Partizan players in Nicosia played an excellent match, almost routinely defeated Anorthosis with 2: 0 and won three points and started the competition in the group stage of the Conference League.

Black and whites dominated in all segments of the game, created many opportunities, and only the goalkeeper of the home team Lori deserved that the triumph of the Belgrade team was not more convincing.

Attempts by the guests were rare, and every time either the defense or the young goalkeeper Popović was in the right place, so it seems that the black and whites would not have conceded a goal even if it had been played for 180 minutes.

Partizan was especially dominant in the first 45 minutes, when Miljković and Šćekić missed good chances, that is, goalkeeper Lori was in the right place.

However, the black and whites came to the advantage in the 42nd minute, when Quincy Menig scored his first goal in the Partizan jersey.

The Dutchman sent an excellent attack on his team, Markovic shot, Loria defended, and Menig put the deduction into the net.

Anorthosis coach Temur Kecbaya tried to change something on the field with changes and, true, the home team seemed a bit more serious in the first half hour of the match.

But, then the best scorer of the black and whites this season, Ricardo Gomes, came on the scene, who showed his skill in the penalty area of ​​the rival and shook Loria’s net with a strong shot.

Aleksandar Stanojević made changes in order to rest some players for the week, when the black and whites are expecting an “eternal derby” with the Red Star.

However, the black and whites could be worried about the condition of Ricardo Gomes, who left the game at the end of the match due to injury.

The black and whites could have won more convincingly in the finish if Holender and Jojić had been more precise, but the misses did not spoil the overall impression that Partizan left in Nicosia.

Partizan is first on the table of Group B of the Conference Conference with three points won, the same as Ghent, which celebrated with a minimal result against Flora in Tallinn.

The next match in Europe will be played by the black and whites on September 30, when the Estonian Flora arrives in Belgrade.

Young Israeli playmaker Jam Madar signed a three-year contract with Partizan, the Belgrade club announced.

Madar was born in 2000, and Hapoel from Tel Aviv has played for the last three seasons.

He was selected as the 47th pick by Boston in the 2020 draft, and during the summer he played in the Summer NBA League in a Celtics jersey.

In 2019, Madar won a gold medal at the European Championship for players under 20, where he was one of the best in the Israeli team, along with Dani Avdija.

The black and whites announced that Madar will soon join the black and whites in the preparations on Zlatibor, and he will wear the jersey number 41 in Partizan.

The Israeli is the seventh reinforcement of the black and whites this season, after the arrival of Aleksa Avramović, Kevin Panther, Zeko Lidej, Rodions Kuruks, Dallas Moore and Alen Smailagić.

The football players of Novi Pazar and Partizan spent significantly more than the planned 90 minutes on the field in the match of the fourth round of the domestic championship.

The reason for that is certainly the interruption of the match due to the improper chanting of the fans of both teams, which lasted for more than 35 minutes.

The host entered the match solidly, threatened first and hinted that he would not be afraid in the moments when he has the ball in his feet, but look for a way to endanger the opponent’s goal.

As time went on, Partizan gained control in the middle of the field and slowly came to its more recognizable game.

Pantic had the most concrete chances for the guests on a couple of occasions, but he did not manage to change the result.

When it was thought that he would go to the break without scoring a goal, Natho brought Partizan the lead in a masterful way.

The Israeli first created a position for himself to shoot from a distance, and then from 20-25 meters, with his left foot, he sent the ball into the net with a very precise and strong shot.

In the second part of the game, Partizan completely broke any resistance of the hosts.

At the very start of the second half, in the 49th minute, Urošević doubled the advantage of his team.

A good attack by Partizan and a deferred ball on the left side, from where the black-and-white defender “knocks” into the opponent’s net.

In the 60th minute, Partizan reached a convincing 3-0. A catastrophic mistake was made by the home goalkeeper Ostojić, who first caught the ball sent to Ricardo, and then dropped it straight at the feet of the attacker from Cape Verde, and he sent it into the undefended net without any major difficulties.

