Armenak Alachachian
Armenak Alachachian | |
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Occupation(s) | Basketball player, coach |
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Men's Basketball | ||
Representing the Soviet Union | ||
Summer Olympic Games | ||
Tokyo 1964 | National Team | |
FIBA EuroBasket | ||
USSR 1953 | National Team | |
Yugoslavia 1961 | National Team | |
Poland 1963 | National Team | |
USSR 1965 | National Team |
Armenak Alachachian (alternate spellings: Armenak Alajajian or Alatchatchan) (Armenian: Արմենակ Միսակի Ալաջաջյան, December 25, 1930 – December 4, 2017) was an Armenian-Soviet basketball player and coach. A point guard, he reached European stardom with CSKA Moscow and the senior men's Soviet Union national team. He was the first person to ever win a EuroLeague title as both a player and a coach.
Club career[edit]
Alachachian helped CSKA lift its first EuroLeague title in 1961. He added a second title in 1963, and reached another final in 1965, before retiring.
Soviet National Team[edit]
As a player of the senior men's Soviet national team, Alachachian won four gold medals at the 1953, 1961, 1963, and 1965 EuroBasket, as well as a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games.
Coaching career[edit]
Aleksandar Gomelsky, at the time CSKA's sports director, assigned him at the coach position in the late 1960s, and Alachachian led the Reds to the 1969 Euroleague title, thus becoming the first man to lift the trophy, as both a player and a coach.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- FIBA Profile "Armenak Alachachian"
- FIBA Profile "Armenak Alatchatchan"
- Fibaeurope.com Profile
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Armenak Alachachian". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- Euroleague.net - Player nominees for Euroleague's 50 Greatest Contributors
- Armenak Alachachian's obituary
- 1930 births
- 2017 deaths
- Armenian men's basketball players
- Basketball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Egyptian people of Armenian descent
- Egyptian emigrants to the Soviet Union
- EuroLeague-winning coaches
- FIBA EuroBasket-winning players
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic basketball players for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in basketball
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- PBC CSKA Moscow coaches
- Point guards
- Soviet Armenians
- Soviet men's basketball players
- Basketball players from Alexandria
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
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