Games basketball club Ural. BC "Ural" will save retail space and land plots
Today, February 26, the anniversary is celebrated by the Honored Master of Sports, Honored Coach of Russia, President of MBK Ural Stanislav Eremin. To one of the most outstanding Soviet basketball players, bronze medalist Olympic Games, world champion, two-time European champion, multiple USSR champion as a player and multiple Russian champion as a coach, turned 65 years old.
daily News 11.12.2015Yesterday, December 10, within the framework of the Basketball Super League - First Division, the Temp-SUMZ-UMMC team from Revda beat the leader of the championship, which had not previously lost a single match, Sakhalin, on its home court. Moreover, the Sverdlovsk team, losing 10 points during the match, achieved a sensational victory in the last seconds of the game, when the team’s point guard Anton Glazunov scored the decisive two-point shot - the score became 83:81.
daily News 4.12.2015Yesterday, December 3, basketball club“Ural” on its site within the Super League-1 beat the “Irkut” team from Irkutsk with a score of 80:75. Defender of the Yekaterinburg club Andrey Kuzemkin set a season record in the tournament in the match, scoring almost half of the team’s total points - 39. this moment“Ural” ranks eighth in the standings, with 3 wins and 5 losses.
daily News 23.10.2015Yesterday, October 22, the so-called “Ural Derby” took place in Revda as part of the Russian Super League-1 basketball championship. “Ural” from Yekaterinburg came to visit Temp-SUMZ-UMMC. Matches between Sverdlovsk teams have always been of a principled nature, and the capital’s basketball players have won against the club from Revda over the past two and a half seasons. This time the team from the region turned out to be stronger - 68:61.
daily News15.10.2015
Yesterday, October 14, the Ural basketball club defeated Khimki-Podmoskovye with a score of 72:37 within the Super League-1. According to the team's press service, the guests showed resistance only in the first half of the match, after the break the game went wrong for the Khimki team. In the last quarter, Ural allowed only two points from their opponents, thereby setting a record for their team in reliable defensive play.
daily News 12.10.2015Yesterday, October 11, basketball “Ural” played its first match within the framework of the Russian Basketball Championship Super League - First Division. The Griffins lost in DIVS to the club of the same name from Samara with a score of 60:63. Moreover, the decisive points were scored by Maxim Kiryanov, who played for Ural last season.
daily News 8.09.2015Honored coach and legendary player Stanislav Eremin - about the new economy of Ural, the pyramid and Kirilenko
Professional basketball in Yekaterinburg will be preserved. To avoid a repeat of the events of last season, when the team, due to financial problems, could not finish the championship and cease to exist this year, Stanislav Eremin was invited to the Ural basketball club as president. One of best players in history Soviet basketball, the world and European champion is going to rebuild the team both organizationally and economically. What does the new president of Ural expect from the new president of the RBF, how will the training of Sverdlovsk youth change, will import substitution occur and will sponsors be attracted to the club - read in the interview with Stanislav Eremin.
Society, Society 14.08.2015On Tuesday, August 18, in Yekaterinburg in the conference hall of the Uralochka Sports Palace (block “B”) there will be a meeting with best basketball player Russia Andrey Kirilenko. Fans, basketball officials and journalists are invited to the event, the press service of BC Ural reports.
daily News 7.08.201547-year-old specialist Dmitry Shakulin has been approved for the position of head coach of BC Ural, the club’s press service reports. The contract with former assistant head coach of the Russian national team David Blatt and assistant Ettore Messina at CSKA was concluded for one year.
daily News 30.07.2015Stanislav Eremin, who previously worked for BC Zenit from St. Petersburg and was on the board of trustees of the Yekaterinburg team, was appointed president of the Ural basketball club. This was reported on the website of the St. Petersburg club.
daily News13.05.2015
The Ural basketball club took fourth place in the Russian Super League. Yesterday, May 12, Yekaterinburg basketball players lost in the fourth match of the series for third place to Dynamo Moscow 69:70, allowing them to win bronze.