After that goal, the referee had to stop the match due to the inappropriate behavior of the fans in the stands.

The match was interrupted for about 35 minutes, because the home players, who left the field, did not want to return to it, until the visiting fans left the stadium.

After the intervention of the members of the police, the visiting fans left the stadium, and the match continued.

By the end of the match, two more goals were scored, one on each side.

First, Suma used Pantić’s timely pass in the 75th minute, “broke” the Novi Pazar defender and shook the net for 4: 0, and in the last moments of the match, Mijailović set the final 4: 1 with his head.

The guy born on October 25, 1994 in Čačak, is the second reinforcement of the very ambitious Partizan this summer.

In the recently concluded season, Avramović played for the Spanish Estudiantes, and previously he also played for Unicaja, Varese, Borac from Čačak and OKK Belgrade.

In the 2020/21 season, the new black-and-white defender had an average of 16.4 points and 3.5 assists per game in 36 games in the ACB League.

According to the club’s website, Avramović signed a two-year contract with the team that will again be led from the bench by Željko Obradović from Čačak.

Before him, Kevin Panther arrived at the club, who will earn 2,500,000 dollars in two years in Belgrade.

In the Belgrade hotel “Radison Blue”, the Basketball Club Partizan held a promotion of the new coach.

In addition to Zeljko Obradovic, the president of the club, Ostoja Mijailovic, as well as the sports director, Zoran Savic, also addressed the public.

“First of all, congratulations to the people from the Basketball Association of Serbia on the gold at the European Championships. Thank you to the president of the club for the chance he gave me to return and work for Partizan. What I came back for is something that comes from within, the deepest emotions I feel. I am and I am proud to be able to sit on the Partizan bench “, are the first impressions of Obradović.

The new / old black and white coach said that the decision to return was easy.

“I have been trying to help Partizan all these years, I have been in constant contact with the people from the club. I am glad that Ostoja managed to sort out many things in the club, first of all to consolidate some things financially, and now all together to try to return “Partizan is where it belongs. For me, this decision to return was easy. Last week, Ostoja and I met and after that conversation, I broke up,” adds Obradović.

The Serbian expert spoke about his ambitions, as well as what Partizan represents in European basketball.

“I don’t think there is a club in Europe that has given so many players, who were so important, won so many trophies, and then coaches who achieve good results. The only club in that rank is Real Madrid. What I would like is for the European League to recognizes that there are clubs in the former Yugoslavia that have indebted basketball in Europe and that they are trying to make more clubs from this region a permanent participant in the Euroleague.As for ambitions, it will probably be a question, they are the biggest possible. what does my arrival mean, what is expected, the only thing we are interested in is to be someone who will play in the Euroleague, but not for a year, but to be an integral part of the competition. I think Partizan has a place there and Partizan deserves it, “he said. is a black and white coach.

Obradovic also touched on the situation in regional basketball.

“You follow the situation primarily in the ABA league. I am glad to have contacts with all clubs, and since I think that all of us coaches, managers, sports workers have a task and responsibility for some things that happen and cause consequences for the fans.” “I can only promise that I will do everything to lower tensions. That is not good for anyone, we should work on improving basketball and congratulating each other after the match and creating the right atmosphere,” said Obradovic.

The most trophy-winning European coach can’t wait to start doing the job he knows best.

“I don’t think the risk is that I go back, I go back to something I love, it’s about pure emotion. There is a huge desire in me to start working with players, I am happiest when I go out on the floor. The biggest challenge for us is to let’s make a competitive team in all competitions, we know that there is quality here, first of all Red Star, which has dominated in recent years, then Buducnost, Igokea, Mornar, Olimpija, all clubs deserve respect.We have a big job ahead of us, but when you have the desire, you can to do a lot of things.I can’t promise anything else.I promise work, that we will do everything to get Partizan back to where it belongs.If at the end of the season we sit down and say that we and the players did everything in our power, we can be satisfied.”

