Basketball
Ataman: “I’m the best coach in Europe in the last 10 years.”
Elgin AtamanAlready legendary figure with three European basketball titles Euroleague In his record (two with Anadoru Evs in 2021 and 2022, and the other with Panatinaicus Athens in 2024), he recombines the headlines in bold statements. In the final prelude EuroBasket Your choice in 2025 Türkiye Face the current world champion Germanystrategists have not hesitated to self-promotion the best coaches on the continent in the last decade.
“Maybe they can call it ego, that might be real. I’ve been the best coach for the past decade. Europe“, I said Ataman Without blushing or doubting. “If I were in the final, I’d win,” he said.
The opportunity to add the first big international title to his curriculum does not seem to interfere with Ataman’s calmness. Despite the obvious tension between federal members and their technical teams, the coach says the stress of the finals has already surpassed after their first experience in the Euroleague. “Then it’s the same for each game. It’s the same for me. It’s no stress. It’s a basketball party,” he said gently at a press conference before the meeting.
in fact, Ataman I made a joke on his eaves Cedi Osman About his vast experiences in high pressure matches. “We’ve had the experience of playing against Panathinaikos and Olympiacos and going through the final where the atmosphere, the great rivals feel is a huge stress,” he explained. For them, it’s a final encounter EuroBasket Especially in Athens, after living the strength of the Greek final, it does not represent an important psychological challenge.
Finally, Ataman highlighted the personal differences between his club and his national team training. “The only difference for me is that I have to speak English at the club. Now I enjoy speaking in my language,” he said. According to him, the comfort of this language promotes communication and ensures that players are better aware of their guidelines and are preparing to “lift the cup” the next day.
Source: Mundo Deportivo
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Paris Nizhny Novgorod beat Zenit St. Petersburg in an away match of the VTB United League regular season.
The meeting in St. Petersburg ended with a score of 99:89 (18:13 27:21, 27:28, 27:27) in favor of the guests. The most productive player of the meeting was the basketball player of the Nizhny Novgorod team Isaiah Washington – 28 points. Zenit has 18 points from Levi Randolph. Andrey Martyuk also scored a double-double for the St. Petersburg team (12 points and 12 rebounds).
The Nizhny Novgorod team defeated Zenit in St. Petersburg for the first time since October 2019, the league press service reports.
Paris Nizhny Novgorod is in ninth place in the standings, Zenit is fourth.
Watch live broadcasts of VTB United League matches on the TV channels of the Match group, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source: Sportbox
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Krasnodar Lokomotiv-Kuban defeated Moscow MBA-MAI in an away match of the VTB United League.
The meeting in Moscow ended with a score of 107:82 (27:24, 26:22, 27:17, 27:19). The most productive player of the match was Lokomotiv-Kuban basketball player Patrick Miller, who scored 23 points. MBA-MAI has 17 points from Maxim Barashkov.
Lokomotiv-Kuban (14 wins/8 losses) is in fifth position in the VTB United League standings, MBA-MAI (10/10) is sixth.
Watch live broadcasts of VTB United League matches on the TV channels of the Match group, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source: Sportbox
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Basketball
A stadium in Europe was drowned in Russian flags. The vile prank of the Balts did not go unanswered
Photo: © RIA Novosti / Vitaly Belousov
A beautiful gesture from the fraternal people.
Sanctions against Russian athletes are gradually being eased, but for the most part they are still in effect. Today, there is a growing understanding in the global sports community that without our athletes, international competitions lose a lot.
An important point in this situation is not only the political will of individual officials, but also the opinion of ordinary citizens of Western countries. Often ordinary people show much more common sense than officials.
Fans of the European club hung Russian flags in the stands to support our athletes in a difficult situation.
Reply to Lithuanians
In April 2022, the moral panic around everything Russian was at its peak. It is not surprising that in European countries every public event was used to make one or another statement on a topic. The Baltic states, traditionally unfriendly towards Russia, especially tried.
Thus, during the Euroleague basketball match between the Lithuanian Zalgiris and the Serbian Red Star in Kaunas, local fans staged a political provocation: during the game, NATO flags appeared in the stands, and spectators began shouting insulting words at the Serbian basketball players.
The reason was that the Serbian side has always supported Russia in international conflicts. Before the match, the Crvena Zvezda basketball players followed this tradition and refused to be photographed with an anti-Russian banner, as the Zalgiris players did. If now the Olympic principle of political neutrality of sport is gradually being remembered, then in the West they preferred to hypocritically remain silent about it when it came to Russia.
Some time later, when Crvena was already playing a home match with the Turkish club Anadolu Efes, Serbian fans unfurled Russian flags in the stands, as well as banners with crossed out emblems of NATO and the European Union. Ordinary people of Serbia have shown that they are unequivocally on the side of the fraternal people.
Consistent support
Fans of Red Star, a club that has teams in many sports, have generally always had close ties to Russia. For example, the friendship between the fan movements of the Belgrade club and Moscow Spartak is well known. Football fans from Serbia have also expressed support for the Russians more than once. Back in 2017, during the match between Crvena and Krasnodar in the Europa League, flags with the Russian coat of arms were raised at the Rajko Mitić stadium.
Russian flags appear regularly at matches of the Serbian football championship. The most interesting thing is that it is very easy to get a tricolor in the Balkan country: just buy a Serbian flag and turn it over – and there you have the Russian flag. The fans, of course, take advantage of this opportunity.
In February 2025, we again watched the basketball confrontation between Red Star and Zalgiris in the Euroleague. This time, all the stands of the arena in Belgrade were painted in the colors of the Russian flag, and the fans sang “Katyusha” and MakSim’s song “Do You Know” – the unofficial anthem of Moscow Spartak.
“These Russian songs and banners were a reminder of the strong ties between the Serbian and Russian peoples that have lasted for centuries, and they also show an even stronger relationship between the fans of Red Star and Spartak Moscow,” a spokesman for the Serbian team told Sport24.
The longer Russian clubs and national teams remain suspended from international competition, the more the global sports community sees the absurdity of these sanctions – especially against the backdrop of double standards that apply when it comes to other countries.
Source: Sportbox
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