Vitaly Fridzon
Vitaly Valeryevich Fridson (Russian Виталий Валерьевич Фридзон; born 14 October 1985 in Klintsy, RSFSR ) is a Russian professional basketball player. Fridson joined in 2004 as a nearly 19 -year-old to BK Khimki in the Moscow Oblast and has been with this club Russian Cup winner in 2008 and winner of the Eastern European VTB United League in 2011. With the Russian national team came at the 2011 European Basketball Championships bronze medal.
Club career
As a nearly 19 -year-old joined the junior national team Fridson from BK standard of Togliatti in the Moscow suburb of Khimki basketball club based there for. In his first season he lost with this club the series for third place in the Russian championship against UNICS Kazan. In the quarter-final series of the FIBA Europe League could defeat this enemy, but then lost in the Final Four tournament in Istanbul in the semifinals against eventual champions BK Dynamo Saint Petersburg. In the match for third place could beat hosts Fenerbahce. Youth international Fridson was not used at that season in the FIBA Europe League, but nevertheless invoke after winning the European Junior Championship in 2005 in the final squad of the Russian national team for the Eurobasket 2005. In the following season Fridson was then already in the FIBA EuroCup now competition mentioned an important substitute of the Bank approach with a short operating time per game. This time won Khimki, who had in the meantime also reinforced with the German national team Ademola Okulaja, the semi-final against Dynamo from Saint Petersburg at the Final Four tournament in Kiev. In the finals, you can clearly defeated then but the Spanish club Joventut de Badalona. Also in the semifinal series of the Russian Championship could defeat Dynamo Saint Petersburg and lost the final series of the championship in 2006 without their own victory over series champion and ULEB Euro League winners PBK CSKA Moscow, where they were narrowly defeated in the Russian Cup competition in the final.
In the season 2006/ 07 we went to the ULEB Cup and reached the second round, where they lost in each round-trip game KK Crvena Zvezda. In the Russian Cup they reached the third place this time. In the ULEB Cup in 2007 /08 could defeat the German club Cologne 99ers each clearly in two games in the Round of, ended up being a chance in the second round against the eventual champions Joventut Badalona. In the final series of the Russian Championship it was also without a win against champions CSKA Moscow, but this time it could win the Russian Cup competition with a 85:67 - Final victory over CSKA. In the following three years we reached the final series of the Russian Championship, in which each one was inferior to the dominant series champion. The newly titled Eurocup 2008/ 09 they reached the final after quarter and semi-finals could defeat each Spanish teams under the new coming from Italy national team coach Sergio Scariolo Spain in the " Elite Eight " tournament in Turin. In the final itself they lost the Lithuanian club Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius. After the successes in Cup and European Cup you could compete in the 2009/10 season in the highest European League ULEB Euro League. Here one difference in the second group stage of the sixteen best teams from almost against the Spanish club Caja Laboral. In the ULEB Euro League 2010/11 is different from the other hand, in the first group stage. Once in March 2011 had Rimas Kurtinaitis, 2009 or coach of Lietuvos Rytas Final winner in the ULEB Cup, took over the coaching reins, they won on his second discharge the VTB United League 2011 almost in the final against CSKA Moscow. Fridson, in the semi-finals top scorer and rebounder in the final prime was named Most Valuable Player of the VTB- Final Four. After nine years at Khimki Fridzon signed in the summer of 2013 at CSKA Moscow.
National
After winning the U20 European Junior Championships 2005 Fridson was appointed in the final squad of the European Basketball Championships 2005, Men. Russia lost in the quarterfinals to eventual champions Greece and Fridson particular got use time in the two games in the placement round, but both were lost, so that they finished in eighth place at the end and was not qualified for the World Basketball Championship in 2006. For the 2007 European Championships Fridson has been deleted as one of the final two players of coach David Leaf from the final squad, with the result that Fridson on the surprising title of the Russians was not involved with the final win against hosts Spain. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Fridson was a member of the final squad again, but was only a preliminary round victory used in the disappointing performance of the Russians only slightly. In the following EURO 2009 Fridson was an integral part of the rotation of the player used. However, it became the title holder with the opening game again in the first round only once and lost against a young German national basketball team. Nevertheless, it was enough to move into the second round, in which they won all the games, but lost in the quarterfinals to eventual finalists Serbia and ultimately reached the seventh place. In the match for seventh place against Turkey Fridson offered his strongest tournament performance and had 26 points in 35 minutes operating time top scorer of his team. In the 2010 World Cup one suffered his only defeat in the first round against host Turkey, but then retired in the quarterfinals against eventual champions United States out of the medals from. Fridson again offered his best tournament performance with 18 points in the victory in the last game for seventh place. At the 2011 European Championships they won even to the semi-finals all games, including a rematch against Serbia in the quarterfinals. There then one but lost to France and was able to come up with a victory in the match for third place on the surprise team of the tournament Macedonia secure the bronze medal. At the Olympic Games in 2012 Fridson won with the Russian national team by a 81:77 victory against Argentina the bronze medal. This Fridzon contributed significantly to secure help the scarce success with 4 points in the last minute.
Awards and achievements
- 2008 Russian Cup winner
- 2011 Winner VTB United League
- 2011 MVP of the Final Four series VTB United League
- ULEB Eurocup 2012 winner
- 2012 bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in London