{"id":451435,"date":"2025-07-15T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=451435"},"modified":"2025-07-15T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:00:21","slug":"bodiroga-backs-belgrade-for-2026-final-four-says-stark-arena-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/bodiroga-backs-belgrade-for-2026-final-four-says-stark-arena-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodiroga backs Belgrade for 2026 Final Four, says Stark Arena director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1222\" data-end=\"1437\">According to <strong data-start=\"1250\" data-end=\"1267\">Goran Grbovi\u0107<\/strong>, director of <strong data-start=\"1281\" data-end=\"1296\">Stark Arena<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1298\" data-end=\"1337\">EuroLeague president Dejan Bodiroga<\/strong> pushed for <strong data-start=\"1349\" data-end=\"1361\">Belgrade<\/strong> to host the <strong data-start=\"1374\" data-end=\"1393\">2026 Final Four<\/strong>. The final vote is expected on <strong data-start=\"1425\" data-end=\"1436\">July 22<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1439\" data-end=\"1584\"><strong data-start=\"1439\" data-end=\"1461\">Athens\u2019 OAKA Arena<\/strong> remains a contender, but Panathinaikos owner <strong data-start=\"1507\" data-end=\"1535\">Dimitris Giannakopoulos\u2019<\/strong> behavior may influence clubs to vote against it.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1586\" data-end=\"1776\">Grbovi\u0107 stressed that Belgrade&#8217;s arena can welcome <strong data-start=\"1637\" data-end=\"1652\">16,500 fans<\/strong>, compared to 12,500 in Athens, and added that Serbia \u201cdeserves\u201d a Final Four after being passed over for Abu Dhabi in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dejan Bodiroga reportedly proposed Belgrade as host. OAKA and Giannakopoulos remain key factors in the decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":451434,"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":[82],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-451435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/Dejan-Bodiroga.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451435","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=451435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451435"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=451435"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=451435"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=451435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}