{"id":327001,"date":"2023-04-19T14:36:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=327001"},"modified":"2023-04-19T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:38:03","slug":"zeljko-obradovic-im-at-partizan-and-i-promised-the-fans-that-i-would-be-here-for-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/zeljko-obradovic-im-at-partizan-and-i-promised-the-fans-that-i-would-be-here-for-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeljko Obradovic: I’m at Partizan and I promised the fans that I would be here for three years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zeljko Obradovic gave a lengthy interview to Sport24<\/a>. Here are some excerpts:<\/p>\n

“Partizan fans have always been like this. Now it’s a special situation because we returned to the EuroLeague after 8 years, and that certainly matters a lot.”<\/p>\n

“I don’t know. I have been a coach for more than 30 years. I try to do my job in the best possible way, with respect, both towards my players and anyone else, in any kind of organization. That’s how things are. I try to work very hard on the court because I believe it’s good for everyone. In the end, we all have the same goal in front of us.”<\/p>\n

“This rivalry that exists is good for the sport. If everything is done within the sports framework and with fair play, it’s fine. We prepare these games in a very specific way, but we always talk about basketball.”<\/p>\n

“Yes, it’s very competitive, and you can see that. No one is sure. It’s a tough competition for everyone. All the teams are trying to have a good roster, and all have goals.”<\/p>\n

“Yes, Olympiacos plays very well, very, very well. All the teams have their ups and downs, even Olympiacos. They show everyone, though, that they have a very good team and play as a team, they really play as a team.”<\/p>\n

“I am not the right person to talk about this. I don’t know. Everyone knows that I have a special relationship with Panathinaikos and that I always wish them the best, always.”<\/p>\n

“This is not a question for me or Dimitris. It’s a question that everyone should discuss. I don’t know, you’re asking me something. Do you know what the format will be like next season or in two years? How can we discuss something like this? It’s not a matter for you and me. It’s a matter that concerns the people who work in the EuroLeague organization and decide on all these things.<\/p>\n

Of course, they need the opinion of everyone who is important in our sport because we all want the competition to be even better than it is now, which is already a very good competition. We’re talking about how the competition is this year, very tough, with interesting games that are decided in the last minute. That means we have a very competitive competition. In the future, we want it to be the same. How it will be is a matter to be discussed by those who understand basketball and especially those who run these projects for the EuroLeague.”<\/p>\n

“No, because now I’m at Partizan and I promised the fans that I would be here for three years. This is my second year, and I have nothing else on my mind, not Greece, not anything else. I never think like that. I don’t know how others think. If I’m here, my focus and everything else is on Partizan. There’s too much time to think about something like that. I have a game on Friday, a game on Sunday, Tuesday, and again on Friday and Monday. So how can I think about something like that?”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zeljko Obradovic gave a lengthy interview to Sport24. Here are some excerpts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":321044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[87,82,73],"tags":[1616,1439],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-327001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aba-liga","category-euroleague","category-serbia","tag-kk-partizan","tag-zeljko-obradovic-3"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/318DBBAE-84B1-4E7B-BB0C-763ED3E3ECD7.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327001"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=327001"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=327001"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=327001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}