Vassil Evtimov
Vassil Iliev Evtimov ( Bulgarian Васил Евтимов; * May 30, 1977 in Sofia, Bulgaria ) is a Bulgarian - French professional basketball player who has played in several European countries. The greatest success of the two-time European Championship participant, including once for his adopted France and his native Bulgaria, was winning the Saporta Cup with Marousi Athens 2001. In the BBL season 2010/11 played Vasco Evtimov, as it is also called for short periods even in the German basketball league at the MBC from Weissenfels. There, he attracted attention by a " buzzer beater " from 23 meters. After his contract was not renewed for the year, he returned over the French League to Bulgaria back.
College in the United States
Evtimov grew up in France and was initially active in his youth for French national teams. In 1996 he began studying at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. The university is famous for its basketball team Tar Heels, which was coached until 1997 by the highly successful coach and member of the Hall of Fame Dean Smith. Also Evtimov was a player of that team in the NCAA Division I. In 1997, the double - citizen, was drafted into the Bulgarian military service, but he made the French military. To be recommended for the French men's national team, Evtimov played in the 1997/98 season in the French LNB Pro A for the club Élan Béarnais from Pau, who were at that season French champion. However, participation in the French championship was against the regulations of the NCAA, so that he was suspended after his return to college in 1998 for several games. Following Evtimov finished his studies in the U.S. and played from now on as a professional in Europe.
Professional in Europe
His first regular professional station was in 1999, the club AO Dafni Greek Athens. In the following season he moved to local rivals Marousi, with whom he won the played out by FIBA Europe Saporta Cup, the successor competition of the European Cup Winners' Cup. In 2001 he joined for the first time on Fortitude from Bologna in the Italian Serie A. In March 2002, he joined the Russian Ural Great Perm during the current season. For both clubs, he was active in the United ULEB Euro League, which officially was the successor competition of the European Cup of Champions now. After the end of the season 2001/2002 he returned to France and played in Villeurbanne for the French champions ASVEL, but what the title could not defend in the season 2002/ 03, but Evtimovs former club EB Pau - Orthez was defeated in the finals. He subsequently transferred to the Spanish ACB league to Caja San Fernando Sevilla from. For the first time he stayed for more than one season at a club, but also the second season in the 2004/05 season he played for the Andalusian club does not end, but moved back to Italy in February 2005 to Lottomatica Rome. During his time in Rome cardiac arrhythmias were observed in Evtimov.
After the end of the season he first played in Ljubljana, Slovenia for the local top club and series champion Union Olimpija KK before he moved again to Italy in February 2006 to UPEA from the Sicilian Capo d' Orlando. The following season he again played in Fortitude in Bologna, who contested this season among the sponsors name Climamio and was honored in February 2007 as "Player of the Week" ( Player of the Week ) of the Euro League, although his team was eliminated in the first group stage. Interestingly, at that season be six years younger brother Ilian Evtimov calculated at the local rivals and formerly much more successful club Virtus Bologna active. After leaving Fortitudos in the Euro League Vasco changed hands in February 2007 back to the Spanish ACB league, this time to Valladolid. In the 2006/07 season still narrowly escaped relegation, CB Valladolid but descended upon the 2007/ 08 season.
Then Evtimov was early in the season 2008/ 09 in the short term in his native city of Sofia Levski for active before he was hired in December 2008 for four weeks of Trenkwalder Reggio Emilia in Reggio Emilia in the Italian league second Legadue. Then Evtimov was still active in the Ukrainian Black Sea coast in Juschne. The 2009/10 season he played first again in the Greek League A1 Ethniki in Athens, this time for Panionios. During the season he moved to Proteas AEL Limassol in Cyprus, where he first played together with his younger brother Ilian. For BBL season 2010/11 Vasco finally joined the German Bundesliga, the Ilian was already active from 2007 to 2009 for the Frankfurt Skyliners. After his contract was not renewed for the year 2010/ 11, joined the rest of the season in the first French Pro A league for fusion club Paris - Levallois Basket. With the club he missed the play-offs to the French championship and was able to secure the league with only one win ahead of the first relegated from Vichy.
In the season 2011/12 Evtimov returned to Bulgaria back to Levski Sofia. After they lost the final game of the Balkan International Basketball League just when aligning Israeli Hapoel Gilboa Galil, you could not win the final series in the national championship against Lukoil Akademik and each had to make do with the runner-up. For the following season Evtimov returned to France and playing for the Premiership returnees Cercle Saint- Pierre of Limoges.
National
Evtimov took part in the European Basketball Championship 2001 in Turkey for his adopted home of France. After the victory, the French group selection of the German national team lost in the quarter finals and finished sixth behind Russia. As a result of the double - citizen moved to the Bulgarian Association and was responsible for its selection under the legendary coach Pini Gershon Israeli participants of the European Basketball Championships in Poland in 2009. But the experience of coaches and players Gershon Evtimov did not alter the three losses and the early exit in the first group stage.