daily News 29.04.2015Today, April 29, in Vladivostok, BC Ural lost in the fourth match of the semi-final series to local Spartak-Primorye with a score of 82:73. Ekaterinburg basketball players were in the lead during the game, but in the end they lost the victory.
daily News 29.04.2015Yesterday, April 28, in the third match of the semi-final series of the Super League, basketball “Ural” lost to the local “Spartak-Primorye” in Vladivostok with a score of 85:73. As a result, in the series up to three wins the score became 2:1 in favor of the Ekaterinburg team. The next game will also take place in Vladivostok today, April 29, at 14:00 Ural time.
daily News 17.04.2015Yesterday, April 16, the Ural basketball club, thanks to its victory in return match Super League playoffs made it to the semi-finals. The Griffins defeated the Perm PARMA 65:89, Victoria became second in the quarterfinals and allowed the Ekaterinburg basketball players to reach the top four.
daily News 14.04.2015They will go to Kuyvashev and Pasler for help
The Ural basketball club will finish the current season within the Super League. The team faced serious financial problems at the beginning of the tournament. In the basketball community there was talk about the possible loss of the team, which today, no matter what, will fight for first place. The fate of Ural was decided by the board of trustees under the leadership of First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Vlasov. The council made a strong-willed decision not to bury professional basketball in Yekaterinburg. What will happen to funding next season will be determined in May. It is quite possible that Governor Evgeny Kuyvashev and Sverdlovsk Prime Minister Denis Pasler will get involved in solving the problem.
Society, Society 14.04.2015BASKETBALL
Most of the Ural clubs have already started the new season and have begun to fight for the top positions in tournament tables, only basketball players, traditionally, enter the game later than others, for them the season will begin in October. And if in women's basketball UMMC club new season will begin, like all the previous ones - without shocks and fundamental changes in the composition of the team, then the Ural men's basketball club will practically begin its journey anew. After all, for the new season in “Ural” not only the team’s composition was updated 100 percent, but also the club’s management almost completely changed.
Now BC "Ural" with a completely renewed roster is at a pre-season training camp in Lithuania, where it has already won a number of friendly matches and is now playing in the "Golden Autumn" tournament. Among the rivals of the Ekaterinburg team are PSK Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Alytus (Lithuania), Marianpol (Lithuania), Dynamo (Moscow) and University-Yugra (Surgut). Ural will play the first game of the new season in the Russian Championship in Yekaterinburg on October 11 against the Samara-SSEU team.
Let us remind you that at the end of July it became known that the president of BC "Ural" was replaced; he became the honored coach of Russia, world and European champion, Olympic medalist Stanislav Eremin, who was previously a member of the board of trustees. He almost completely changed the administration of the club, leaving him in the role of team director former president"Ural" Anatoly Kontsevoy, who is still on the club's board of trustees. At the beginning of August a new one was appointed Main coach“Ural” - Dmitry Shakulin, who worked from 2009 to 2014 as assistant head coach of PBC CSKA. While the rest of the Super League teams were already in full swing preparing for the new season, BC Ural was just forming a team, therefore, the new squad is dominated by inexperienced, but, according to the club management, promising young people.
In order to understand why BC "Ural" found itself in a situation where everything had to start from scratch, it is worth remembering how it all began.
HISTORY OF THE ISSUE
BC "Ural" was created in 2010 as part of the development program men's basketball, approved by regional authorities. Honored Coach of Russia Anatoly Kontsevoy became the president of the basketball club; the team’s board of trustees included the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Sverdlovsk Region Government Vladimir Vlasov, the Minister of physical culture, sports and youth policy of the Sverdlovsk region Leonid Rapoport, Honored coach of Russia, world and European champion, Olympic medalist, Stanislav Eremin.
Two years earlier, in 2008, Continental appeared in Russia Hockey League, the creation of which was initiated by the then Prime Minister, now President Vladimir Putin. By 2010 KHL Championship gained enviable popularity among the elite and the support of fans, as well as the necessary prestige in the professional environment. In December of the same 2010, Russia for the first time received the right to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Now these events seem to be parallel, but BC Ural will still “stumble” over the priority sports in the country.
