Euroleague target Berlin: Bavaria

For success, Andrea Trinchieri wanted to drink an Olympic Pool Full of Red Wine and treat each other a cigar. Before the next major Europe adventure of the basketball player of FC Bayern Munich, the rhetorical creative chef coach has already the next strong pictures in the head. He compared the upcoming season with Euroleague Hatz with the Giro d Italia of the bike professionals. Every Italian has a bike, everyone knows the Giro and there are many racing stages, Trinchieri said, even Italians. But of importance is only the stadium vigarello , the destination in Milan.

For the ambitious Munich club, who wants to move up to the international top after football in basketball, the specially issued Giro destination: Berlin. In the city of the national permanent Alba, the Final Four of the Euroleague has reached from 27 to 29 May 2022, which has not yet reached a German club and that Bayern missed in the past season only hair-sharp.

Our goal is clear to go the next step. To further strengthen the team to reach our goal, then to reach European tops in the duration, said President Herbert Hainer. Until Berlin is the way but a further. Starting with the starting game on Thursday (20:05) at Maccabi Tel Aviv, the 18er league initially attributable 34 preliminary round games before the eight best teams qualify for the quarter-finals. Only then is it in playoff series immediately around the Berlin tickets.

Trinchieri wants not in the trap

To the ambitious goals said Hainer: We are on the right way. I am very confident that we create the way to the European top. Red wine gene Trinchieri does not want to be able to measure on concrete goals for such an early season. We want to be better every day, knowledgeable that the result is not always a direct consequence of this. I will not fall in the trap and only one goal is at the center, said the 53-year-old.

Although National Last twice Alba Berlin Master became, the Munich has developed a kind of supremacy last decade. FC Bayern is financially strongest and has the best squad. For the year 2022, the move to the new Arena in the Olympic Park is also planned. I can enjoy that. The SAP Garden is opened, I m proud now, said basketball fan Uli Hoeneß recently in the Bayerischer Rundfunk . With managing director Marko Pesic, the long-standing maker of the footballers sees itself according to their own statement blind .

Alba does not plan participation in the final tournament in Berlin

The feeling of the preseason, as Bavaria in the quarter-finals against Milan only failed in the fifth and decisive game just failed, Pesic wants to repeat now. And maybe together with our fans. That s what Last year was clearly missing, said the ex player who spoke of an eerie motivation . New obligations such as Darrun Hilliard, Deshaaun Thomas and Andreas Fruit ensure that the bid look even more strongly.

The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) also hopes for a good advertising of the Munich. If you look at the squad, this clearly illustrates European ambitions. The top is tight. I think the opportunities for giving, but will do the devil, to spend a goal or a claim, said Managing Director Stefan Wood. Alba Berlin also plays in the Euroleague, the final tournament even has in its own city. An entry into the Final Four you did not plan in the budget, Marco Baldi, managing director of the Berliner revealed.