He began his career in the Triumph club near Moscow, for whose youth team he began playing in 2008. Since 2010, he played for Triumph-2, in the 2011/12 season he was involved in the games of the main team. In 2011, at the age of 17, he became the MVP of the 25th round of the PBL, scoring 34 points in the match with Dynamo Moscow, receiving a utility factor of 43.
International career
Since 2009, he was involved in the games of the national team different ages(up to 18, 19 and 20 years old). First called in national team for games qualifying round for the 2012 Olympics, which were held in Caracas, Venezuela. At the tournament, he took part in three matches, spent an average of 8.54 minutes on the field, scored 3.3 points, gave 0.7 assists, made 1.7 rebounds, 0.7 steals. Included in the application of the Russian team for the 2012 Olympics in London. According to the results of the Games, the Russian team became the bronze medalist of the Olympics (3rd place). For this achievement, Sergey Karasev, like all his teammates, was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree.
Awards
Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (August 13, 2012) - for a great contribution to development physical culture and sports, high sports achivments at the Games of the XXX Olympiad 2012 in London (Great Britain).
Achievements
As part of the team
Bronze medalist Olympic Games 2012.
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One of the best playmakers in Russia and Europe in the 1990s, who, in addition to excellent average and good long-range shots, was also distinguished by excellent vision of the field, the ability to give a sharp, timely pass, the ability to take over the game and decide the fate of the match; a basketball player who managed to become the champion of Russia as part of three different teams, and the champion of three countries.
He started playing basketball in 1978 at the sports school of the Petrogradsky district of Leningrad. During the first seven school years (thanks to the coach and true teacher Igor Bykov, whom V. Karasev called his "second father") Vasily Karasev received the basics of the basketball profession, developed an enduring love for basketball and an irresistible desire to win - got a start in life.
In 1988, V. Karasev graduated from the Leningrad sports boarding school Olympic reserve No. 1, where he trained with A.I. Steinbock. In the same year, he began to play for the "Kondrashinsky" Leningrad "Spartak" - he made his debut in the match of the USSR championship against the Kaunas "Zalgiris".
For five seasons in the St. Petersburg Spartak, V. Karasev gained experience, confidence, found his game and, together with the team, became a silver medalist last championship USSR (in 1991) and the first champion of Russia (in 1992).
In 1992, Stanislav Eremin, who became the head coach of CSKA Moscow, collected bit by bit new team on old foundations and traditions. Among the "conscripts" in 1993, V. Karasev also came to the team of S. Eremin. With CSKA, in which his point guard talent was fully revealed, V. Karasev (height 193 cm, “combat” weight 93 kg) became the champion of Russia five times, played excellently in the Final Four of the Northern European League (NEBL) and in the Euroleague. “With Stanislav Eremin, with CSKA, the best memories are associated with this time, best years my life,” V. Karasev later recalled.
In 1992, Vasily Karasev joined the first Russian basketball team of the "Selikhov" draft.
However, the success of V. Karasev in the Russian team is associated with a 5-year period (1994–1999) of its leadership by Sergei Belov. It was during these years that V. Karasev twice became the silver medalist of the World Championship, the silver and bronze medalist of the European Championship.
The drama of the events of the 1994 World Championships in Toronto (Canada) and 1998 in Athens (Greece) deserves a separate story.
According to the memoirs of Sergei Belov, a good team gathered in the Russian national team in 1994, quite young, but quite professional and ready for big victories. All the guys had the skill of the "Soviet school" of basketball and an unfulfilled desire to win. The team prepared thoroughly - according to a special program, the implementation of which was given as much time as needed (three and a half months) - and was ready to win.
At the preliminary stage of the championship, the Russians beat very strong teams from Argentina, Canada, Australia, and they beat them in the class. This stage culminated in the semi-finals against Croatia. The opponent was extremely strong: NBA stars - Dino Raja, Toni Kukoch, Stojan Vrankovic, a close-knit and well-played squad - a super team, which Yugoslavia, perhaps, has not yet been equal in strength. Nevertheless, this "miracle team" was defeated by Russia - 66:64.
The next day, having barely burned out the adrenaline gained by the morning in the game with the Croats, psychologically devastated by their brilliant sensational victory, the Russians were not ready either physically or mentally for the final match for the "gold" (scheduled for 15 o'clock on the same day) - such victories do not pass without a trace.
They had to resist a much more powerful than the Croats, the American "Dream Team-2" (DreamTeam-2). Reggie Miller, Alonzo Mourning, Shaquille O'Neal, Shawn Kemp, Dominic Wilkins, Dan Marley, Mark Price - just listing these great basketball names made the hearts of rivals and fans tremble. The strength of this team was such that, without losing a single of the eight matches played, the Americans won against all rivals with a gap of more than 20 points. Against this background, the loss of the Russian team to this team for preliminary stage with a difference of "-17" looked decent. Having shown everything that its players were capable of at that moment, giving the game all the rest of their strength, the Russian team lost the final match - 137:91, but this “silver” was more expensive than other gold. The Russians left Toronto with their heads held high.
