At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, men's basketball was listed as an Olympic sport for the first time. In the past 16 Olympic men's basketball competitions, the US men's basketball team has won 13 championships, the former Soviet Union has won 2 championships, and the former Yugoslavia and Argentina have won 1 championship each. That is, the U.S. team has won the most championships, and they control the vast majority of games in their own hands: seasoned and high-spirited. Then in the 1972 Olympic basketball final in Munich, Germany, the Soviet team defeated the US team to maintain the championship record for 36 years. It can be said to be pioneering and surprising! In addition to the hard work of the Soviet players on the field, the coach's wise guidance and charisma are also the key to winning!
Who is this coach? He is the Soviet national treasure basketball coach: Alexander Germyers (now the name of the National Stadium in Moscow). Born in January 1928 in Kronstadt, a military port city not far from St. Petersburg. The Second World War came when he was still young. Fortunately, Gmelsky did not enlist in the army due to his age. Fortunately, he fought in the meat grinder-like battle of Leningrad (ie St. Petersburg). survived. After the brutal war, 20-year-old Gmelsky began his coaching career in 1948. Yes you heard that right, he started coaching the basketball team when he was just 20 years old when he became the head coach of the St. Petersburg Spartak.
In 1953, the increasingly experienced Gmelsky left his hometown to coach the ASK and Riga teams, and led the team to three championships in the former Soviet basketball league. Talented people. In 1966, Gmelsky was appointed as the head coach of CSKA Moscow, where he stayed for 22 years: 16 championships in the former Soviet Basketball League, three Soviet Cups, and one EuroBasket Champions Cup. . After being allowed to coach abroad, Gmelsky also went to Spain and France to coach, Spain Fenerbahce is one of the teams he has coached.
In the 1972 Olympic Games, Gmelsky was the head coach of the former Soviet Union men's basketball national team and would lead the team to the Olympic Games. But before departure, Gmelsky's passport was confiscated by the KGB, on the grounds that Gmelsky, as a Jew, was likely to defect to Israel through the Olympics. Because of such a trumped-up charge, the former Soviet men's basketball coach was replaced by Kondrasin, but there is no such paragraph in the film, but the head coach's work is carried out to the end.
As a coach, he not only cares about the life and psychology of each player in every possible way, but even treats the players he selects as his own children: he keeps secrets for them, and he does not hesitate to take out the money to pay for his son's medical treatment. The transplant operation fee (he was the one who scored the winning goal in the end), persuading the leaders to let the players go to the United States to play many actual practice games. It's rare to be a coach like this, no! It is very rare. In the film, we saw that the players are very hard-working. In order to repay the kind and lovely coach, they are all playing hard!
The whole game was played with the Soviets winning a big 7 to 10 point lead until the dramatic change in the final 40 seconds when the U.S. tied the score and took a one-point lead before the final three seconds. But in the end, fortunately, under a fair game environment, the Soviet team won the championship with only one point over.
The coach was the head coach of the Soviet national team in 1961 and was known as the "Godfather of Soviet basketball". He was the biggest contributor to the rapid improvement of Soviet basketball in the 1960s. Excellent players such as Lauskas and Volnov were recruited into the national team, and these players became the mainstay of Soviet basketball in the 1960s and 1970s. Special mention should be made of Sergey Belov, who was the top star of the Soviet Union as a shooting guard. He led the Soviet team to win the Olympic, World and European Championships and was recognized as the best African player in the world at that time. American basketball player, his strength even arrogant Americans have to admire.
In 1992, Sergei Belov was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the first non-American player to receive this honor, and the only Hall of Famer who has never played in the NBA. Speaking of this player, he is also particularly eye-catching in the film. He has a thick beard, a strong body, and a tall man who runs flexibly on the court (especially hard in usual training).
In order to defend against the tall and strong American players, the smart coach made the new players run desperately on the field. It consumed the stamina and stamina of a lot of American players and maintained a very large lead for a long time, which made the American players become restless and angry, and made their coaches restless. Later, they used a bad move: rudely hit the Soviet players, causing them to fall to the ground with frequent injuries. It was so terrible that it lost the morality and face of professional players! But Sergei Belov, as the main player, went straight to the field after a brief nursing session after each injury. It was because there were so many players on the field who worked as hard as him that the Soviet Union could win the eventual championship.
By querying Baidu Encyclopedia, I learned that coach Alexander Gemelsky did not stop moving forward, but only made his Olympic gold medal dream come true 16 years later. In the 1988 Seoul (now Seoul) Olympic Games, he led the former Soviet men's basketball team to win the championship again! The Soviet team after that has not been able to win the championship again. Maybe there is no coach like him as a friend? After winning the Olympic championship, Gmelsky retired bravely. At the age of 67, he announced the end of his coaching career in the same year and became the president of CSKA Moscow.
In 1995, Gmelsky was inducted into the NBA Basketball Hall of Fame, becoming the only former Soviet head coach to be selected. In 2007, Gmelsky was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame. Regrettably, the brilliant coaching career did not help Gemelski escape the attack of the disease. Gmelsky, who was diagnosed with cancer in 1998, insisted on fighting the disease for 7 years, and finally died on August 16, 2005, at the age of 77.
After Russian President Vladimir Putin heard the news, he immediately called his family to express his deep condolences, and highly praised and affirmed his contribution to national basketball throughout his life. Russian Sports Minister Vyacheslav Fetsov said: "His death is a loss for the entire world of sports. He was a great tactician and strategist, as well as a great psychologist. As a coach, he stood At the forefront of everyone in the same period." Yes, a good coach can cultivate excellent players; and excellent players can create miracles, because there is no impossibility!
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