Valdemaras ChomiÄius
Valdemaras Chomičius ( born May 4, 1959 in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian basketball coach and former Lithuanian- Soviet player. During his days as a point guard, he was 1988 Olympic champion, 1982 World Champion and 1979 and 1983 European champion with the selection of the USSR. After the demise of the USSR In 1992 he was third in the Olympic basketball tournament, and in 1995 vice European champion with the selection of Lithuania. Since his playing days, he works mostly as an assistant coach for clubs in the Russian Super League Russia, currently at UNICS Kazan.
Club career as a player
Chomičius is a graduate of the Sports Academy of Lithuania, he already played in the Youth for Zalgiris Kaunas before 1977 for the first time in the Soviet elite class came into use quickly and was part of the national team. In Zalgiris Kaunas, he belonged to the tribe of so-called 'golden generation of Lithuania " to Arvydas Sabonis, who break the dominance of the Moscow clubs in the 80s and 1984-86 three times in a row the championship of the USSR, and in 1986 was able to win the Intercontinental Cup.
In 1989 he moved to the Spanish club Fórum Valadolid and there began a period of frequent exchange club; 1990/91 Fortitude Bologna, 1991 CAI Zaragoza, 1992/94 he played for several Belgian clubs, before he moved to the then Spanish second division CB Málaga 1994. After two years in Spain, he went as a player assistant coach back to Lithuania in the Lithuanian Basketball League, where he end his active career until 1999.
Club coach
After Chomičius had finally stopped with the active ball game in 1999, his Russian club PFK Ural Great Perm took over as assistant coach under contract; this position he held until the summer of 2003, when the capital club MBK Dynamo Moscow signed him as a head coach, but dismissed him again after two months. He returned to the Assistens coaching job at Ural Great. In 2004 he was, after his former boss Sergei Belov had been dismissed for failure, as Head Coach of Ural Great appointed, but was released again in the same season.
Since then, he is the assistant coach at UNICS Kazan.
International career
His biggest international successes celebrated Chomičius with the selection of the USSR, in which he was appointed in 1979 shortly after his Erstligadebüt. Direct in his first year as a national player, he took as European champion, the first of five European Championship medals for the USSR (Gold 1979, 1985, silver in 1987, bronze in 1983, 1999). In his first World Championships three years later he became world champion; However, because of the Soviet boycott, he missed the 1984 Olympic tournament at the 1988 Games he ran on, however, and became Olympic champion. The EM - Bronze 1989 was his last title for the USSR, 1990, he no longer appeared like all Baltic to the USSR.
But even with the new Lithuanian national team, he was successful: in 1992 won one Olympic Bronze, 1995 Vice European Champion title. After his playing days he was from 2000 to 2006 in addition to his club activities assistant coach and had such share of the Olympic bronze in 2000, and at the European title in 2003.
Valdemaras Chomičius belonged in early 2008 to a circle of 105 basketball players who were nominated by the Euro League Basketball and / or basketball interested, actively fifty major personalities of the sport of basketball in Europe in the period 1958 to 2008, determine and subsequently in May 2008 in Madrid (Spain ) honor can. All nominated players have played a particularly prominent role in the European Cup competitions of FIBA Europe and the Euro League basketball and belonged respectively to the most prominent ' stars' of their national league teams.