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OFFICER AND GENTLEMAN
In 1991, FIBA published the results of a survey of their own about the best player in the history of FIBA basketball. The name at the top of the list was Sergei Belov, the great captain of CSKA Moscow and the USSR national team. Today, the result would probably be different, but nobody can deny that Belov is among our sport’s greatest ever. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield recognized this fact by inducting Belov in 1992 as the first European player ever to be included there.
I had double luck: first I followed him as a player from 1967, the year of his debut with USSR at the World Championships in Uruguay, until he retired after the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. I saw him in his most glorious moment, as the last carrier of the Olympic flame to light the torch at Lenin Stadium in Moscow, and also in his last games with the national team. After that, I met Belov as a head coach. We have spoken many times, but never like he did during EuroBasket 2007 in Madrid, where he gave me an interview for EuroLeague.net that caught many people’s attention all over Europe.
FROM DIFFICULT CHILDHOOD TO GLORY
Sergei Alekandrovich Belov was born on January 23, 1944, in the village of Nashekovic, region of Tomsk. Before giving birth to Sergei, his mother survived the famous siege of Stalingrad with her elder brother. The father, an engineer, worked far from home and the family got back together in 1947. The gift for the small child was a football, something scarce and valuable at that time. Sergei wouldn’t part with his favorite toy. He was a goalkeeper, but he also was into athletics, specifically the high jump. However, his quick growth to 1.90 meters decided his future. He started to play basketball and didn’t stop until the end of a brilliant career. His first coach was Georgiy Josifovitch Res. In the summer of 1964, while in Moscow to study, Belov was seen by Aleksandar Kandel, the coach of Uralmash in the city of Sverdlovsk, and he balled Belov for shis time. The promising teenager accepted and in 1964-65 season debuted in the Soviet first division. In the summer of 1966, Belov made his debut with the USSR national team and in 1967 he was already a world champion in Uruguay with an average of 4.6 points. He scored a total of 32 points in the tourney, with a high of 11 against Japan.
In 1968, another key moment in Belov’s life took place – he signed for CSKA Moscow. For the following 12 years, he would be the best player of the Red Army team under colonel Alexander Gomeskiy on the bench. Belov, like other players, was also an officer in the army, even though his only profession was playing basketball. In 1969, Barcelona, he won his first European crown against Real Madrid. In an unforgettable game that CSKA won after double over time (103-93), with big man Vladimir Andreev as the main star, getting 37 points and 11 rebounds. Both Belov and Andreev played the entire 50 minutes. Belov finished with 19 points and 10 rebounds. The following year CSKA lost the final in Sarajevo against Ignis Varese 79-74 with 21 points by Belov. However, in 1971, the Red Army team won the title back after beating Varese in Antwerp 67-53. Belov scored 24 points, but he also acted as a coach due to some problems for Gomelskiy at the Russian border.
In 1973, he played his last final with CSKA, of course against Varese, and lost in Liege 71-66 despite scoring 34 points.
THREE SECONDS IN MUNICH, 1972
Sergei Belov was a player ahead of his time. He was a shooting guard, but also capable of playing point guard or small forward. Just like Dragan Kicanovic, Mirza Delibasic, Manuel Raga, Bob Morse, Walter Szczerbiak and other shooters from the ear, they had to play without three-pointers, which were introduced by FIBA during the 1984-85 season. He was unstoppable in one-on-one situations and after the dribble; you could count on an assist or precise shot, many times with only one hand. He was also a great rebounder, but his best quality was his cold bblood, his 100 percent concentration in crunch time. His teammates always looked for Belov for the last play or the last shot. He was leader who transmitted security and confidence to the rest of the players and true fear to some rivals. He was player respected by all, because of his qualities and his behavior. He was a true officer and gentleman.
