With the teams which will be invited to face in the Olympic tournament of Paris, although if it qualifies, our national basketball team does not have a special history. Besides, he has only participated in three Olympic Games events to date. He has never played with Canada, while he has faced Australia twice. In Atlanta in 1996 he lost with a heavy 103-62, while in Athens in 2004 he got revenge by winning with an impressive 76-54. In that game, current coach Vassilis Spanoulis had only played 6 minutes, being absent. In 2008 in Beijing, he had also played against Spain, a possible opponent this year as well. They were defeated 81-66 with Spanoulis scoring 15 points.
As is well known, the CIES Football Observatory (International Center for Sports Studies) makes various economic but also more general analyzes of European football. Where did he end up in one of his last ones? He presented the 10 most expensive footballers, based on their transfer value, and Greece was also on the list.
So: according to the data, Giannis Constantelias has a transfer value of 18,000,000 euros and is the most expensive player in the Super League ahead of Santiago Ese of Olympiakos. The value of the Argentine midfielder is estimated at 12,500,000 euros. Third is Konstantinos Koulierakis with 12 million euros and the top five is completed by Fotis Ioannidis (11.5 million euros) and Robert Ljubicits (8.6 million euros). I emphasize that all the players on the list come from the Big-4 (AEK, Olympiacos, PAOK, Panathinaikos). PAOK has four players, Olympiacos three, AEK two and Panathinaikos one player.
Door 7 issued a statement in relation to UEFA’s recommendation not to move fans to the City and brought as an example the 500 fans of Olympiakos who were on Tuesday night at the Efes stadium without creating the slightest problem.
“We fail to understand that while Olympiakos fans go everywhere in every country, to every seat in basketball, they are dangerous for football” was emphasized, among other things, in the announcement of port 7 and in which they recalled both the long trips to the City, during final four of 2012 and 2017, without the minimum happening.
Fate played a bad game for her, but Arina Sabalenka tries to continue her life normally. Despite the sudden death of her partner, Konstantin Koltsov, just 24 hours ago, the Belarusian champion will compete as usual at the Miami Open. She did not withdraw her participation, she trained yesterday and will make her debut today against Paola Bandosa for the second round. The Spaniard defeated Romanian Halep in her debut with 2-1 sets and is invited to face her best friend, as she stated: “It’s not easy for me either. We talked for quite some time both yesterday and today. Arina is a very strong woman and I expect a tough fight.” Today, I note, Maria Sakkari also makes her debut at the Miami Open, also in the second round, against the Chinese Yuan (no. 37).
What have I read recently? A very interesting topic was discussed by LeBron James with JJ Reddick, in the new podcast created by the two entitled “Mind The Game”. The King, in his almost 20-year illustrious career, has lived through many great players, but when asked to name those he believes changed the sport the most, he came up with two guards, namely Steph Curry and Allen Iverson.
“In terms of influence since I’ve been watching the game, Steph Curry and Allen Iverson are the two most influential people in our sport since I’ve been watching. To begin with, they are two “short” guys, a child could identify with them and believe that he can become like them. Iverson had the awesome crossover, the crazy hair, and the “sleeve” tattoo that everyone has now. Now you have Curry, who can shoot over the Empire State Building.” They influenced and changed the game like no one else,” LeBron explained. As I understand it, it refers to the era after Michael Jordan!
An incredible scene took place in the Cypriot basketball championship due to the desire of two teams not to win the match between them. Specifically, PAEK and Apollon faced each other in a match for the penultimate game of the championship where the winner would finish in sixth place and take part in the extra round of the championship. But none of the two groups wanted something like that because they would have to pay an extra monthly fee and that’s why they decided to… lose. How; One team lined up with just seven players and the other with five, and they didn’t have health cards with them. Now of course they are both in trouble as they were brought before the sports judge and the bell is expected heavily.
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2024-04-04 01:29:35