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Youth Basketball team (born 1985 or younger)
Head Coach Aliaksandr Papkou
Club Director Vladislav Kotsarenko |
| Team Roster
| | Evgeny Grekhov | Dmitri Poleschuk | Valery Handlin
| | Igor Konyushenko | Vitaly Shpakouski | Pavel Aheunin
| | Oleg Sanotski | Evgeny Karpik | Vyacheslav Skidan
| | Yury Mishukov | Oleg Gruzdev | Konstantin Yafremau
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| | »»» U-21 European Qualification Tournament
|  End of July 2003. The team, two coaches, head of the delegation and the referee arrived in Slovenia.
Game 1 - defeat to Greece. The game flew by like a fast forward video replay - the team could hardly get their head round it. The fine-tuned World bronze medal winners' roster dominated throughout to finish with a 40-point advantage.
Game 2 - another defeat. The well-balanced Slovenian side neutralised the team.
Game 3 - win over Switzerland.
Game 4 - defeat. The only thing on everyone's mind before the game was to try and beat Hungary, but what happened was what wasn't meant to be - the team lost.
Game 5 - Belarus were playing Turkey, another World Cup participant. The team had to win by more than 7 points to make it to the final round. We were 5-6 points down after the third quarter, but the Turkish side, exhausted after the clash with Slovenia the day before, let the game slip away. Belarus won by 11 points as a result.
The finals are ahead - we have made ourselves well known now. The team has enough character and desire to succeed in the Chech Republic. Now it's up for us to support them.
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