With the USSR he won 18 medals: Four Olympic medals (gold in 1972, bonze in 1968, 1976 amd 1980); six in World Championships (two golds -1967 and 1974 –three silvers and one bronze); eight at European Championships (four golds, two silvers and two bronzes). In total he won seven gold medals, five silvers and six brozens in the most important international compititions. His only Olympic gold was from Munich against the USA in what was a famous final because of the last three seconds were repeated under the orders of William Jones, then the secretary general FIBA. In September 2007, Belov told me the story of the most famous three seconds in basketball history:
“Jones’s decision was totally fair and correct to me. See, when Dough Collins scored to put his team ahead, 50-49, there were three seconds left and the scoreboard showed 19:57. Ivan Edeshko put the ball into play and I was close to midcourt, the table was behind my back. I got the ball and right away, the horn from the table stopped the game. But it was not the end, there was a mistake because the clock showed 19:59. There was one second left, but we protested a lot because it was clearly a mistake. The time had to start running when I touched the ball and not when Edeshko threw it in. After what to us seemed a never-ending moment, Jones lifted his three fingers and said we had to repeat them. The rest is well known. This time Edeshko made a long pass to Sasha Belov, who faked between two Americans, who in turn jumped at the same time almost clashing one against the other, and he scored the basket that was worth a gold medal.”
DISAPPOINTMENT AT HOME, 1980
If his most glorious moment was that 1972 gold at the Olympics in Munich, I am sure that his biggest disappointment was the Olympic Games played in Moscow in 1980. Playing at home, the USSR lost first to Italy in the group stage and later against Yugoslavia after over time, and so missed the title game. Some days later, he received an offer that was, in fact, an order:
“I got a call from the USSR Sports Minister, Sergei Pavlov, and he literally said, ‘From this moment, you are the USSR national team coach.’ And I rejected it on the spot. The minister insisted and he repeated his offer constantly. Gomelskiy found out about the issue and, through his connections, he made it that the KGB wouldn’t allow me to leave the country for several years…I was an officer in the Soviet army and it was easy to do that. Those were the worst years of my life and now I can say that for five years I even feared for my life!”
The darkest period in his life also coincided with the comeback from Brazil of a USSR emigrant, a friend of his. Sergei greeted him at home and this was a suspicious act for what he called “the usual services”. His problem lasted until 1988, when he returned to CSKA as a coach. In 1990, he coached Italy and in 1993 he was back in Russia, where he became president of the Russian Federation until 2000. He was also the national team coach for the World Championships of Toronto in 1994 and Athens in 1998, where Russia won silver medals and also for the 1997 EuroBasket in Barcelona, where it won the bronze. From 1999, Belov joined Sergei Kushchenko as general manager and president, respectively, to build a great team in Perm, Ural Great. Their team broke the dominance of CSKA Moscow, won domestic titles and played the new Euroleague in 2001-02 as the first Russian tema in the competition. Belov lived in Perm until he passed away in 2013 at age 69.
He never had doubts that he, as well as other talents of his generation like Kresimir Cosic, Drazen Dalipagic or Dran Kicanovic, could have played and triumphed in the NBA, just like Arvyads Sabonis did, getting there at 31, or Pau Gasol, Tony Parker, Dirk Nowitzki, Vlade Divac and so many other Europeans who showed that good basketball and good players are not an American-only privilege.
