Sasha .... The Magician Of Berlin

Hellooo .. and  ... Goodbye  ....

Is het de tijd van vaarwel her en der in Europa waar heden middag de
Women EuroLeague Final Four in Praha plaats vind is het elkaar niet onder doen
straksjes in September EuroChamp in Groep B.
Weten we het nog ... Group Of Death ...

Waar onze bondscoach van Oranje Lions  graag in Berlin had willen spelen  .... eehhhhh ..
Graaaaaaaaaaaauwwww .... of was het ..
Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuull .....

Het is het beurt aan Sasha Djordjevic .. bondscoach van Servie om flink uit de hoek te komen.
Het stukje is te vinden op de web site van
www.fibaeurope.com
waar hij geen bochtjes wind met zijn woorden.

Coach Djordjevic heeft het over na laten schap van ..oude Yugoslavie  .... waar huidige Servie daar trots op moeten zijn waar zij het respeckt van vroeger moeten verdienen en te krijgen.

Daaaaaaaaaat is nogaal wat en zou zeggen lees hier onder verder , waar ik web site van fibaeurope bedank voor gebruik er van.

The info below is from the web site of 
www.fibaeurope.com
Thanks for shearing of this info.

DJORDJEVIC: EUROBASKET ONE OF BEST EVER

EUROBASKET 2015

Sasha Djordjevic will lead Serbia's team in their quest for success at EuroBasket 2015

Serbia head coach Aleksandar (Sasha) Djordjevic has foreseen that September's EuroBasket 2015 will turn into one of the best tournaments in the history of the competition. 

In an interview for the 'Legends of the EuroBasket' series of the French Basketball Federation (FFBB), which will host Group A and the final round of the show-piece tournament, Djordjevic left no doubt that he relishes the prospect of a highly competitive EuroBasket 2015.

"I think it is going to be one of the strongest European championships ever," the Serbian legend said.

"And we are very lucky to be a part of it.

"France is definitely the biggest favourite for me, together again with Spain.

"Even if they change a little bit their team structure, they will still be a very tough team to beat.

"We also respect very much the other teams [like] Greece, Russia, Germany, which I am hearing is going to be very strong, Ukraine, who is an up and coming team, or Turkey who have a great team."

Djordjevic, who during his playing career won the EuroBasket on no less than three occasions with the former Yugoslavia, in 1991, 1995 and 1997, understands better than anybody what the motivation of all those excellent players who will take to the court in September will be.

"EuroBasket is so special because in the life of an athlete, of a competitor," he exlained.

"You can achieve a lot of individual goals or titles with your club, but unless you win that trophy that I was admiring for so many years and I've lifted as captain (of Yugoslavia), until you do that, you don't get as much credit within our community as a player or a rival, you have to win it at least once.

Serbia, who were drawn in Group B in Berlin together with Spain, Turkey, Germany, Italy and Iceland, have of course lofty ambitions of their own, no matter how strong they expect their opponents will appear.

Especially after the amazing silver medal success at last year's FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain.

"We cannot hide behind the success we had last summer," Djordjevic offered.

"We have to go out there and compete with the best.

"Maybe we are not the best, but nobody forbids us to practice like we are the best and believe that we are the best."

For Djordjevic and his men, success at EuroBasket 2015 will not only be measured by silverware, but also by the way their team is perceived both inside their country and by the European basketball community.

"We want to prove, or at least I want to prove, that the legacy of Yugoslavian basketball belongs to Serbia," Djordevic explained.

"I want to convince my players that we are the legal owners of that huge heritage.

"I absolutely feel that I am on a special mission, which is to bring back the respect that the Serbian team had.

"That was actually what the first meeting I had with all my staff and players was about, I was talking half an hour about this goal, that was our mission, their mission.

"To bring back that respect which was somewhat lost in the fog."

A first, enormous step in that direction was of course made last September, in Madrid.

Few expected Serbia to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup and they were certainly not the favourites against France, but they defeated the EuroBasket reigning champions 90-85 to enter the title game.

"[The players] through their behaviour, their relationship with the jersey, with their heart, the flag, the national anthem, and the way they played, they proved they are very mature and they kind of achieved that [goal]," Djordjevic said.

"All the emotions our players transmitted from the basketball court to the fans were the same  when we returned back to Serbia with the silver medal around our necks."

Door LuluHoops