Yes, you have not seen the image that accompanies this news wrong. A basketball courtwithout being of the 3×3 modality, outdoor. The scenario in question is the mythical Tasmajdan Stadiumin Belgrade, which this Wednesday hosted a meeting of a more than friendly nature between a team that last year reached the Final Four of the Euroleague —Partisan— and another who lost the category in Spain and who this 23/24 campaign will perform in the LEB Oro —Fuenlabrada Basketball—.
To find the reasons for this you have to go back in time, as much as more than three decades. In 1991in full Balkan War, with the six former Yugoslav republics involved (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and North Macedonia), FIBA prohibited the Crno-Beli from continuing to compete in European competition at home. The same thing happened with the Free Dalmatia (former Jugoplastika and current KK Split) and the Cibona de Zagreb.
They all found shelter on Spanish soil. And, you can imagine, Partizan did it in the southern municipality of the Community of Madrid. Specifically, in the Fernando Martín Paviliona small court that in a certain way, and saving the distance, can remember the Pionir Hall, Partizan’s headquarters until it recently moved to the Štark Arena, with capacity for almost 20,000 spectators.
A Partizan – Fuenlabrada idyll that led the Serbs to conquer their first (and so far only) European Cup of basketball that looks in its showcases. A team with great prominence of the ‘Sashas’: Aleksandar Djordjević and Predrag Danilovićthis last MVP of the Final Four in which the Belgrade team beat Philips Milano in the semifinals and Montigalà Joventut (by Jordi Villacampa or Harold Pressley) in the final.
Brotherhood
Since then, both clubs have met only twice until this Wednesday. It was on an appointed date, on twentieth anniversary (2012) and thirtieth (2022) of that historic title. Of course, both duels had been held at the Fernando Martín, a situation that has not been repeated in 2023, with Partizan acting as host on an iconic field.
And venue built in 1954 and has hosted events of all kinds. For example, the 2016 Davis Cup tie between Serbia and Great Britain was held there, on clay. It has also hosted concerts. And this Wednesday a basketball match that filled the stands and in which the atmosphere of sportsmanship and respect prevailed.
“Deeply grateful to Fuenlabrada” could be read on one of the banners displayed in a sector of the stands. “We remember the year 1992,” it concluded. The result, the least. The ‘Partizan de Fuenlabrada’, with Punter, Leday or Ponitka, won 93-63.
Daniel Domínguez is an all-terrain journalist. Born in Madrid in 1999, he graduated in Journalism from the Carlos III University of Madrid and is facing his first major professional experience at Relevo. He grew up in ElGoldeMadriz, a medium that covers modest football in the Community of Madrid, where he trained close to the protagonists in the environment in which he most likes to be: the regional football fields. So much so that he only has one team: Santa Ana, of which he is a proud fan. In 2020 and 2021 he was editor of the La Liga Brand Guide. But man does not live on bread alone and football is not the only thing he consumes. He is also passionate about sports and lacks screens to follow all the latest sports news. …
2023-09-14 05:02:56
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