By Yiannis Bouranis/ info@eurohoops.net
Panathinaikos is the only team in Euroleague history that has won the hosts in the Final-Four championship game. Zeljco Obradovic and Ibrahim Kutluay remember the triumph over Kinder Bologna in 2002 in Bologna.
Only one team has won the hosts of the Final Four and that team is Panathinaikos, which beat Kinder Bologna in 2002.
“Before the Final-Four, everybody was saying Kinder was the favourite to win the trophy. And it was logical based on their roster,” said Obradovic, who remembered his second European title with the Greens.
For his own part, Kutluay said in the Euroleague magazine: “Nobody was expecting that. We had a good team and good coach. The most important thing was that I was the first player from Turkey that played in Greece and won the Euroleague. This was the reason that I went to Greece to play for Panathinaikos.”
As a matter of fact, Ibo revealed that Obradovic talked to him privately and boosted his confidence.
Here is the video with their memories from Bologna: