The most notable basketball players of the ESBA Championship will step on the court of Gloria Sports Arena for the ESBA All-Star Game on Sunday evening. Following the opening ceremony of the championship, twenty-four chosen players will finish the first competitive day of action with a more fun-oriented event.<\/p>\n
The ESBA All-Star Game, which is becoming a traditional feat of ESBA events, will divvy up participants into two teams \u2014 Team A and Team B \u2014 which will consist of nine male and three female players each.<\/p>\n
Alzhan Zharmukhamedov and Victor Petrakov, two CSKA veterans, will headline the roster of Team A, with extensive top-level experience. Zharmukhamedov has won a gold medal in the 1972 Olympics, claiming bronze in 1976. He is also a three-time European champion and won silver in the 1978 World Championship.<\/p>\n
Petrakov, meanwhile, has won the USSR championship with CSKA ten times in the seventies and eighties and won silver in the 1977 European championship.<\/p>\n
Other notable names include Vera Filatova, Arunas Palsis, Vitaliy Detiuk and others.<\/p>\n
Three-time Olympic bronze-medalist with the Lithuanian national team, Gintaras Einikis will perhaps be the most titled player for Team B. His countryman and longtime Zalgiris player Vitoldas Masalskis has<\/p>\n
Sergey Ivanov become the World vice-champion with the Russian national team in 1994.<\/p>\n
The game will be refereed by an experienced crew of Romualdas Brazauskas, Lahdo Sharro, Buluc Yalcin.<\/p>\n
Roster of Team A: <\/strong>Banu Karadagli, Arunas Palsis, Rinard Urazmanov, Vera Filatova, Alla Krychenko, Uldis Bruns, Rolandas Penikas, Vitaliy Detiuk, Victor Petrakov, Petr Afanasyev, Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, Sergey Ivanov.<\/p>\n Coaches: Marko Macura (HC), Todor Kovachev, Ulli Ruez<\/p>\n Roster of Team B:<\/strong> Vitoldas Masalskis, Petko Stamatov, Egils Pans, Natalia Alekseeva, Valeria Sholohova, Pavlo Storozhenko, Ralf-Uwe Weule, Aleksandr Bobylev, Hakki Ziya Nazmi Pars, Natallia Uyanik, Gintaras Einikis, Aleksei Ugriumov.<\/p>\n Coaches: Umberg Piasevoli (HC), Zita Kuzminskiene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The most notable basketball players of the ESBA Championship will step on the court of Gloria Sports Arena for the ESBA All-Star Game on Sunday evening. Following the opening ceremony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/antalya-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}