Already in the first season, BC Ural completed the task of getting into the top five best teams Super League, finishing fourth in the final rankings. The Griffins played their home matches in the 2010/11 season on training ground Palace Game Types sports "Uralochka", that is, essentially, in a large gym, where several rows of stands were set up for spectators. At first, the unfamiliar team attracted only a few people who wanted to watch basketball; they calmly took their seats. But as the season progressed, the number of spectators, among whom there were real fans, grew to 200-300 people. Such a number of people no longer fit in the hall, people stood at the doors and along the entire perimeter of the site, so in the new season the team gradually moved to main arena DIVSA.
In the 2011/12 season, Ural, under the leadership of Oleg Okulov, for the first time in history became a participant in the Final Four of the Russian Cup and the champion of the men's basketball Super League. Significant contributions to the team's success were made by Semyon Shashkov, Sergei Varlamov, Vitaly Ionov, Maxim Dybovsky and Anton Glazunov, who became one of the best point guards in the Super League. An integral part of the team and the undisputed leaders were foreign players - Serbian Nikola Lepojevic and American Lorenzo Gordon. Another achievement of this season was a sharp increase in the number of spectators at matches - an average of 2,800 people per game. According to this indicator, the Ekaterinburg club took second place among all men's basketball clubs in Russia, behind only the finalist of the VTB United League and the winner of the European Cup, the Krasnodar team "Lokomotiv-Kuban".
BC "Ural" is the champion of the Super League 2011/12. Photo Press service of BC "Ural"
After the end of the “golden season”, for the first time they seriously started talking about the need to increase funding for Ural. The Ekaterinburg team has earned the right to participate in elite division country, but this required a completely different budget, otherwise there was no point in even starting to play at a new level. However, the team no longer had any money. As a result, “Ural” was forced to postpone the promotion, the coaching staff and basketball players of “Ural” came to terms with this and went into battle again with the dream of making it to the VTB League next season.
In the 2012/13 season, Ural was also led by Oleg Okulov; Anton Glazunov, Alimzhan Fedyushin, Vitaly Ionov, Maxim Dybovsky and Dmitry Nikolaev remained on the team from the previous team. In a bitter struggle, Ural defended the championship title, becoming the first team in the history of the Super League to win the tournament twice in a row. Fans remember well that final match with dramatic ending. The Ekaterinburg club fought with the University-Ugra team. BC "Ural", exhausted by injuries and not having a long bench, pulled through that game, beating the opponent with a score of 66:63. Ural coach Oleg Okulov after the final, barely holding back tears, said: “For me personally, this team will enter my heart as a team that fought. Seven of us, six of us, through “I can’t”, through “I don’t want.”
BC "Ural" is the champion of the Super League 2012/13. Photo Press service of BC "Ural"
BC "Ural" once again proved that it is worthy of other investments, and to perform on the same floor with the best clubs countries. Ironically, in the same season, 17 years later, FC Ural made it to the Premier League, and it became clear that all efforts would be directed to supporting the country's priority sport - football. When football club“Ural” still played in the FNL, the team’s budget was about 400 million rubles, and with entry into the Premier League, FC “Ural” received more than 800 million rubles. Funding for the club was increased, including by the government of the Sverdlovsk region.
It would be appropriate to recall here the Ekaterinburg hockey club"Avtomobilist", which is actively supported by the government of the Sverdlovsk region, headed by Governor Evgeny Kuyvashev. The team has been playing in the KHL since 2009, then the hockey players managed to immediately reach the playoffs, but they lost in the first round. Then, for three seasons, Avtomobilist did not reach the playoffs. In the 2013-2014 season, the Yekaterinburg club finally broke this sad pattern, but stopped at the quarterfinals. The same result was achieved last season. And all this with very comfortable financing, when hockey players have the opportunity to focus on the game, forgetting about everyday issues. Only the salary budget of Avtomobilist in the 2013-2014 season, according to the KHL, amounted to more than 350 million rubles. The total budget of BC "Ural" never reached even 100 million rubles.
