Vasily Karasev

Russian professional basketball player and coach
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroRussian professional basketball player and coach
PlacesRussia
isAthlete Football player Association football player Basketball player Sports coach Basketball coach
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth14 April 1971, Saint Petersburg, Tsardom of Russia
Age53 years
Star signAries
Stats
Height:193 cm
Weight:93 kg
Sports Teams
Universitet Yugra Surgut
Alba Berlin
BC Kondrashin Belov
BC Khimki
PBC Ural Great Perm
B.C. Zenit Saint Petersburg
PBC CSKA Moscow
Anadolu Efes S.K.
Iraklis Thessaloniki B.C.
Lokomotiv Kuban
The details

Biography

Vasily Nikolayevich Karasev (Russian: Василий Николаевич Карасев; born April 14, 1971) is a Russian former professional basketball player and coach. He was most recently the head coach of Zenit Saint Petersburg.

Professional playing career

For several years, Karasev was the starting point guard of the Russian League club CSKA Moscow, in the EuroLeague. He also led CSKA to the 1996 EuroLeague Final Four, where he was named to the EuroLeague All-Final Four Team. He was selected to the FIBA EuroStars team in the years 1997, 1998, and 1999. He is widely considered to have been one of the best European point guards of the 1990s.

National team playing career

Karasev was the starting point guard of the senior men's Russian national basketball team, between 1993 and 2003. With Russia's senior national team, Karasev won two EuroBasket medals, the silver medal at the EuroBasket 1993 and the bronze medal at the EuroBasket 1997. He also won two FIBA World Cup silver medals, one at the 1994 FIBA World Championship, and one at the 1998 FIBA World Championship.

At the 1998 FIBA World Championship, he was selected to the All-Tournament Team.

Coaching career

After he retired from playing professional basketball, Karasev began working as a basketball coach. He became the head coach of Triumph Lyubertsy (later renamed to Zenit St. Petersburg), in 2012.

Personal life

Vasily is the father of Sergey Karasev. Sergey has been a senior Russian national basketball team player, and has played with the pro clubs Triumph Lyubertsy, Canton Charge, Cleveland Cavaliers and Brooklyn Nets (NBA), and Zenit Saint Petersburg.

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