Tonight (04/30, 21:30), o Olympic welcomes to the packed SEF the Barcelona for Game 3 of the Euroleague playoffs series, aiming to make it 2-1 in wins and get even closer to qualifying for the Final 4 in Berlin!
The leader of the “red and white”, Kostas Papanikolaou, which he will give tonight normally the “present” after his absence from the first two matches with the Catalans due to infection, he was hosted on the Euroleague camera, speaking for the moments that marked his career in the institution!
Specifically, to the Greek forward photos provided from his course in Piraeus, both from his first steps, and from back-to-back conquests of the Euroleague, with him declaring himself proud of his career so far!
The statements of Kostas Papanikolaou in detail:
For his first steps with the “red and white”: “I came to a big club like Olympiacos and my first game was important. I remember that my coach, Panagiotis Giannakis, was trying to tell me to do the simple things and not to exaggerate, not to try to do something different.”
On his appearance in the 2012 Final Four, when Olympiacos won the EuroLeague: “I had a good Final Four in Istanbul, but it wasn’t that important. The important thing is the photo showing that we won the trophy, which was important to everyone. I’m blessed to have won the EuroLeague, it’s very important for me and how my career has developed after this trophy.”
On winning the EuroLeague in 2013, in Olympiakos’ second straight title: “Getting back to the Final Four and winning the EuroLeague with a new coach was even more difficult. I remember we started the season with two losses, but we kept fighting, working.
Coach Bartzokas continued to find ways for us to play properly and we found ourselves in a second consecutive Final Four and became back to back champions. This was incredible. No one could have imagined that this would happen.”
On last year’s EuroLeague final and the loss to Real: “This game was difficult. I told the kids this is life, sports. We were ahead by a point just before the end of the game. The fact that I look at all these pictures and see that in the last one I’m in a Final Four again is important when you look at your career. I’m proud and feel lucky about how my career has turned out.”
Source: Sport Fm
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