Sweet Cup

Spartak took the Kondrashin and Belov's Cup. These 2 days the tournament dedicated to the memory of the famous coach Vladimir Kondrashin and center Alexander Belov took place in St.Petersburg. It's traditional competition which is held in our city in the beginning of the season. Now the tournament is in 18th time.
Spartak took it's home Cup for the first time since 2002.
Our team beat Greek Aris in the semifinal - 68:39 and beat Polish Prokom in the final - 77:65. Valery Likhodey didn't play in the final because of leg injury. Vladimir Dragicevic got injury of leg in the first quater of the match. Viktor Keiru is now recovering after leg operation and will start season in some weeks.
"It was good сheck for our team. Sometimes we played good, sometimes not. We are new team and we need games for building the team. These games were necessary for us", the head coach of BC Spartak Jurij Zdovc said.

The player of Spartak Patrick Beverley became the MVP of the tournament. Jurij Zdovc got the prize of Vladimir Kondrashin who was the coach of USSR team and Spartak. One more Spartak's player Lucas Mavrokefalidis got the prize of Alexander Belov as the best center. We remind that Be;ov was the player of USSR team and Spartak in 1970-s.

Alexander Belov and Vladimir Kondrashin are the big part of BC Spartak's history.