{"id":501997,"date":"2026-06-21T14:35:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=501997"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:35:55","slug":"panathinaikos-announce-zeljko-obradovic-s-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/panathinaikos-announce-zeljko-obradovic-s-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Panathinaikos announce Zeljko Obradovic &#8216;s return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panathinaikos officially announced the return of Zeljko Obradovic as head coach, with the two sides agreeing to a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The club accompanied the announcement with a photo of Obradovic alongside owner Dimitris Giannakopoulos and the caption:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;As if not a single day had passed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Obradovic returns to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/report-zeljko-obradovic-agrees-to-return-to-panathinaikos-on-three-year-deal\/\">Athens powerhouse<\/a> where he built one of the greatest dynasties in European basketball, adding another chapter to his historic relationship with the club.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"el\">\u00ab\u03a3\u03b1\u03bd \u03bd\u03b1 \u03bc\u03b7\u03bd \u03c0\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03b5 \u03bc\u03b9\u03b1 \u03bc\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>\u039f \u03a0\u03b1\u03bd\u03b1\u03b8\u03b7\u03bd\u03b1\u03ca\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 \u03b1\u03bd\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u03b9\u03bd\u03ce\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u0396\u03ad\u03bb\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf \u039f\u03bc\u03c0\u03c1\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf\u03b2\u03b9\u03c4\u03c2 \u03b3\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b1 \u03b5\u03c0\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b1 3 \u03c7\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd\u03b9\u03b1.<\/p>\n<p>\u0397 \u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c1\u03af\u03b1 \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b5\u03c7\u03af\u03b6\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/paobcaktor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#paobcaktor<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HGASN7KzxT\">pic.twitter.com\/HGASN7KzxT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Panathinaikos BC (@Paobcgr) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Paobcgr\/status\/2068659350885814426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Serbian coach signed a 3-year deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":501996,"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":[199,249],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-501997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-greece","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/06\/giannakopoulos-obradovic.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501997","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501997"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=501997"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=501997"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=501997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}