“I decided to leave professional basketball! Yes – this is the end, maybe not as I imagined in my thoughts, and as I told my close friends about some childhood dream at the age of 40.
I understood in my head that the end was in the city of Rivne – bronze! (with the pioneers, both the coach and most of the players, I understood for myself that I passed this game at the maximum level with such introductions), which has been with me for life and hardly anyone can beat the “bronze king”, as they say in the number and succession of these awards. It would be symbolic to finish against the team with which he played in the distant 2004 for the first and last time in 2025 for bronze, only now for some reason the thought came to me.
But we have what we have, there are circumstances that I cannot influence, and there are more important than professional basketball, even at the current level. I moved him as much as I could, despite the smelly Russian, which hinders us all, we mastodons of the 80s tried to compete with the youth, somehow warm the media and interest in this sport.
Thank you very much to everyone I played with, and that’s a lot of people over 30+ years, I don’t want to forget anyone! To all the teams with whom we were together both in grief and in joy! To all the judges, this is also incredible and hard work! To all the media, who also tried and are still trying to raise and keep this sport.
See you in ordinary life and at amateur basketball! The glory of the nation is death to enemies,” Andriy wrote.
Agafonov acted for Khimik, Budivelnyk, Odesa and Ternopil. He has won the Super League championship and has won bronze six times. Andriy’s last club was the Cherkasy Monkeys, in which the veteran started the current season.
Source: sport.ua