Zeljko Obradovic is that summer 1991 was in Poreč for the national team preparations before the European Championship in Rome, while a new Partizan coach was wanted in Belgrade. Former – Dusko Vujosevic resigned after a smooth defeat by Jugoplastika in the final of the Yugoslav championship and ended up in the Red Star.

Not seeing a better replacement for Vujosevic, Dragan Kicanovic suggested that the current playmaker Zeljko Obradovic be appointed the first coach. President Radojica Nikčević, Dragan Todorić and Đordje Čolović were astonished by the proposal, but accepted it visionarily.

The decision with lasting consequences for European basketball was made suddenly and unexpectedly, but not without basis and idea. Zeljko also acted as a coach on the field, he understood the game, he had a notebook in which he wrote down the actions from training and it was known about his desire to start a coaching career after playing.

At the airport in Belgrade, Obradović announced to Duda Ivković that he was retiring from the national team because he became the coach of Partizan. As a counterweight to Obradović’s inexperience, Professor Aca Nikolić was appointed as an expert associate. Nikolic had a similar role in previous seasons with Bozidar Maljkovic in Split’s Jugoplastica. Milenko Savović was appointed sports director the same year.

The first season of the European League

Partizan got the opportunity to play against the best European clubs that season thanks to the changed system of the strongest European competition. The former European Champions Cup was renamed the European League by FIBA. The vice-champions of national championships, and even some lower-ranked teams from the strongest European leagues, gained the opportunity to compete.

That is how Partizan, defeated by Jugoplastika in last year’s final series of the last Yugoslav Championship, in which teams from Croatia also played, deserved a place in the second qualifying round. In two games, the Hungarian Szolnok was convincingly defeated with a total score of 181: 137.

Due to the increased number of participants, the teams were divided into two groups of eight teams after the qualifications, unlike in previous seasons. Partizan reached Group B with Juventud, Estudiantes, Philips from Milan, Bayer 04, Aris, Dutch Commodore and Belgian Maes Pils.

A young team without strangers

The average age of Partizan players in the Istanbul season was 21.7 years. There were no foreigners in the team. Before the start of the season, Zarko Paspalj, Miroslav Pecarski, Marko Ivanovic, Oliver Popovic and Zeljko Obradovic left the team and got a new role.

Vlada Dragutinović and Slaviša Koprivica returned from IMT. Mladjan Silobad came from Zvezda, and Zeljko Rebraca from Novi Sad’s NAP. The most experienced player of the new team was Dragan Šarić, a newcomer from Vojvodina. Stevanović, Nakić and Lončar stayed in the club with the back tandem Danilović-Đorđević.

Sasha and Sasha did not talk to each other during most of the championship season. The reason for the interruption of communication was a discussion at a training, and the real cause, as they later concluded, was too much ego and vanity.

It happened that they sat together at the table in the cafe with their girlfriends, good friends with each other, silently listening to them talk.

No one on the field could notice their disagreement. They were a tandem like Kića and Praja, the leaders and the best scorers of the team. Djordjevic will also hit the famous triple in the final, and Danilovic will be named the most useful player in the final four.

Partizan de Fuenlabrada

FIBA has decided that due to the war that has flared up in Croatia, teams from Yugoslavia must play abroad as hosts. After the preparations in Budva and Kopaonik, where good results were achieved in the preparatory matches, it was decided that Partizan, as the host of the European League match, will play in Fuenlabrada, a suburb of Madrid.

While Europe was appalled by the events in Yugoslavia, Partizan was welcomed in Fuenlabrada as if it had been founded there. People in Fuenlabrada could not resist Partizan’s youth, energy, beautiful basketball, but also exemplary behavior and treatment of the locals.

Fuenlabrada was infected with basketball and black and white colors. From the first to the last game of the group stage, Partizan was accompanied by loud support from the full hall. “Serbian brigades from Fuenlabrada”, it was written on a large banner under the arches of the hall, and the famous flag “Partizan de Fuenlabrada” was a warning to everyone that Partizan has a home and is not alone.

