Ivan Edeshko

Ivan Edeshko is a Soviet basketball player, in whose sports biography there was a place for almost all possible titles and awards. Gold of the Olympic Games and world championships, cups and medals of the European and Soviet Union championships, the title of Master of Sports and Honored Coach - it's amazing, but these achievements were really within the power of one person.

The future basketball star was born on March 25, 1945 in a Belarusian village called Stetski, in the Grodno region. From early childhood, Ivan was drawn to sports. However, Edeshko's first achievements were not related to basketball at all: the boy was seriously fond of boxing. But the first ambitious dreams of a professional ring were not destined to come true.

Once the coach Anatoly Martsinkevich drew attention to the growth of one of the participants in the boxing section. It was this man who instilled in young Ivan a love of basketball and helped to make the first throws into the basket.

Already at the age of 14, Ivan Edeshko, by his own admission, became a sincere basketball fan. Boxing techniques and grips were forgotten, training on the basketball court took the first place. The young man spent literally all his free time in the hall. And after a while, such a selfless love for sports and dedication bore fruit.

Professional basketball began for Ivan Edeshko in 1963. Minsk coach Ivan Panin drew attention to the talented player. It was he who saw in the young man an outstanding defender. Indeed, the tall athlete perfectly defended the ring from opponents' attacks. Later, Ivan revealed himself as a striker: Edeshko masterfully created dangerous moments, skillfully passed the ball and, it seemed, did not lose control over what was happening on the entire site for a second.

Such a competent and mature game could not fail to attract attention. In 1971, Ivan was invited to join the Moscow team of CSKA. At that time, the coach Alexander Gomelsky worked with the team. Under the leadership of Alexander Yakovlevich, Ivan initially had a difficult time: if earlier the athlete boldly improvised, now he had to strictly listen to the instructions of the mentor.

Some time later, Gomelsky and Edeshko adapted to each other. However, years later, Alexander Yakovlevich admitted in an interview that he may have been in vain to restrain the adventurism and riskiness of his ward. Be that as it may, but the class of Ivan Edeshko's game promised the athlete a direct path to the USSR national team. And so it happened.

As part of the national team of the country, Ivan Edeshko immediately began preparations for the main sporting event - the 1972 Munich Olympics. Coach Vladimir Kondrashin worked with the athletes, who later became Ivan's close friend. The last match of these Olympic Games forever entered the history of world basketball as one of the most beautiful, albeit controversial, matches.

The USSR national team and the USA national team met in the final game. The game turned out to be tense: the rivals were not inferior to each other, the leadership was constantly shifting from one team to another. At some point, it already seemed that the Soviet athletes had lost: Alexander Belov missed the ring in the last moments of the match. The score was 49:50 in favor of the Americans.

However, fortune prepared a surprise for spectators and players. It turned out that the scoreboard, which was counting down the time, was malfunctioning, and there were still three seconds left until the end of the match. It is unlikely that at that moment someone seriously believed that during this time it was possible to change something. But miracles happen: it was during these three seconds that Ivan Edeshko managed to give a pass to Alexander Belov, who, with a precise jewelry movement, threw the ball right into the ring. The match ended with a score of 51:50, this time in favor of basketball players from the USSR.

It is noteworthy that Ivan Edeshko himself later emphasized more than once: the “golden pass” (as they later called it to Belov) was not a special merit. According to the basketball player, the hero of the match was definitely Alexander Belov, who, even having made a seemingly fatal mistake, managed not to get lost and brilliantly correct this mistake in three seconds.

Another star of that match is also called Sergey Belov, who, although he did not distinguish himself in the last moments of the game, scored 20 points out of the final 50 for the team. Unfortunately, in the further career of Edeshko the player, there were no other such outstanding matches. Ivan played for several seasons in the Moscow team, then played in the Kiev team SKA.

In 1980, Ivan Edeshko, already an eminent athlete, tried himself in a new capacity: the athlete began to train a growing number of players. Years later, in 1984, Edeshko went to Africa. There, Ivan Ivanovich prepared for the competition the national and military teams of Guinea-Bissau.

In 1987, Edeshko returned to his homeland to become a sports mentor for the Soviet Union national team, as well as CSKA Moscow. Without a doubt, the merits of the army club were largely the fruit of the labors of Ivan Ivanovich. At that time, Edeshko's assistant was Stanislav Eremin, who later also became a talented teacher, replacing Edeshko as head coach of CSKA.

Ivan Edeshko himself in 1993 again signed a contract with a foreign country. This time, the athlete went to Lebanon to coach a local team called Sporting. Through the efforts of Ivan Ivanovich, this club has repeatedly taken first places in the national championships, and also won silver in the Asian Cup. Edeshko fondly recalls the years of work in Lebanon, emphasizing that these years were happy and fruitful for him.

Despite the sincere respect and love of the Lebanese, homesickness took its toll. In 1996, Ivan Ivanovich returned to Russia. Edeshko once again became the mentor of the already native CSKA team, however, this time as a second coach. Stanislav Eremin remained the first.

In 2000, Ivan Edeshko was the mentor of the Irkutsk Shakhtar team for some time, but two years later this club collapsed. Until 2004, Edeshko worked again in Lebanon.

The personal life of Ivan Edeshko was happy. The athlete is married. The chosen one of the basketball player was a woman named Larisa Andreevna. Larisa Edeshko graduated from Moscow State University with a teaching degree.

In the marriage of Ivan Ivanovich, a daughter, Natalia, was born. The girl followed in her father's footsteps, choosing sports as her life path. Natalia became a master of sports in tennis. Ivan Edeshko has two grandchildren - Ivan and Artem.

Now Ivan Ivanovich, due to his advanced age, no longer goes to the site, but he is always ready to give advice to novice athletes. Edeshko likes to spend his free time with his grandchildren in a country house. Also, the man is fond of fishing, likes to listen to the songs of Vladimir Vysotsky and re-read Jack London. In an interview with journalists, Edeshko likes to repeat: 

In 2017, photos of Ivan Edeshko, as well as other heroes of those three seconds - Alexander Belov, Sergey Belov, Zurab Sakandelidze and other members of the national team - reappeared on the pages of news publications. 

This time the reason to remember the brilliant match was the art picture "Moving Up" directed by Anton Megerdichev. Set in 1972, this film has already won a positive response from sports fans and moviegoers. The role of Ivan Edeshko went to the actor Kuzma Saprykin.

1971 - Gold medal of the World Championship 1972 - Gold medal of the Olympic Games 1973 - Bronze medal of the European Championship 1974 - Gold medal of the World Championship 1975 - Silver medal of the European Championship 1976 - Bronze medal of the Olympic Games 1978 - Silver medal of the World Championship 1979 - Gold medal of the European Championship

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