Minister of Sports and Youth Policy of the Sverdlovsk Region Leonid Rapoport, who is a member of the pop council of BC Ural, answering questions from journalists, stated that the share of budget funds in financing the basketball club is even greater than in the budgets of other professional teams. True, the minister made an important reservation - “in percentage terms,” that is, in the hundreds of millions of rubles of the budgets of FC Ural and HC Avtomobilist, the lion’s share is sponsorship money, and in the case of BC Ural, the opposite is true.
In the 2013/14 season, BC Ural, under the leadership of the same Oleg Okulov, became the main sensation of the European Challenge Cup. In the EuroChallenge, the Ekaterinburg club won two group stage and reached the playoffs, losing only two matches. In the quarterfinal series, the Griffins lost to Triumph. European guests coming to the games in Yekaterinburg each time noted the high level of organization of the matches and the high-quality play of the Ural basketball players. In addition, in the regular season, Ural entered the top three.
In season - 2014/15 BC "Ural" entered with an almost 100 percent updated roster, only Dmitry Flis remained from the previous team. The remaining players went to Super League clubs with better conditions, and Anton Glazunov decided to try his hand at the VTB United League. By some miracle we managed to save coaching staff club. However, at the beginning of the season there were even foreign players on the team - Americans Michael Snaer and Marco Killingsworth, but Snaer left the team in October when he did not receive his salary. BC "Ural" then released the player for the first time without fulfilling its financial obligations. After the new year, Killingsworth also left. It is worth noting that both basketball players did their jobs honestly until the very end.
Due to financial problems, Ural had to significantly reform its roster during the season and refuse to participate in the Russian Cup. By the new year, the question of disbanding the club arose, but in the end this was avoided. Putting up with hardships in the form of delayed salaries, lack of proper medical care, debts for renting the site and for the services of a support group, losing viewers due to the lack of necessary advertising, the club fought for victory in the regular season until the last round. Moreover, BC "Ural" entered the playoffs and fought for bronze medals, but in a difficult five-match series lost to Dynamo Moscow and, given the circumstances, took a more than worthy fourth place.
BC "Ural" was photographed "with an outstretched hand" to draw attention to its problems. Photo Press service of BC "Ural"
The term “team effectiveness” once appeared in the process of distributing the regional budget between Yekaterinburg sports clubs. Perhaps today, when the state counts every penny, a slightly more objective approach to assessing the results and capabilities of teams will again become relevant, and money will not go exclusively to trendy sports.
On the other hand, it is difficult to predict how the Ural bookmaker will behave if a multi-million dollar budget has fallen on it. Perhaps it was the fight against circumstances that always spurred the team on, forced them to play to the limit and show results above expectations. Perhaps, with decent funding in the VTB League, the Ural basketball club will repeat the fate of the football club, which for two seasons was on the verge of relegation from the Premier League.
Tatiana KUZNETSOVA
The unstable economic situation and the inertia of officials have a critical impact on sports. Companies and regions have actually stopped investing in image-loss projects, which in the overwhelming majority are professional sports clubs, and sponsorship is finally becoming voluntary-compulsory under pressure from authorities at all levels. Only clubs whose owners are either oligarchs who have a personal passion for a particular sport, or the authorities of economically stable regions for which big sport- part of social policy. And if the most budget-intensive sports, such as hockey or football, even in a crisis, slightly reduce internal cash flows, then for others, even those historically assigned to regions, the collapse of sponsorship and budget support will be fatal. The professional basketball club "Ural" of Yekaterinburg is on the verge of destruction.
The Sverdlovsk region risks losing professional basketball. Against the backdrop of multi-million dollar investments in the women's European leading club UMMC and the infrastructure controlled by its actual owner Andrei Kozitsyn, and, accordingly, the results, the picture of the region's basketball vertical looks deplorable. The flagship of men's basketball in the Ural Federal District, BC Ural, is on the verge of closure.
Now, when photographs of the club’s players standing with outstretched hands appear in the media, the recent successes of the “griffins”, who twice became champions of the Super League in 2012 and 2013, the second tier of professional basketball in Russia, look paradoxical. The current playing season, it is possible, will be the last in the history of the team, at least in its current form.
