Franke: “Especially the game against Greece, it has a special place in my heart”

H Greece resumes on Monday (26/02, 20:30) its obligations in its preliminaries Eurobasketas he faces her Netherlands in The Hague for the 2nd matchday.

In the national team of “Oranie” an old… acquaintance of our country competes, o Yannick Frankewho competed last season in his jersey PAOK and talked about the great bond he managed to acquire with her Hellas.

His statements to ERT3 in detail:

“I feel that it is a special game because Greece is something special in my heart after last season with PAOK. I have fallen in love with your country, I miss many things especially from Thessaloniki, all of Greece, the culture… It will be fun, I will see some famous faces like Spanoulis and some other guys, it will be interesting.

It’s a tough group. The Greek team is very strong, I saw the names that will play, there are good names on the list. Greece is the favorite, the Czech Republic is the second favorite and Great Britain and we will fight but it will be interesting in any case. Anything can happen at the windows.”

About his presence in Palentia: “We expected it to be a difficult season, maybe not as much as it seems to be now. But you have to stay positive. Especially in the last games we beat Gran Canaria by 25-30 points, this gives us hope. It’s a tough season, I won’t lie.”

For PAOK: “Someone told me that there will be few times in your career when you will have special seasons, when everything will go well, everyone will love everyone, who will enjoy basketball. I think last year was one of those years where as PAOK we had a dream season, everyone had fun… I miss that. I still keep in touch with people… I learned that Stathis (Neratzakis) took over as coach and that is fantastic. He had covered the team in place of Lykogiannis in the qualifying game against Malaga. He showed his coaching skills. It will be interesting…”