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军官和绅士
1991年，国际篮联公布了他们自己关于国际篮联篮球史上最佳球员的调查结果。名列榜首的是谢尔盖-贝洛夫，他是莫斯科中央陆军和苏联国家队的伟大队长。今天，结果可能会有所不同，但没人能否认贝洛夫是我们这项运动有史以来最伟大的球员之一。斯普林菲尔德的奈史密斯篮球名人堂承认了这一事实，于1992年将贝洛夫纳入其中，成为有史以来第一位被纳入其中的欧洲球员。
我有双重运气：首先，我从1967年，即他在乌拉圭世锦赛上首次代表苏联队出场的那一年起就一直关注他，直到他在1980年莫斯科奥运会后退役。我看到了他最辉煌的时刻，作为奥运圣火的最后携带者在莫斯科的列宁体育场点燃火炬，也看到了他在国家队的最后一场比赛。在那之后，我遇到了作为主教练的贝洛夫。我们谈过很多次，但从未像他在2007年马德里欧洲篮球赛期间那样，他在那里接受了EuroLeague.net的采访，引起了全欧洲许多人的注意。
从艰难的童年到辉煌
谢尔盖-亚历山大罗维奇-别洛夫于1944年1月23日出生在托木斯克地区的纳舍科维奇村。在生下谢尔盖之前，他的母亲和她的哥哥在著名的斯大林格勒围攻战中幸存下来。父亲是一名工程师，在远离家乡的地方工作，1947年全家团聚。给小孩子的礼物是一个足球，这在当时是稀缺而宝贵的东西。谢尔盖不愿意放弃他最喜欢的玩具。他是一名守门员，但他也喜欢田径运动，特别是跳高。然而，他迅速长到1.90米的成绩决定了他的未来。他开始打篮球，直到辉煌的职业生涯结束也没有停止。1964年夏天，贝洛夫在莫斯科学习时，被斯维尔德洛夫斯克市乌拉尔马什队的教练亚历山大-坎德尔看中，他向贝洛夫发出了球。这位有前途的少年接受了，并在1964-65赛季在苏联甲级联赛中首次亮相。1966年夏天，贝洛夫首次进入苏联国家队，1967年他已经在乌拉圭以平均4.6分的成绩成为世界冠军。他在巡回赛中总共得到了32分，对日本队的比赛中最高得到了11分。
1968年，贝洛夫生命中的另一个关键时刻发生了–他签约莫斯科中央陆军队。在接下来的12年里，他将成为亚历山大-戈麦斯基上校手下的红军队伍中最好的球员，担任替补。贝洛夫和其他球员一样，也是军队中的一名军官，尽管他唯一的职业是打篮球。1969年，巴塞罗那，他对皇家马德里赢得了他的第一个欧洲冠军。在一场令人难忘的比赛中，CSKA经过双倍时间（103-93）获胜，大个子弗拉基米尔-安德烈夫是主要的明星，得到37分和11个篮板。贝洛夫和安德烈夫都打满了50分钟。贝洛夫拿下了19分和10个篮板。第二年CSKA在萨拉热窝的决赛中以79-74不敌Ignis Varese，贝洛夫得到21分。然而，在1971年，红军队在安特卫普以67-53击败瓦雷泽后重新赢得冠军。贝洛夫得到了24分，但由于戈麦斯基在俄罗斯边境的一些问题，他也充当了教练。
1973年，他与CSKA进行了最后一次决赛，当然是对阵瓦雷泽，尽管得到了34分，但还是在列日以71-66输掉了比赛。
1972年在慕尼黑的三秒钟
谢尔盖-贝洛夫是一个领先于他的时代的球员。他是一名投篮后卫，但也有能力打得分后卫或小前锋。就像Dragan Kicanovic、Mirza Delibasic、Manuel Raga、Bob Morse、Walter Szczerbiak和其他耳濡目染的射手一样，他们不得不在没有三分球的情况下打球，三分球是国际篮联在1984-85赛季推出的。他在一对一的情况下和运球后是不可阻挡的；你可以指望一个助攻或精确的投篮，很多时候只用一只手。他也是一个伟大的篮板手，但他最好的品质是他的冷血，他在关键时刻百分之百的专注。他的队友们总是寻找贝洛夫来完成最后一击或最后一投。他是一个领导者，向其他球员传递安全感和信心，向一些对手传递真正的恐惧。他是受所有人尊重的球员，因为他的品质和行为。他是一位真正的军官和绅士。