For the first time, the difficult financial situation in the team during the current gaming season became known in October 2014. Due to lack of funding, the club had to withdraw from the Russian Cup, and soon participation in the championship was also at risk. Lack of funds did not allow us to go to Alma-Ata, and also forced us to part with the leader, an American. Michael Snaer without fulfilling their financial obligations. Emergency funds were found with the participation of regional authorities. This delayed but did not solve the problem. The general sponsor the “griffins”, as before, are missing. According to the club, a search for him is underway, as evidenced by the invitation to sponsorship, which was posted on the official website a long time ago.
However, investors are not showing enthusiasm. Budgetary injections and small contributions from third-party organizations will allow performances to continue until the end of the season, but there are no guarantees for next year. Sources in the club are reluctant to talk about the dire financial situation, but the fact that it is difficult is confirmed by the fact that Ural had to abandon video broadcasts of matches, a presenter and a mandatory support group. For the absence of cheerleaders during breaks on the court, a fine was imposed on the team, which also did not improve the financial well-being of the team.
Support groups will no longer be seen at Ural matches
“Compared to elite hockey or football, basketball is less expensive type sports. Please understand that there are 16 professional teams in our area. different types sports, and the overwhelming majority of them all need funds from the budget. BC "Ural" receives even more in percentage terms than hockey players or football players. Its budgetary financial component is about 40%, the rest is the money of those who can now provide it. I have no doubt that the team will finish the season. Otherwise, you can ask them for the invested funds back. I cannot predict what will happen next. Although I will say again that basketball is not that expensive. I haven’t seen a photo of the team with outstretched hands,” said Leonid Rapoport, Minister of Sports of the Sverdlovsk Region.
Minister of Sports of the Sverdlovsk Region Leonid Rapoport
At the same time, the regional Ministry of Sports cut the funding limit for the Basketball Federation of the Sverdlovsk Region in 2015 by more than half, putting the public, but at the same time quite influential organization, which also serves as a kind of coordinator between children’s and youth and professional sports, on the brink of survival. The FBSO exists mainly on donations from individuals, as well as investments from its president Viktor Ganienko, part-time owner of the famous chain of shoe stores "Robek". Enthusiasm Ganienko, as well as executive director Andrey Borodaylyuk allows sports structure stay afloat and even hold a considerable number of children's, youth and veterans' tournaments, as well as supervise the work of sports schools.
“Budget funding is now being cut everywhere. And basketball is not the highest priority. We were cut by 56%. Of course, this affects work. We have to rearrange plans. We are not able to help professional clubs. Our task is the development of mass, children's sports, training future masters, holding competitions. Now a promising team of young men born in 2000 has gone all out Russian competitions– we partially helped them and financed them. But, unfortunately, we simply don’t have the money to cover all schools,” said the executive director of the FBSO.
The idea of the actual collapse of regional basketball was developed by the president of the federation - according to Ganienko, the process of entering the pool of club sponsors should be mutually beneficial, only in this case it can be of interest to potential investors.
“As president of the FBSO, I must, first of all, fulfill the tasks of developing mass sports and prepare a sports team for professional teams. Only recently I have invested 10 million of my own funds in organizing tournaments for children’s and youth teams in the region. Understand that sponsors are ready to invest money in professional basketball, and as the owner of a successful trading company, I am too. But this is a mutual process. When a sponsor comes, he must get something in return. We do not demand any tax benefits, but we are interested in expanding opportunities - transferring retail space and land plots for use. Otherwise it is simply unprofitable. On top of that, oddly enough, while heading the FBSO, I’m not even on the club’s board of trustees,” the head of the federation expressed his vision of the situation.
At the moment, contacts between BC Ural and the FBSO are sporadic and limited to the transfer to the regional basketball structure of the club’s children’s team to play in the Children’s and Youth Basketball League. The current roster of the “Gryphons” includes only one local student – Sergei Panin. This state of affairs causes sincere regret among representatives of the FBSO.
