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When you have a career like Lubos it’s hard to know from where to start, but like always we will start from his early beginnings.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. If you are making mistakes…you’re Doing Something. “
When you have a career like Lubos it’s hard to know from where to start, but like always we will start from his early beginnings.
In summer 1992, Barcelona Olympics, American Dream Team. That was the moment when he fell in love with basketball.
“It was as if someone from Mars had suddenly come to play.”He got into basketball when he was 7 years old. Under the leadership of coach Miroslav Potměšil, he developed rapidly in the youth teams in Česká Lípa and was also included in the U17 and U19 national teams. At the age of 17, due to faster player growth, he moved to the first-league BK Děčín.
Barton possesed a long wingspan and physical attributes from his parents who were also good athletes. With these good physical parameters, a jump, strength it was easy to predict that he is going to be a very good professional athlete. After hight school, he went to study and play basketball in the USA.
He was a four-year started at Valparaiso University, and helped the team make NCAA tournament three times during his time there. He was the leagues MVP in his final senior year in 2002. He put his name in the NBA draft and unlike his Czech peer Jiri Welsch, he was not selected. Even though he put up a quite good impression in the NBA summer league that year, Barton prefered to come back to Europe and signed with italian powerhouse Fortitudo Bologna.
In the following years, he played in clubs in Italy (Fortitudo Bologna, Virtus Roma), Spain (Joventut Badalona, FC Barcelona, Fuenlabrada and Valencia). His most successful years were in Spain where he took many titles with Joventut and with Barcelona teams. Impressive 5-year run was capped with Euroleague title in 2010. After returning to the Czech Republic, he played briefly for USK Prague, and in the summer of 2014, he transferred to the ČEZ Basketball Nymburk team. At the end of 2015, he took advantage of the offer of the Barcelona Club, where he played in the reserve team. Besides obvious playing, his duty was to mentor young players and prepared himself for a coaching career.
He began his career as a coach at Europrobasket, leading the Europrobasket team as a Head Coach. After two months with Europrobasket, he was offered a position as assistant coach of the FC Barcelona Cadet team.
He saw a unique chance to “fix” someone at his young age from a basketball and human point of view.Thanks to his rich career, he has a clear idea of how basketball should be played and that’s what he demands from his players. He served 3 years in the FC Barcelona youth categories.
His specialty has been working with the big guys, as well as mentoring the young star players. In that season, Barton took his Cadet team to the final game of the Spanish championship, where he lost by two points to the other Spanish powerhouse Real Madrid.
During that time, since 2017, Barton has been also working with the Czech basketball association. First, he joined the senior national team for the Euro championship in 2017, then shortly after he was named the head coach of the Czech Republic U18 national team in 2018, and the team to advance to division “A” in 2019. In 2020, it was his 4th year, leading the group of players born in 2003 and 2004.
In the Euroleague Basketball Adidas Next Generation Tournament Istanbul, coach Barton led Basket Brno for its first victory in ANGT history as it knocked off U18 Tofas Bursa 71-66 in overtime to finish seventh in Istanbul.
To put a extra plus in his career Lubos have won another ticket to The Euroleague Basketball Adidas Next Generation Tournament enters its 20th edition this season. he brings Basket Brno another year with more experience.
We can talk days about Lubos Barton’s interesting basketball career, but one thing is sure, he was an amazing player on the right track to becoming an even better coach, teaching young players important things in life and basketball.
When you have a career like Lubos it’s hard to know from where to start, but like always we will start from his early beginnings.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. If you are making mistakes…you’re Doing Something. “
Crystal Angels is an artistic proposal aimed at people who love Swarovski crystals, beauty and glamour.
The artist Valérie Brusauro, Diva Art, proposes a unique series of portraits that mix art and jewellery.
A unique concept Valérie Brusauro, who promotes her work under the pseudonym Diva, is known in the world of art and luxury goods for her unique creations with Swarovski crystals. With over 15 years of experience creating exclusive works of art for VIP clients and prestigious brands, Valérie has embarked on this new project with the desire to innovate and surprise Valérie has invited the photographer Iván Grey, with whom she has collaborated since 2015, to accompany her in a new adventure.
The two artists have decided to create an exclusive artwork of epic proportions made up of 88 portraits of women.
The final work will be a representation of our universe as perceived by the naked eye and the 88 constellations that cover the night sky.
Inspired by Victoria’s Secret Angels, Valérie and Ivan will create 88 Crystal Angels.
88 Crystal Angels 88 women for the 88 constellations covering the sky.
88 women who represent glamour, elegance and femininity.
Each Crystal Angel will be associated with a constellation and will bear its name.
These 88 beauties, shining together, will represent universal beauty.
Women who represent a generation of free women who have left behind the old ways; women who are independent, dreamers and fighters.
Women who like to look beautiful and enjoy their beauty Crystal Angels exhibition and the Crystal Universe
With the authorization of the model, their image will be used as part of the final gigantic artwork.
Along with 87 others, her portrait will form part of the representation of the universe as perceived by the naked eye, and its constellations. Your image will be associated with a constellation that will bear your name. A unique opportunity for a wonderful experience to form part of a monumental work that will pay homage to beauty and life.
The creative process
Candidates will first have to answer to some questions to allow the artists to get an impression of their personality. Secondly, before the photo session, a brunch will be organized in one of the most emblematic restaurants in the city.
The desire is that this will be a unique moment where the artists and the model can talk and get to know each other.
At a later date, photoshoots will take place in Grey's studio, perfectly equipped for portrait sessions, with a team of renowned makeup artists and professional hairdressers. In a personalized atmosphere created especially for her, the model will be able to freely express herself in front of the camera in an intimate and relaxed atmosphere.
Models will then be able to partake in the selection of the final photo on which the portrait will be based, the photo that Valerie will use to transform the model into an angel of crystal and light.
The deadline for completion and delivery of final artworks will be 3 months.
CRYSTAL ANGELS FOR THE WORLD
For each portrait ordered, part of the money is destined to support the foundations who defends young girls rights all around the world.
More than an artistic project, the Crystal Angels purpose is to help people and especially young women who are suferrring violence, forced marriage, or mutilation.
To become a Crystal Angel please contact directly Valérie
website: www: divaartexclusive.com
The final artwork is a unique piece and have a size of 110 cm x 80 cm
Mix mixed media print on Canson Infinity of hight definition with an handmade application of 1000 crystals from the Swarovski Colors & Effects range.. The artwork is sold with its certificate of authenticity and signed by the two artists.
On this new artistic adventure Valérie has invited her collaborator Ivan Grey, a fashion photographer with whom she shares this artistic vision. “Our meeting was magical, an instant connection in which we quickly realised that we shared the same love of beauty and art”.
Valérie and Ivan are both very creative and open personalities and this allows them to connect and be close with the models they portray.
“We are passionate about discovering people and bringing to light their inner selves and the beauty of their souls”.
Valérie Brusauro and Ivan Grey, in the creation of Crystal Angels, express themselves through the true universal language of beauty and light.
Valérie Brusauro and Ivan Grey are the founders of the Crystal Angels project conceived in Barcelona where the two artists met in 2015.
The fusion of these two personalities and talents resulted in the creation of this truly unprecedented artistic concept.
“Love is a taste, but for us the creation of beauty is art “
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