At the 1998 World Cup, the Russian team repeated its "silver" success - a result that has not yet been surpassed in recent history domestic basketball. Taking into account the performances of the USSR national team, this was the 10th World Championship in a row, when the Russian team managed to win medals.
In preparation for the 1998 World Cup, the head coach of the Russian national team, Sergei Belov, managed to repeat, almost completely, the format of the training cycle tested 4 years before and retain the "silver" squad of the four-year-old team.
“Games at the tournament were hard, but in agony, “on the teeth”, we won strong-willed victories,” S. Belov recalled, “We beat the Italians, Greeks, Canadians, and in the quarterfinals, the Lithuanians. The semi-final game again turned out to be the culmination of our performance and made a splash - we defeated the US team, if not DreamTeam, but also very strong team. During the match, we had a hard time, the opponent acted exceptionally assertive and aggressive, especially in defense. 2 minutes before the end of playing time, we lost "-10", and these 2 minutes ended already with a score of 10:0 in favor of the Russian team. Sergei Babkov played superbly, scoring 30 points in that game. In the last seconds, with an equal score against the American “fifth” number, our “third” turned out to be Sergey Panov. While the Americans were figuring out who to play with whom, "Pan" made a heroic pass across the entire court under the opponent's backboard and neatly put the ball into the basket - 66:64. Then, after a successful shot, the timer was not stopped, and Zakhar Pashutin, catching the ball and putting it on the floor under the ring, managed to play for time a little. The Americans still managed to put the ball into play and even scored a three-pointer, but ... after the final siren. A few minutes of a valid pause… – and the Greek commissioner of the match showed with a gesture: the ball was not counted. Ours took!
In the final match, the Russian team failed to find the key to the strong Yugoslavs, who did a very good job on the main players of the Russians. As a result - an insulting defeat - 62:64 and only "silver". Nevertheless: “Two “silver” world championships in a row for the Russian team, taking into account the then prevailing situation in world basketball, was a jump above the head, the limit of its capabilities. To some extent, these successes have become a kind of swan song of Soviet basketball, the completion of its glorious history, ”S. Belov noted in his book“ Upward Movement ”.
As part of the Russian national team (from 1992 to August 2005), V. Karasev played more than 100 matches - far from every basketball player has such achievement list. And this experience of the player went into the treasury of the future coach V. Karasev.
In 1996, Vasily Karasev received an invitation to the Turkish BC EFES Pilsen (Istanbul), with which he became the champion of Turkey in 1997, and the next season, as part of the German club ALBA (Berlin), he became the champion of Germany. Further, while playing for BC "Iraklis" (Greece), he gained invaluable experience in European basketball, felt it "from the inside", which, of course, was useful in his further career as a player and coach.
V. Karasev has long understood, accepted and professed the biblical principle “do not make yourself an idol: “Yes, I liked someone's game, but I never wanted to be like someone else. Of the basketball players of his role, Larry Bird would be noted. I liked the way the same Magic Johnson plays, of course, Michael Jordan - it was always interesting to watch him. They were thinking players,” he said.
It was good in Europe, but, as V. Karasev himself noted, “at home it is always played much better and more pleasantly”, and in 2001 he finally returned to Russia. As part of the team of BC "Ural-Great" (Perm), in which she Main coach(still the same!) the legendary Sergei Belov brought together many stars of European and American basketball, V. Karasev twice in a row (in 2001 and 2002) became the champion of Russia.
In all the twists and turns of the next few years of "nomadic life" - in the mineral-water "Lokomotiv", the Moscow-based BC "Khimki", the "oil and gas" BC "Universitet-Yugra" (Surgut), again the BC "Ural Great" (Perm) - V. Karaseva supported by his family: wife Yana, son Sergei and daughter Ksenia.
twenty years professional career players left no secrets for Vasily Karasev in basketball, it's time to realize the gained potential in the “role” of a coach: “During this time, much has changed in Russian basketball, it has become more professional. Now basketball for the players is a job that they earn money from, and that's good. Changes happened naturally, it was not difficult to keep up with them: when you live in constant changes, you don’t notice them,” said V. Karasev.
In 2006, V. Karasev for a long time "donkey" in the Lyubertsy BC "Triumph", where he first acted as a playing coach, helping his older friend and mentor S. Eremin (since 2010 - B. Homicius), and in early 2012 he headed this team as head coach. In the same year, V. Karasev led BC Triumph to third place in the PBL regular season, as well as to third place in the Final Four of the FIBA European Challenge Cup, and was awarded the badge of honor “For services to the city of Lyubertsy”.
