DAZN, the leading global sports streaming platform, offers all basketball fans the exciting Final Four of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, which will take place starting tomorrow at the Stark Arena in Belgrade. The first semifinal, scheduled for 6:00 p.m., features Olympiacos and Anadolu Efes, current champion of the highest continental competition. And from 9:00 p.m., the ‘Clásico’ between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid will be played, with the clear objective for both of achieving a place in the grand final, which will be played on Saturday, May 21, at 7:00 p.m. The Blaugrana team reaches this Final Four after eliminating Bayern Munich in the fifth game of the quarterfinals, while the madridistas easily got rid of Maccabi Tel Aviv by a resounding 3-0. All the matches of the most important sporting event in European basketball can be followed live and on demand on DAZN.
The Yabusele factor
One of the great duels of the match between culés and meringues will be the one that the madridista has Guerschon Yabusele with Nikola Miroticstar of Barcelona, something that does not scare the white player: “It is clear that it is never easy, but I have to be prepared. I just have to focus on what I have to do. In every match, I try to read the game and be the best player possible to help my team. I know it’s going to be really important to stop him, so I’m going to go out with a lot of confidence to stop him.”
Yabusele also stressed in the interview with Piti Hurtado that winning the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague would be a dream: “I would say that it is something I dream of, for sure. For me, it is my second year in the Euroleague and being able to go to the Final Four is a dream, it’s amazing. So to be able to win it would be amazing, it’s going to be a huge achievement for everyone on the team.“.
Although in the semifinal they face FC Barcelona, a team considered by many to be the great favorite to win the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, the Frenchman assures Rumble in the paint who feel ready to eliminate them: “You have to beat Barcelona. In the semi-finals or in the final, we knew we were going to meet them, and we already know what it is. Out of six games, we have lost five, so we know what we have to do do, we know how they are going to play, we know what they are doing. I think we are ready, we are thirsty for revenge and we want to win this game, because if we win and eliminate them, people are not going to think about those five games that we have lost. Of course we want to beat them, but we will also try to reach the final and win it. It’s going to be a ‘war’. there will be many hits. So, after the first blow, you can’t think of the same plan again. After the first blow, you have to return it and that’s how we have to react. I think the ‘Clasico’ is going to be a great game, it’s going to be a very close and very tough game, and it’s going to be incredible for the fans to watch”.
a defined future
Yabusele, despite having played in the NBA after passing through the Boston Celtics, admits that Real Madrid has nothing to envy the North American franchises: “I remember the first day, when I signed, I arrived here, I arrived at the facilities and I looked at everything as if it were incredible. These types of facilities are NBA and I never saw them in Europe. She had never been here, so I was impressed with her. And from that day on, I told my agent: ‘I’m going to try to stay here for a long time, I’m going to give it my all.’ On the court I am giving everything and I try to do the best I can. So I think the fans pick up on it and see that I leave it all on the pitch, maybe that’s why they like me.”
