A Ukrainian basketball player left an American team because of a 17-year-old #Russian girl Ekaterina Koval, a star on the American college team the LSU Tigers, suddenly left the team, citing “personal reasons.” The real reason behind her decision turned out to be rather unusual: the team had just signed Anna Minayeva, a 17-year-old basketball player from #Moscow. The prospect of playing alongside this young Russian caused such fear in the Ukrainian athlete that she chose to pack her bags