{"id":498067,"date":"2026-05-23T15:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=498067"},"modified":"2026-05-23T15:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:09:57","slug":"bartzokas-against-real-madrid-it-will-be-a-real-battle-but-i-think-we-are-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/bartzokas-against-real-madrid-it-will-be-a-real-battle-but-i-think-we-are-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartzokas: “Against Real Madrid it will be a real battle, but I think we are ready”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coach Georgios Bartzokas<\/span><\/span> introduced the 2026 EuroLeague Final, which will see his Olympiacos<\/span><\/span> face Real Madrid Baloncesto<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Bartzokas said<\/strong>: \u201cThe best moments of our careers are priceless. One of those is having the opportunity to play in a final, especially against a great club like Real Madrid. It will be a real battle, as it has always been in the past. We are excited. I do not need to hide it. We believe we deserve to be here. Of course, Real Madrid deserve the same as well.<\/p>\n

I think we are ready. We have this day to prepare our minds, our bodies, and tactically adjust to what Real Madrid will put on the court. I cannot wait for the game to begin.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Coach Bartzokas shared his thoughts ahead of the 2026 EuroLeague Final, describing the matchup against Real Madrid as a special moment and expressing confidence in his team\u2019s preparation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":445669,"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":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-498067","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\/06\/bartzokas-5-1200x800-1.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498067","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498067"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=498067"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=498067"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=498067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}