Thanks to the game of the highly experienced 39-year-old V. Karasev, the student team of the Moscow State Academy of Physical Culture (MGAFK) reached the superfinal of the championship of the Student Basketball Association of the 2009-2010 season.
In 2010-2011, V. Karasev led the Russian U19 youth team, which for the first time in many years became the bronze medalist of the 2011 World Championship.
In 2013, under the leadership of V. Karasev, the student team of Russia in Kazan for the first time in the history of national basketball (not counting last victory USSR national team in 1985) became the winner World Universiade. Several players from that team then entered the Russian national team. The best point guard of the Universiade then became the 20-year-old son of V. Karasev Sergey. By that time, Sergey Karasev had also played for the main Russian team for several years (since 2009). In 2012 in London, he "managed" to win the Olympic "bronze", and in 2013 he became the ninth Russian basketball player in history, attracted to the US NBA, where he began playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
In August 2013 - a very tense and dramatic year for V. Karasev, not afraid of responsibility and the expected flurry of criticism, he "closed the personnel gap with his chest." At a difficult moment of changing the coaches of the national team and the leadership of the FB of Russia, a month before the start of the European Championship in Slovenia, when it was almost impossible to seriously change something, in the absence of the key players of the national team (A. Kirilenko, V. Khryapa, T. Mozgov and A. Kauna) V. Karasev led the national men's team of Russia. For the first time in eight years, a Russian became the head coach of the national team.
After his appointment, Vasily Karasev said: “I am glad that I was entrusted with the national team. Contrary to the popular opinion in the press that the appointment of a Russian coach damages the reputation of Russian basketball, I believe that Russian coaches their victories have long proved the right to lead their national team. We have not only talented coaches, but also strong promising players with whom we can achieve success.”
Unfortunately, four losses in a row (to Italy, Greece, Sweden and Finland) and a consolation victory over the Turks brought the Russian team only eighth place in the group stage of the European Championship 2013 and the loss of chances for a ticket to the 2014 World Cup. But, as they say, for one beaten they give two unbeaten ...
“It is these guys, I am sure, who will form the backbone of the national team in a couple of years, and the sooner they gain experience, the better,” V. Karasev said. “Playing from aggressive defense to fast attack is normal. This is a system that has already proven its worth. In three weeks - and that's how much we worked on basketball issues at the training camp - it's hard to change the player's mind: the spirit of the winning team is formed over the years. Everything needs to be worked out, and people must perceive coaching ideas. But as we fall and rise, we grow.”
In November 2013, the executive committee Russian Federation of basketball appointed V. Karasev as the head coach of the second Russian national basketball team, the basis of which was the players of the student team, as well as basketball players of the youth team (not older than 20 years old).
Both basketball masters - father and son Karaseva - are active promoters of basketball, they repeatedly gave master classes to young Russian basketball players. Spectators and participants will remember for a long time the “Student Basketball Festival on Red Square” held as part of the 9th TRP Forum. The culmination of the holiday on June 4, 2013 was a match in support of the development of Russian basketball, a match between two teams of basketball players different generations- "Generation Pi" and "Further Together", in which, along with other stars of Russian basketball and business, Vasily Karasev also took part.
“I started playing basketball at the age of seven, and that’s all I lived for. And I will continue to live basketball, in any form,” said the famous basketball fighter and coach Vasily Karasev.
V.N. Karasev - Honored Master of Sports of Russia, World Championship silver medalist (1994, 1998), European Championship silver medalist (1993), European Championship bronze medalist (1997), USSR Championship silver medalist (1991), Russian champion (1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002), silver medalist of the Russian Championship (1993), Turkish champion (1997), German champion (1998), Euroleague Final Four bronze medalist (1996), bronze medalist of the World Youth Championship (2011), bronze winner of the FIBA Challenge Cup (2009, 2011).
Played for the teams: "Spartak" (St. Petersburg) (1989-1993), "CSKA" (Moscow) (1993-1996; 1998-2000), "EFES Pilsen" (Istanbul) (1996-1997), "ALBA" (Berlin) (1997–1998), Iraklis (Greece) (2000–2001), Ural Great (Perm) (2001–2002; 2005–2006), Lokomotiv ( Mineral water) (2002–2003), Khimki (Moscow region) (2003–2005), University-Yugra (Surgut) (2006–2008), Triumph (Lyubertsy) (2008–2009), MGAFC (Moscow) (2009–2010).
Coaching career: head coach of BC Triumph-2 (Lyubertsy) (2009–2010), coach, head coach of BC Triumph (Lyubertsy) (2010–2013), coach of the Russian youth team U19 (2010–2011), head coach of the student team of Russia at the World Universiade-2013, acting head coach of the national team "Russia-1", head coach of the national team "Russia-2" (since August 2013).
