The Final-8 of the Cup are … before the gates, with their leaders The groups that have traveled to Crete to claim the trophy, make statements ahead of the first jump!
Kostas Sloukas (Panathinaikos), Kostas Papanikolaou (Olympiacos), Dimitris Fliouis (AEK), Dimitris Katsivelis (PAOK), Vassilis Xanthopoulos (Dove), Linos Chrysikopoulos (Prometheus), Nikos Diparos (Karditsa) and Angel Gatzias (NE Megaridos), spoke before the quarter -finals.
Read what they said:
Katsivelis: “Important to find the best teams in the same place”
“It is very important that we are in the Final 8 of the Cup. We made a very good first round with third place in the league and in the cup institution we will claim all the chances we have for the best possible and go as far as possible. Our first opponent is AEK, which is a very quality team. It is a rhythm team and in the meantime game in Athens, when they left in the score we could not come back, but this will be a completely different game. We will give that we have to stop the rhythm of AEK, to play our game and be the one we will move on.
Crete is a very welcoming place, they love basketball very much and it will be very important that the best teams will find there to play beautiful basketball and claim two trophies in men and women’s cups. I hope in a short time we are ready to see fans of all teams on a full stadium, enjoy basketball. It’s a picture I would love to see in the future ».
Xanthopoulos: “Ready to claim our chances”
“We are very happy that for another year Domino’s will be in OPAP Final 8 of the Men’s Greek Cup. We know that against us in the quarter -finals we will find a very difficult opponent, such as Panathinaikos Aktor. Nevertheless, I hope we will be ready to claim as many chances we have for a great qualification in the semifinals. Also, I would like to point out that it is very nice and important that the Final Four of the Women’s Cup is done at the same time.
In recent years, women’s basketball has risen very much and I think this co -organization will help a lot in the rise of women’s basketball, in view of the Eurobasket in our country in the summer. “.
Chrysikopoulos: “Very important we are back in Final-8, representing an entire city”
“We are very happy to participate in the Final 8 of the Greek Cup for the second consecutive year. It is very important because we represent an entire city and we want to go as high as we can. Our first goal is to move on to the “4”, with the Elite League from Megarida. It is a remarkable team and we should never underestimate it, because we will pay for it.
If we do our debt to the quarter-finals, then the… tiger begins, because we will find the winner of the couple Peristeri-Panathinaikos in front of us. There, we know that we do not have the chances with us, especially if the couple’s favorite qualifies, that is, Panathinaikos but we will do our best to do so.
I want to dwell on the fact that at the same time with our own Final 8, the women’s Final 4 will be held. It is a very nice move that brings the institution closer to the public and slowly puts the women’s basketball in the consciousness of the Greek fan. It is a particularly positive thing that needs to be highlighted, especially in a year that Eurobasket is being held in Greece. “.
Dipos: “Let’s set the example that sport unites”
We feel great joy and pride that our team participates for the first time in the eight best teams in the competition. For the AS organization Karditsa Japanese, the city and the society it represents, is a great and historic moment our presence at OPAP Final 8 of Greece, in its 50th anniversary.
It is important that this celebration of the sport concerns not only of men’s basketball but also for women, while conducting the Final 4 Cup of Greece Women who proves that basketball is unified, brings unity and is the means to unite the fans and the fans. Our society.
We, for our part, want to have a presence worthy of recent years and this year’s march, although we know that we will find one of Europe’s top teams in the quarter -finals. But beyond what will be unfolded on the four lines of the stadium, what we want to project again, without being a cliché, is the health and dynamics of our club at all levels, as a provincial team that is constantly exceeding expectations. Everyone gives us the right to dream of even more achievements.
I hope that the event will be successfully crowned and our team will give ‘present’ to such great sports appointments to offer, at every opportunity, joy to our fans. Together, let’s set the example that sport unites! “.
Gatzias: “We want to enjoy the moment”
“We are very happy to have been able to get to the Final 8, along with the biggest teams in the Greek Basketball League. It is unprecedented for us, as it is the first time that our team will participate in such an event. We want to enjoy the moment and do our best by claiming what is the like in the game with Prometheus. “.
Source: Sport Fm
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