Valdemaras Chomičius

Valdemaras Chomičius (also known as Valdemaras Homicius; born 4 May 1959) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player. He represented the Soviet Union and Lithuania national teams, and was an assistant coach for Lithuania.

Career Chomičius with his former Soviet Union men's national team teammates with whom he won the 1988 Summer Olympics basketball tournament. Following Lithuania's independence restoration in 1990, Olympic champions Chomičius, Arvydas Sabonis, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Rimas Kurtinaitis played for the Lithuania men's national team. As a tall point guard he is best remembered as the captain from the "golden years" of Žalgiris Kaunas by winning three consecutive USSR League championships against the rival CSKA Moscow in 1985–1987. His former teams include Žalgiris Kaunas, Forum Valladolid, CAI Zaragoza. He also has played in Italy for Aprimatic Bologna (Serie A2) in the 1990–1991 season. He last played for Olimpas Žemaitija during the 1996–1997 season. He served as player-coach for Kraitenė Marijampolė, was the assistant coach with PBC Ural Great Perm from 1999 to 2004, also serving as head coach for the team in the 2004-2005 season. He briefly coached PBC Dynamo Moscow in 2003, and was the assistant coach for BC UNICS, serving as the team's head coach in the 2009-2010 season. He was also the head coach for Triumph Lyubertsy from 2010 to 2012, BC Dnipro from 2012 to 2015, and worked as a coach for BC Parma in the 2016–17 season. In 2018–2020 he was head coach for BC Dzūkija.

He head coached the Lithuania national team to win the FIBA Stanković Continental Champions' Cup in 2005 FIBA Stanković Continental Champions' Cup.

Honors and awards Honored Master of Sports of the USSR: 1982 Officer's Cross of the Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas: 1995 Great Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit for Lithuania: 2003 2014 Arvydas Sabonis. 11 Himself Documentary about Arvydas Sabonis, a teammate of Chomičius in multiple teams. 2023 Bilietas (The Ticket) Himself Documentary about the basketball club Žalgiris Kaunas in 1979–1989.