Pitino: “He says with … ecclesiastical game the Kentucky – Louisville in front of Panathinaikos – Olympiacos”

Great interview on a US online channel gave the Rick Pitino. American coach a few days after the NCAA District Championship with the St. Joneshe talked, among other things, about his passage from Panathinaikos, the great rivalry he exists with Olympiacos and his experiences from the “reds” clashes.

Indeed, Rick Pitino, on a look back, revealed a backdrop from Constantinople when he had gone with the “clover” for a match with Fener in the Euroleague and the police accompanied the mission to the machine gun trigger!

“We had 30 police officers with shields to get on the court. The hatred for Olympiacos is so extreme and vice versa. Kentucky – Louisville in front of Panathinaikos – Olympiacos would look like a game of ecclesiastical championship and I am not exaggerating. There were 20,000 people inside the stadium and I felt I would die of lung cancer after 12,000 smoked »he said first.

Rick Pitino then revealed how much he was scared on a Panathinaikos trip to Istanbul with Panathinaikos as part of the “Greens” clash with Fenerbahce: “Yes I might have had the opportunity to be a Euroleague coach, but for me there was a little fear of being there. Think of you going to Constantinople and in front of you you have a police escort, and behind you there is a van, where people inside have six machine guns with hand in the trigger. Then I thought that was a little unusual. “

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