Unusual events in the suburbs of Madrid stopped being sympathetic to the Spanish public when the fans from Fuenlabrada cheered for Partizan against the Spanish teams Juventud and Estudiantes.

Nine wins and four defeats in the group

The fact that all four participants in the later final four were from Group B testifies to the quality of Partizan’s opponents in the group.

Partizan won the fourth place with nine victories and four defeats, the last one that led to the quarterfinals.

An important victory for the pass was achieved in Fuenlabrada against Juventud when Zoran Stevanović hit two free throws before the end of the match, and Slaviša Koprivica saved the victory by blocking on the other side of the field – 76:75.

Thin support in Belgrade

From the fourth place in the group, Partizan advanced to the quarter finals, where Knorr from Bologna, the first-placed player from Group A, was waiting for him in the series for two won matches. Knor had the advantage of the home Teran, and the propositions were such that in the first game, Partizan was the host.

FIBA allowed the match to be played in Belgrade. More than 4,500 spectators did not come to “Pionir”, and the enthusiasm of Belgrade fans was not at the level from Fuenlabrada. Black and whites won with the result 78:65.

The first game in Bologna was close to the hosts – 61:60. The exciting master ended with the victory of Partizan 69:65. I remember the dunking of Zoran Stevanović, who did not survive the board.

There was a break of almost half an hour, which cut off the good start of the Italians. Shooting them with various objects, the disappointed Bologna audience sent the black and whites to the final four.

Three points, three points! Time’s up!

Partizan left for Istanbul in a good mood – the plane did not even take off from Surčin, and it became known that assistant coach Velimir Gašić had a son.

Phillips from Milan and the terrible Doukins in the “Abdi Ipekci” hall did not prevent Partizan from qualifying for the finals. Juventud convincingly defeated Estudiantes in the Spanish clash and scheduled the third match with Partizan that season.

In the middle of the second part of the game, Juventud led with a maximum of 55:45, but by the end of the game, the advantage was slowly melting. The last minute of the game was played, and the scoreboard read 68:68. Villacampa missed a free throw (“shot one for one”), but Morales caught the ball and forced Danilović’s fifth foul.

Morales also missed a free throw, but Thompson jumped the ball to Djofresa in the jump. Đofresa spent 20 seconds, then started to break through, went around Đorđević and hit over Stevanović.

The ball went through the hoop and fell right into the hands of Morales, who naively, not giving his teammates time to stand in defense, handed it to Koprivica. Koprivica takes the ball to Djordjevic, and he runs next to the right car, stops in front of the line for three points, jumps on the shot with his feet turned almost towards the side car and, rotating his body in the air, shoots the ball towards the basket …

“Three points, three points! Time’s up! Don’t be angry that I fell silent for a moment. 71:70! I haven’t experienced this in my career.”

And domestic trophies in number

The campaign for the European trophy and the home field at the two ends of Europe did not prevent Obradović’s team from winning two domestic trophies without much trouble.

The league part of the Yugoslav Championship, in which teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina still played, but there were no Croatian ones, Partizan finished with 20 victories and only two defeats – from Bosnia and Rabotnicki, both with half a basket behind.

The balance was not spoiled in the playoffs either, since in two games of the semifinals, Sloboda from Tuzla was convincingly defeated, and then in the finals, Crvena zvezda with a total of 51 points difference in three games in Belgrade.

Partizan also won the third trophy – the Yugoslav Cup at the final tournament in Nis. In the semifinals, Rabotnicki from Skopje was defeated, and in the finals, quite convincingly, Sarajevo’s Bosnia was defeated with the result 105: 79.

No right to defend the title

Zeljko Obradovic remained the coach of Partizan next season – 1992/93, and it will turn out to be the only one who tied two seasons on the black-and-white bench in that decade. However, due to the difficult circumstances of the war, the departure of the best players, but also the lack of luck in some games, Obradović’s second season at Partizan ended without winning trophies.