He was awarded the medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree, the medal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Everyone who loves basketball is well aware of the name of Vasily Karasev, but Wikipedia, as usual, provides little information about the life path of a wonderful player and coach - except for the list of teams and regalia. We will try to fill this annoying gap.
Vasily Karasev - basketball player
Vasily Nikolaevich Karasev was born in Leningrad on April 14, 1971. In 1978 he started playing basketball in sports school. Later he entered the Leningrad Olympic Reserve School (boarding school), which he graduated in 1988. The development of a talented young man was led by Anatoly Steinbock, an outstanding coach who raised many good athletes.
From childhood, the life principle of Vasily Karasev is to be the first in everything. Achieve victory at any cost! And the young basketball player made progress quickly. Already in 1989, yesterday's schoolboy joined the legendary Leningrad club Spartak, in which he had previously played. As part of Spartak, Karasev was among the last silver medalists in history Soviet Union(1991) and the first champions of Russia (1992). In 1993 he moved to basketball club CSKA.
Karasev's playing role is point guard. Speed and athleticism, masterful dribbling, average height for a basketball player (Vasily Karasev’s height is 193 centimeters, weight is 93 kilograms), and most importantly, the “intellectual” style of play: all these factors made Vasily’s position in sports very significant. It should be noted that Karasev belonged to a happy generation of young basketball players who managed to quickly advance and take responsibility for the success of the team. There were no legionnaires in Russia yet, but many experienced basketball players went abroad. Karasev was able to use the chance and quickly turn around, not only in clubs, but also in the national team. Already at the age of 20 he was called up to the Russian national team.
Vasily Karasev - winner
In the legendary 1994 World Cup, Vasily, together with Russian team conquered silver medal, while the national team defeated many first-class rivals - Canadians, Argentines, Australians, the Croatian star team and lost only to the American "dream team" ("Dream Team", one of the strongest in history).
At the 1998 championship, Karasev turned out to be the leader of the national team - he spent the most time in the game, gave the most assists. Russia was one step away from gold: in the final, we still lost with a minimum score to the Yugoslavs, having defeated the American Dream Team in the semifinals before that. Vasily Karasev entered the top five the best players championship (symbolic team of the world).
There were remarkable achievements in club games as well. For example, in 1996, during a match between CSKA and the strong Greek team Olympiakos, Karasev scored 31 points - a European record.
Then the famous basketball player went abroad. In 1997, the champion of Russia Vasily Karasev also became the champion of Turkey together with the Efes Pilsen club, and in 1998, together with Alba, he also became the champion of Germany. In total, Karasev managed to play in a dozen different clubs.
He played for a very long time and ended his career only at the age of 39. "If I could combine my yesterday's speed with today's wisdom"... - Karasev once said at the end of his playing career.
Vasily Karasev - basketball player's father
The basketball player Karasev has a wife, a former volleyball player - Yana Karaseva, a daughter Ksenia and a son Sergey.
In the family: Vasily Karasev with his wife
Vasily Karasev and his wife turned out to be loving and at the same time ambitious parents. They admit that they have always dreamed of seeing children as athletes. And if the daughter chose a different career, then the son followed in his father's footsteps and has now become famous basketball player Sergei Karasev. The future player was raised quite harshly. For example, the boy learned to swim when he was thrown into the pool without warning (his parents, of course, stood in the wings and controlled the situation).
In 2012, Sergey became the bronze medalist at the Olympics, and since 2013 he has been playing in the NHL - he became the ninth basketball player from Russia in this league in history.
The first mentor of the young athlete was his father, who unexpectedly discovered a “coaching vein” in himself. This had important implications.
Vasily Karasev - coaching career
Having connected with basketball all his life, Karasev, of course, did not want to leave the sport at the age of 39. After two decades of playing career, he knew everything about basketball and was eager to put this knowledge into practice. In 2009-2010, he coached the Triumph-2 team, and in 2010 he took on the Russian youth team, which won bronze at the World Championship the very next year. At the same time, he led the student team, which in 2013 won the Universiade - for the first time in Russian history. In this tournament, under the leadership of the father, the son also performed.
I succeeded and club career: Since 2014, Karasev has been the head of Zenit basketball. In 2016, this club became the finalist of the Russian Cup. According to the results of the VTB United League championship, Vasily Karasev was recognized as the best coach.
The only major coaching failure was with the national team. Vasily Karasev took over the leadership of the team at a very difficult moment (2013): there were no strong players, and only a few weeks remained before the start of the European Championship. In such conditions, it was very difficult to do something, and as a result, the team did not even make it out of the group, showing a very low result.
