By EFE
12 Feb 2024, 11:13 AM EST
17-year-old Ukrainian basketball player Volodymir Yermakov has died in Düsseldorf when he was stabbed this Saturday along with a compatriot who also played on the under-19 team of the ART Giants club in this German city, as explained by the Kiev Basketball Federation in a statement.
“On the eve of their next game the young basketball players were attacked with knives on the street simply for the fact of being Ukrainian,” reads the statement, which explains that the other attacked player, Artem Kozachenko, is in intensive care.
The teammates of the two Ukrainian minors They spent the night in the hospital, where doctors were unable to save Yermakov, according to the source.
The federation note explains that the German Police are investigating the stabbing.
According to Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko, German authorities have arrested a person responsible for the attack. Nikolenko added that the life of the injured Ukrainian is not in danger.
Yermakov was born in 2006 and played with the Ukraine U-16 team in the European Basketball Championship held in Bulgaria in 2022.
The kyiv Basketball Federation has sent its condolences to his parents and has started a collection to send them financial aid through a Ukrainian bank.
The funeral of Dejan Milojevic brings together the world of Serbian basketball in Belgrade
The historic player and coach Dejan Milojevic, died on January 17 in the United States at the age of 46was buried this Monday in a Belgrade cemetery in a ceremony in which great figures from Serbian and American basketball participated.
Milojevic, assistant coach of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, died of a heart attack he suffered while dining with the squad in Salt Lake City, where the team was going to play. He underwent an operation that could not save his life.
In the procession that silently said goodbye to Milojevic at the New Cemetery in Bezanija, In Belgrade, Steve Kerr, coach of the Golden State Warriors, the club’s consultant and former player Zaza Pachulia participated and other representatives of the American team, reports the Blic newspaper portal.
Also present, in addition to the relatives of the deceased, were Serbian coaches and players such as Predrag Danilovic, president of the National Basketball Federation; Zeljko Obradovic, Dejan Tomasevic, Zeljko Rebraca, Vlatko Cancar and Nermanja Bjelica, among others.
In recent weeks, several events to honor Milojevic have been held in Serbia.
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