他为苏联赢得了18枚奖牌。四枚奥运奖牌（1972年金牌，1968年、1976年和1980年铜牌）；六次世界锦标赛（1967年和1974年两枚金牌，三枚银牌和一枚铜牌）；八次欧洲锦标赛（四枚金牌，两枚银牌和两枚铜牌）。在最重要的国际比赛中，他总共赢得了七枚金牌、五枚银牌和六枚铜牌。他唯一的一块奥运金牌是在慕尼黑对阵美国的比赛中获得的，那是一场著名的决赛，因为最后三秒是在当时国际篮联秘书长威廉-琼斯的命令下重复的。2007年9月，贝洛夫向我讲述了篮球史上最著名的三秒钟的故事。
“琼斯的决定对我来说是完全公平和正确的。你看，当道夫-科林斯得分使他的球队以50-49领先时，还剩下3秒钟，记分牌显示为19：57。伊万-埃德什科将球投入比赛，我当时靠近中场，桌子在我背后。我拿到了球，马上，桌子上的喇叭停止了比赛。但这并不是结束，有一个错误，因为时钟显示为19:59。当时还剩一秒，但我们提出了很多抗议，因为这显然是个错误。时间必须从我触球时开始计算，而不是从埃德什科投球时开始。在对我们来说似乎永无止境的时刻之后，琼斯抬起他的三个手指，说我们必须重复。接下来的事情就众所周知了。这次埃德什科长传给萨沙-贝洛夫，他在两个美国人之间假动作，而这两个美国人又同时起跳，几乎将一个人撞到另一个人身上，他的上篮得分，这才有了一枚金牌。”
失望的主场，1980年
如果说他最辉煌的时刻是1972年在慕尼黑奥运会上的那块金牌，我相信他最大的失望是1980年在莫斯科举行的奥运会。在主场作战，苏联队先是在小组赛中输给了意大利队，后来又在超时后输给了南斯拉夫队，因此错过了冠军赛。几天后，他收到了一份报价，实际上是一份命令。
“我接到了苏联体育部长谢尔盖-帕夫洛夫的电话，他真的说，’从这一刻起，你就是苏联国家队的教练。而我当场就拒绝了。部长坚持，他不断重复他的提议。戈麦斯基发现了这个问题，通过他的关系，他使克格勃在几年内不允许我离开这个国家……我是苏联军队的一名军官，这很容易做到。那是我生命中最糟糕的几年，现在我可以说，有五年时间我甚至担心自己的生命！”
他生命中最黑暗的时期也恰好是一位苏联移民从巴西复出的时候，他的一个朋友。谢尔盖在家里迎接了他，这对他所谓的 “通常的服务 “来说是一个可疑的行为。他的问题一直持续到1988年，当时他回到了CSKA作为一名教练。1990年，他执教意大利，1993年他回到了俄罗斯，在那里他成为俄罗斯联邦的主席，直到2000年。他也是1994年多伦多和1998年雅典世界锦标赛的国家队教练，俄罗斯在那里获得了银牌，也是1997年巴塞罗那欧洲篮球赛的教练，在那里获得了铜牌。从1999年开始，贝洛夫与谢尔盖-库申科一起分别担任总经理和总裁，在乌拉尔大区的彼尔姆建立了一支伟大的球队。他们的球队打破了莫斯科中央陆军队的统治地位，赢得了国内冠军，并在2001-02年作为俄罗斯的第一支球队参加了新的欧洲联赛的比赛。贝洛夫住在彼尔姆，直到2013年69岁时去世。
他从来没有怀疑过自己，以及他那一代的其他人才，如Kresimir Cosic、Drazen Dalipagic或Dran Kicanovic，可以在NBA打球并取得胜利，就像Arvyads Sabonis那样，31岁就进入了NBA，或者Pau Gasol、Tony Parker、Dirk Nowitzki、Vlade Divac和其他许多欧洲人，他们表明好篮球和好球员不是只有美国人才有的。
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