The missing Barnaul basketball player could not have fallen from the bridge himself, the athlete’s first coach said

The Barnaul basketball player who disappeared in Krasnoyarsk could not have fallen from the bridge himself, said the athlete’s first coach, Alexander Avdeev.

Law enforcement officers studied recordings from surveillance cameras for the evening of December 30 and found out that a 20-year-old BC Barnaul player fell into the Yenisei from a bridge. The search for him is still ongoing.

“He’s a very mentally stable person, you can see that from childhood.” Well, a knee injury, he would have recovered and continued to play. When they wrote that he fell from the bridge… he couldn’t do that. I feel that way, I’m still his children’s coach.

When children leave us, we monitor their future lives, communicate, and write to all the students two or three times a year. We worry about all the players. There is such a thing as a “sports dad.” He couldn’t do it himself, I don’t believe it,” NGS24.RU quotes the coach as saying.

Petukhov is from Krasnoyarsk. In 2021, the basketball player became the champion of the VTB United Youth League as part of CSKA Moscow. He has been playing for BC Barnaul since 2023.

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