1988 Olympic basketball champion Valery Tikhonenko on he remembered the legendary coach Alexander Gomelsky .
On January 18, 2024, Gomelsky would have turned 96 years old.
“He made us believe in ourselves.” That was the most important thing. He knew how to find an approach to everyone, he knew how to find the right words for everyone. How big was it? 158 cm? Well, 160 cm, but his soul was much taller. People 2 meters away don’t have the kind of soul he had,” Tikhonenko said on .
For 18 years, Gomelsky led the USSR national team, which under his leadership became the 1988 Olympic champion, two-time world champion (1967, 1982) and six-time European champion (1963, 1965, 1967 , 1969, 1979, 1981). .
Source : MatchTV
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