Biography
Andrei Kirilenko is the famous Russian basketball player. Honored Master of Sports. It is one of the most titled athletes of Russia. Even dark-skinned basketball legislators in the United States envy his technical arsenal. In 2015, he was elected president of the Russian Basketball Federation.Childhood and youth
Andrei Gennadievich Kirilenko was born on February 18, 1981 in Izhevsk. All his family is associated with sports. Gennady Kirilenko's father holds the position of coach of the female football team "Spark". Olga Kirilenko's mother - a basketball player, played for clubs "Petrel", Spartak, Skorokhodnik. When Olga snapped Andrei, his father was taken to the army, so God gave birth to his hometown, to his mother in Izhevsk.
Therefore, in fact, Andrei was born in Izhevsk. But all the childhood spent in Leningrad. He also has a younger brother. He was fond of football, but due to the injury of the nasal partition, which did not give it to train in autumn and in the spring, left a professional sport.
Often Andrei attribute relatives with the famous tennis player Maria Kirilenko. But, as it turned out, they are just namesakes. The guys are familiar with each other, but the relatives are not.
In childhood, Kirilenko was swimming, handball, football. Studying in grade 1, the boy went to a sports school, to the basketball section. His coach was Alexey Vasilyev. Soon Andrei realized that he wanted to engage in basketball at a professional level. And already in 1995, he becomes the champion of Russia among the 1981 players.
Sport
At the age of 17, he began playing the Basketball Club "Spartak". Thus, he became the youngest professional player in the history of championships. Coached his Anatoly Steinbok. But he stayed in Spartak for just a year.
In 1998, the basketball player goes to CSKA. Stanislav Eremin invited him to the club. Despite his young age, Andrei immediately showed that he was capable of. In the first game, he dials 25 points for the CSKA. During the time spent in CSKA, Kirilenko becomes champion of Russia, he is recognized as the best player of the championship.
In 2000, Andrei Kirilenko is credited to the national team, this year he together with the team spoke at the Sydney Olympics. True, they managed to reach only the quarterfinal.
Soon Andrei Kirilenko in the Russian national team becomes an absolute leader. The basketball player participates in European Championships in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007. In 2005, becomes the captain of the team. But the most significant game in the national team was the game in Eurobaste-2007 in Spain. They become unconditional leaders of the continent's championship.
Of course, his achievements noticed in America. Soon he began to play for the NBA Club "Utah Jazz." In 2005, Andrei became the best NBA player for the total number of blocks (220), and he also managed to make two trile dubla - in the world of basketball this achievement. For "Utah Jazz", Andrei played until 2011. For the NBA team, he played 680 games.
In July 2008, Kirilenko was honored with the honor of carrying the Russian flag at the opening of the Olympics in Beijing. At the ceremony to the Russian bannamers, all attention was riveted. Athlete has a height of 208 cm, not to notice it was simply impossible.
In 2011, Andrei became a free agent, an athlete signs a three-year contract with CSKA. Under the terms of the contract, in the event of the end of Locut, the basketball player has the right to return to the NBA. Soon he signed a contract with the Basketball Club "Minnesota Timbervulvz". In 2013, Andrei played for Brooklyn Nets. And in 2015, returned to CSKA again. The team became the champion of Russia in a single league VTB.
After that, Kirilenko announced the completion of his sports career. In 2015, he was unanimously elected for the presidency of the Russian Basketball Federation.
What only the nickname for his sports career did not receive Andrei. For example, Dr. "Spartak" called His Alfredo, associating a basketball player with Freddie Kruger, who had big hands with knives, like Kirilenko. In CSKA, his partner on the team of Gundars Wind nicknamed him Joker. According to the wind, there is not enough that he looks like a film of which played Jack Nicholson, and for the team he was a kind of semicircled joker, going out by the seventh - the eighth on the platform.
But the main thing and tightly stuck the nickname Andrei - AK-47. He earned him almost immediately, as he began to play in America. In the US, fans often use player initials, and 47 in the team number he took himself. AK-47 - Avtomat Kalashnikova - how it is impossible to better characterize the Russian basketball player in America.
Personal life
With the wife of Maria Lopadov, he met at the Basketball Future event. Father Mary - World Basketball Champion Andrei shovel. At the time of dating, the girl was in relations with the soloist of the Ivanushki International Group Andrei Grigoriev-Apollonov. Mary older Andrei for 8 years. The family lives in America, in Los Angeles.See you with Kirilenko, Maria built a career of the singer - the girl performed under the pseudonym little. But, having married in 2001, Lopatova recorded the album and decided to leave the stage. By the way, Andrei himself starred in one of her clips.
The couple brings up 4 children: three sons - Fedor, Stepan, Andrei, and the daughter of Sasha, which they have fallen in 2009.
Andrei Kirilenko now
Andrei Kirilenko's basketball player is engaged in charity. In 2003, Kirilenko's Kids found in the United States. And in 2006 the fund began to function in Russia. Kirilenko helps children's homes, sports veterans, sports schools. In 2012, the basketball player passed the whole contract earned with CSKA fee into his charity foundation.
Kirilenko leads "Instagram", lays out photos from games, from working meetings. In an athlete account you can "meet" many famous people - Ivan Urgant, Ronaldinho, Sergey Mazaev, Zemfira and others.
In December 2017, the Kirilenko family had burned the house in Los Angeles. This was announced by his son Fedor in his "Instagram". With a fire, no one has suffered.
Awards and achievements
- 1998 - Silver medalist of world youth games
- 2000 - the best player of the championship of Russia
- 2004 - Member of the Match of All Stars NBA
- 2005 - Leader of the NBA Regular Championship in blocks
- 2007 - Gold Medal of the European Championship in Spain
- 2007 - Fiba Europe player
- 2007 - MVP Eurobasket
- 2011 - Bronze Medal at the European Championships in Lithuania
- 2012 - the best player of the championship of Russia
- 2012 - Player of the Year Fiba Europe
- 2012 - Bronze Medal at the Olympics in London
- 2012 - Best European Basketball Player EuroScar