Basketball
Papanikolaou: ‘We owed it to ourselves, to the world and to the Presidents’
Costas Papanikolaou, in his statements to ERT, explained that the specific cup is owed by the Olympiacos players to their world, to themselves and to the Presidents.
Costas Papanikolaou told ERT immediately after the game that there was a lot of pressure in the ranks of Olympiacos and that’s why the Red-Whites were transferred to Panathinaikos after the final, stressing that they own the specific title of themselves, the world and the world owed the presidents.
Details of what Costas Papanikolaou said: About the game: “It’s the emotion, it’s many years, I was in the last conquest. It’s a personal matter, a burden, a pressure, we didn’t manage to do that last time, it’s a difficult year We owed it to ourselves in the world and especially to the Presidents“.
For the Final Four: “The important thing is that today we showed the magic that we have to continue like this excluding Sasha who was there“.
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