February 5, 2011 : Russian cup, third place...

After the new year's day, there are so many events in my life as a basketball!... Entire month of January was on the road, this month our team has played one home game, other games were out

In a series of tight matches with Orenburg, which we won and therefore were able to climb to second place regular season in the Russian Ch.

Orenburg - a strong team, we see it at each meeting - the duel was intense. It was the same for our semifinal match with Orenburg in the Russian Cup in Yekaterinburg, unfortunately, we lost and did not reach the final phase.

Due to busy schedule, I am tired, I'm eager to return to Moscow.

Had to play a consolation match for third place with Dynamo Novosibirsk. We won and won bronze medals at the Cup of Russia 2011.

I am very sorry for the way we played in the Cup, we really wanted to play the final with UMMC. But the pleasure that I recognized as the best defender in the tournament, it became for me a surprise and very enjoyable.

After the Cup of Russia, our team has begun with new forces to prepare for the Euroleague playoffs.

In a match of 1 / 8 final evroturnira our opponent is a team of Italian Beretta Famila Schio. The first game we managed to win by a margin of only 5 points in the end, first of all, thanks to an excellent game Milovanovic.

However, the second match we lost with a difference of one seulpoint the Italians. Painful defeat, as the whole game we had to run, but in the end we failed to keep his head!

It should be noted that this season we have not lost our meetings with a difference of only 2.1 points in the final seconds of the match. Realizing the latest attacks and problems with its implementation have become a stumbling block for our team. Well, it'll work.

I can not tell you, what adventures we arrive at Schio. This was my longest trip and more disorganized in my career. At seven o'clock in the morning, 3 February our team met at Sheremetyevo. When everyone arrived, it appeared that more than half of the team players can not take a flight to Venice (we flew in Schio in this wonderful city) - simply because they do not deliver no tickets. What should I do? Fly to Italy from Domodedovo ....

Ultimately we had to rush to express to the metro station "Belarus", and from there the metro to Paveletskaya and again on the express train to the airport Domodedovo.Le trip was memorable, imagine in the morning peak at eight, big girls with huge bags are scrambling to enter a subway car! We had to stay together and cut all the people trying to climb between the bags and us, and this was no laughing matter, because it was necessary to closely monitor to ensure that our foreign will not be lost in the crowd and reach the desired station.

So after a long journey to the capital we finally arrived at Domodedovo and in the evening, we went to Venice. A Schio, we were at 24 hours after leaving home!!

Now, thanks to the series 1-1, and we will play a decisive match to reach the quarter-finals ... Wednesday, February 9, we will do our best to win and continue the season in the Euroleague! I invite you all to support our team!

If we can defend a ticket to the quarterfinals of the Euroleague, the Top8 we will play with Fenerbahce, which had played a Diana Taurasi (she recently left the team on the requirements of Committee anti-doping). Fenerbahce has now Anete Ekabsone, who left the club to the Turkish team a fortnight ago, in mid January.

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