With the upcoming competitive season still a long way to go before it starts, the scenes with the titles that the women’s division won this year flash back through the mind. Olympiakou. It is a reasonable question to ask who of all we are talking about. From October 2021 onwards, the Red and Whites won the European Super Cup, the Euroleague, the Cup and closed the season with the championship.
Of course, this was not the first year this happened, since last season the exact same thing happened. But there is an essential difference, this one at the end of the bench, since o Harry Pavlidis he moved with his direct partner Kostas Hatzidakis to China, leaving behind a legacy with an inconceivable weight. His last game on the bench of the European Super Champions was that of the Super Cup against Kineff Kirisi. Where the Papastrateio was packed with people, Olympiacos lifted the first cup of the season or the last of the previous one… Where everyone knew that they were essentially saying goodbye to Haris Pavlidis, the man who planned the creation of a dynasty inside and outside the borders.
Thessaloniki won 10 championships with the red and whites, including 8 consecutive 2 Euroleagues, 1 Len Trophy and two European Super Cups. From 2007 to 2021, that is, it reached 21 titles with 5 of them being European.
When the time came when it was announced that he would be leaving for… Asia, naturally the nomenclature of the coaches did not stop. Greeks and foreigners were repeatedly heard about the “royal” chair, but the name that the administration of Piraeus came up with was one and it sounded in the name Aleksandar Ciric. Huge career as an athlete and ambitious as a coach, but his task is difficult. Of course, at this point the opinions are divided, since some believe that he got a ready-made well-tuned machine and others that he got a “hot potato” since if the Serb failed, he would be charged for everything. From 2015 until the day he took over the Champions, he was a member of the Iran Men’s National Team.
So he arrived with Stergios Torosiadis by his side as a direct partner and assistant. And there he began to produce work, to draw his own line and to be known little by little by the Greek sports fans. Imposing appearances in Greece but also ease, at least to the “eye”, in the way the victories seemed to come in Europe. It looked like a harbinger of what was to come, and it was apt, since Olympiacos won all three titles it claimed without appearing to struggle even in Europe when it faced the “beast” called Sabadell in the final. Now he is waiting for the date of the European Super Cup, where he will face the fellow citizen of Ethniki, who won the Len Trophy against Dunaisvaros.
Aleksandar Ciric had the choice to either dance with the wolves or dance with the… titles and he chose the latter. Of course, the new season is expected to be long and no one knows what will happen next, but surely the foundations for the continuation are there…
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