Obradović has said several times that he would probably never become what he is today, if only the first season at Partizan looked like the second.

After winning the Euroleague in Istanbul, as it usually happens, there are no sneakers left from the leader of the champion team in Partizan.

Beck’s tandem Sasha-Sasha moved to Italy. Danilović in Bologna, and Đorđević in Milan. Ivo Nakic returned to Cibona. The talented Drobnjak, Glintić, Nesterović and Berić, Obradović joined the first team.

Due to the imposed sanctions on Yugoslavia, Partizan lost the right to defend the won Euroleague and thus became and remained the only team in history that did not get the opportunity to tie two European trophies, although it deserved that right by winning the domestic championship.

Whoever fights for three, suffers from three

That luck turned its back on Partizan was seen in the championship matches with the eternal rival – from the weapons that the black and whites heroically tackled in the final of Istanbul last season, they suffered bitterly in two league matches with the Red Star.

Nikola Lončar’s missed triple for equalization in the first and Aleksandar Trifunović hit from the half of the field for the victory in the second, announced the troubles that Partizan will have with Zvezda’s generation Obradović, Ilić, Jovanović, Trifunović …

Through Spartak Subotica in the semifinals, Partizan advanced to the finals, where Zvezda was waiting again. While Nikola Lončar imposed himself as the new leader of the team, twice the black and whites equalized in the final series, but the red and whites celebrated in the championship and won the title after 20 years of waiting.

Previously, Partizan was left without the trophy of the winner of the Yugoslav Cup, as it lost in the final in Kosovska Mitrovica to OKK Belgrade 104: 91, led by Zoran Radović, then a veteran who was bringing his career to an end.

Return home after almost 30 years

The season without trophies in Partizan did not spoil the impression that Zeljko Obradovic left on the Spaniards in Istanbul. He went to Juventud and, like Partizan, won the European title in the first year, the second of his nine.

Partizan was closest to repeating Obradović’s feat in 1998, when Milovan Kime Bogojević took over the team from Miroslav Muta Nikolić in the middle of the season and took him to the final four in Barcelona in 2010, when Duško Vujošević’s team lost in the Euroleague semifinals after overtime. from Olympiacos.

The partisans are waiting to return to the roof of Europe, and at least one precondition is now there – Zeljko Obradovic returned.

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June 17, 2021 – 01:20

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Albanian defender, Emiliano Musta, has become a new team, writes Zeri.info.

Musta left Laçi days ago until he has already signed a two-year contract for the Partizan Tirana team.

Musta has joined Partizan in training.

The 29-year-old became Partizan’s first approach in this summer market.

The defender signed for two years, receiving a salary of 4 thousand euros per month.

Along with the bonuses, Musta is expected to receive about 45 thousand euros per year, which leads to a total of 90 thousand euros for two seasons, writes “Panorama”.

Kosovar teams, Gjilan and Balkans are also interested in the services of the left defender. /Zeri.info

In addition to those two duels, eight more matches of the 28th round will be played, and the matches Spartak – TSC and Radnički Niš – Voždovac could be singled out as the most interesting.

Schedule of the 28th round: Metalac – Napredak 2: 2, Saturday: Backa – Partizan, Radnicki Nis – Vozdovac, Spartak – TSC, Zlatibor – Javor (15:00), Crvena zvezda – Mladost (19:00). Sunday: Macva – Cukaricki, Novi Pazar – Proleter, Rad – Radnik, Vojvodina – Indjija (3 pm).

Table: Red Star 77 points, Partizan 68, Vojvodina 54, Cukaricki 52, Spartak 43, Radnik 42, Proleter 42, TSC 41, Radnicki Nis 38, Metalac 37, Vozdovac 33, Mladost 33, Javor 30, Novi Pazar 30, Napredak 28 , Rad 27, Indjija 26, Zlatibor 21, Macva 20, Backa 15.