best teams against the Spanish club Caja Laboral . In the ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 , however, they were eliminated in the first group stage. After Rimas Kurtinaitis , who was still the coach of final winner Lietuvos rytas in the ULEB Cup in 2009, took over the coaching position in March 2011 , the VTB United League was just won in the 2011 final against CSKA Moscow in its second edition . Fridson, the top scorer in the semifinals and the best rebounder in the final , was named Most Valuable Player of the VTB Final Four. After nine years with Chimki, Fridzon signed with CSKA Moscow in the summer of 2013.

National team

After winning the U20 European Junior Championship in 2005, Fridson was also appointed to the final squad of the 2005 European Basketball Championship for men. Russia lost in the quarter-finals against eventual European champions Greece and Fridson was given working time in the two games in the placement round, but both were lost, so that they finished eighth and did not qualify for the 2006 World Basketball Championship . For the 2007 European Championship , Fridson was one of the last two players from coach David Blatt to be eliminated from the final squad, with the result that Fridson was not involved in the Russians' surprising title win with the final victory against hosts Spain. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 Fridson was again a member of the final squad, but was used only slightly in the disappointing performance of the Russians with only one preliminary round victory. At the following European Championship in 2009 , Fridson was an integral part of the rotation of the players used. However, as the defending champion with the opening game, they only won once in the preliminary round and lost to a young German national basketball team . Nevertheless, it was enough to move into the intermediate round, in which you won all games, but lost in the quarter-finals against the eventual finalists Serbia and ultimately reached seventh place. In the game for seventh place against Turkey , Fridson offered his best tournament performance and was his team's top scorer with 26 points in 35 minutes . At the 2010 World Cup , they suffered their only defeat in the preliminary round against hosts Turkey, but then dropped out of the medal award in the quarter-finals against the eventual title winner United States . Fridson again offered his best tournament performance with 18 points in the final game for seventh place. At the EM 2011 they even won all games up to the semi-finals, including a new edition against Serbia in the quarter-finals. There they lost to France and were able to secure the bronze medal with a victory in the game for third place over the surprise team of the Macedonia tournament . At the 2012 Olympics, Fridson won the bronze medal with the Russian national team by beating Argentina 81:77 . With 4 points in the last minute, Fridzon played a key role in securing the narrow success.

Awards and Achievements

• 2008 Russian cup winner
• 2011, 2014, 2015 winner of the VTB United League
• 2011 MVP of the Final-Four Series VTB United League
• 2012 ULEB Eurocup winner
• 2012 Olympic Games bronze medalist in London

Web links

• Fridzon, VITALY - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Vitaliy FRIDZON (RUS) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• Vitaliy Fridzon in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Russia Champions! FIBA Europa , July 17, 2005, accessed October 27, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Vitaliy Fridzon / EuroCup 2006. FIBA Europe , accessed on October 27, 2011 (English, EuroCup 2006 player statistics). 
3. ↑ sheet named final squad. FIBA Europa , August 29, 2007, accessed October 27, 2011 . 
4. ↑ OLYM - Russia edge out Argentina in thriller to win bronze. (No longer available online.) FIBA , August 12, 2012, archived from the original on August 15, 2012 ; accessed on August 14, 2012 .