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Guy Pnini: "Can bring a European Cup to Holon" | Israel today

2021-04-01T05:55:26.523Z


| Israeli basketball Purple in madness after advancing to the Champions League Final 8 • Coach Stefanos Dadas: "We did something great for the club" • Representatives of the factory came to Toto Hall to check the conditions, also Ankara among the leading candidates to host the prestigious event Maxim de Zhao Photo:  Danny Maron 1  big celebrations at Hapoel Holon after the dramatic 79:81 victory yesterday (Wednes


Purple in madness after advancing to the Champions League Final 8 • Coach Stefanos Dadas: "We did something great for the club" • Representatives of the factory came to Toto Hall to check the conditions, also Ankara among the leading candidates to host the prestigious event

  • Maxim de Zhao

    Photo: 

    Danny Maron

big celebrations at Hapoel Holon after the dramatic 79:81 victory yesterday (Wednesday) over Italian Brindisi and the historic promotion to the final stage of the Champions League.

"At the beginning of the closure, when I first arrived in Israel, I watched with my assistant and the members of the management in the Final 8 held in Athens. We seemed completely disconnected from all this," said happy coach Stefanos Dadas. We all understand that we are capable of doing great things and now we feel we have done something great for the club. "

Guy Pnini was asked if he and his teammates could win a historic European Cup for the city of Holon and replied with great confidence: "Why not? I think we went through the difficult part. Now we reach Final 8 to win and enjoy. In one game we can win any team."

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hero of the moment was of course Maxim de Zhao, who scored a winning basket 0.3 seconds before the end of overtime.

The Belgian high is in a bad personal period, and also yesterday missed all of his free throws, but was cool at the crucial moment to score the important basket.

"I felt like a striker who scored a goal," said the Belgian, and honestly admitted, "You're not stupid and I'm not stupid. Everyone knows I'm having a hard time right now, I'm not hiding it, but as long as you can win, then who cares about Maxim de Zhao? "Do it, then it does not matter at all. The main thing is that we will win and be happy. As a professional you know that lately you are not helping the team and most of the time you will hear contempt whistles towards you, but the fans were behind me and sang for me, I appreciate them and want to thank them."

Pnini, who in a typical winery action handed him the critical ball, added: "I'm happy for Max. Everyone sees the last period when he was not so good. One has to understand what is behind each player because he is without his family. Today I have children, "And when I'm three days without them, I'm just torn. He's got into some snowball that's hard to get out of, so I'm really happy for him.

Now all efforts are directed towards one thing - hosting the games in Holon.

As we first published a few weeks ago, the club's leaders have begun examining the possibility of bringing the games to Israel and the checkpoint is financial.

The group says that financial assistance of one and a half million euros is needed for the move to be implemented, and for that we need the cooperation of the Ministry of Sports, the Holon Municipality and the Basketball Association.

Yesterday, CEO Roi Deborah contacted the Ministry of Sports again in an attempt to expedite the issue.

Representatives of the Champions League came to the game against Brindisi to check the conditions at Toto Hall, but it is currently not clear how high the chances are for the move.

One of the leading candidates for hosting is Turk Telecom Ankara, which can guarantee its immigration if it wins next week in Strasbourg.

"It would be a crazy thing in Israeli basketball," said Pnini, "on days like this you can not see an audience like this in Europe and I think it is in everyone's interest, both in the Champions League and ours, that there be such an atmosphere, so it would be the right move to bring it to Israel."

Source: israelhayom

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