The federation also sees a problem in the competition of sports schools, which, according to functionaries, is not always healthy. Apart from the famous school Olympic reserve Youth Sports School No. 3, which gave a lot to Russian basketball famous players, there are other sports facilities. The FBSO tries to support some of them to the best of its ability, even taking into account the “braid” of the Ministry of Sports. The President, in particular, mentioned the basketball school in Asbest, whose students lacked the basics - balls and sports shoes, not to mention money for training camps.
One of these “hot spots” is the confrontation between the leadership of the federation and the A. E. Kandel basketball school, also known as the “Kandel Club”. The editors have a letter from the leaders of the Kandel school with claims to the FBSO and the Ministry of Sports of the Sverdlovsk Region regarding the allocation of funds for away tournaments at the regional and all-Russian level, entitled “It is difficult to communicate with ministers - they look down on everyone.”
Pupils of the school named after. Kandelya
“It’s a paradoxical situation - we have very talented sports teams born in 2000 and 2002, but neither the federation nor the regional Ministry of Sports pays any attention to them. Teams from the Chelyabinsk region, meanwhile, go to training camps, prepare purposefully, and participate in competitions. And with us they want results, but they don’t want to invest in them. We contacted the Ministry of Sports about the 2000 youth team, but they simply ignored us. We are about to participate in international tournament Friendly Cup, qualifying and final Russian competitions, we are in the finals of the Russian championship in five ages, but no attention is paid to us. I note that the Ministry of Sports seems to forget that popular sports are the image of the region, the support of which the governor has repeatedly spoken about Evgeniy Kuyvashev. How to understand this position Rapoport? – the director of the A.E. Kandel Youth Sports School expressed his point of view Vitaly Zoteev.
For comparison, in the Chelyabinsk region, the fact that Governor Boris Dubrovsky set the task that any high-achieving sport should work for the development of mass and children's sports, and asked his deputies to supervise the teams, is already bringing tangible results. For example, the Dynamo basketball club, which Vice-Governor Nikolai Sandakov volunteered to develop, citing internal information from the club, is already 80% provided with the resources of sponsors attracted by the deputy head of the region. More expensive hockey, which was entrusted to be supervised by Deputy Governor Ivan Senichev, is also actively moving away from budget funding and redistributing resources in favor of children's and youth teams of the Traktor HC system.
BC Dynamo Chelyabinsk
In turn, the Ministry of Sports of the Middle Urals considers the claims and requests of the “Kandelevites” to be sent to the wrong address. Head of the regional department Rapoport said that such issues are beyond the competence of sports officials. The FBSO also referred to the current impossibility of providing support to the promising team. However, they brought more weighty and detailed arguments.
“For us, all schools are equal, and we as a federation cannot give preference to some schools to the detriment of others. This also applies to the Kandel school, which has existed for only 3 years, whose only undeniable success is the girls’ participation in the finals of the Russian championship. Moreover, if we had free funds, we would be happy to allocate them. And when they do appear, we have much poorer sports schools in the same Asbest, in the north of the region - Krasnoturinsk, Serov, Karpinsk, Volchansk. In addition, this school itself is under the jurisdiction of the Yekaterinburg Basketball Federation, and it is this school that, first of all, should provide support to its teams,” the FBSO responded to the claims of the “Kandelevites.”
Meanwhile, the school named after A.E. Kandel is not at all eking out a miserable existence. One of the curators of the “Kandel Club” and the school, according to the agency, is the head of the administration of the Ordzhonikidze district of Yekaterinburg, Oleg Lefton, and through his efforts the school is a well-off structure.
The lack of established interaction between various parts of the basketball and, in general, sports hierarchy of the region, professional clubs and the relevant department, “signs of unhealthy competition between schools,” coupled with the sequestration of budgetary allocations, threaten the future of this sport in the Sverdlovsk region. The situation could be partly saved by sponsorship on a mutually beneficial basis, but at the moment there is no basis for it, except for strong-willed decisions of a political nature, and the result will be the disappearance of several more clubs from the basketball horizon of the Ural Federal District.
