European Member Intro Thread

[ThugLife]

Hey! Dimitris from Athens
18 years old
Bb freak (football league sucks here in gr )
Pure red fan
thats all.... nice to see u all

[žarko]

žarko.27 years old.a lawyer in Novi sad.
I played in Vojvodina junior team from the age of 15-19, i was captain of the team for the last year and just before the end of the season i had a very rough knee injury that forced me to be out for a year,after a hard year i saw that its not the same and i lost my touch for the game and decided to retire.
went to Northwestern University in the states and finished my Degree in laws.
still playing for the fun in a semi pro team.

[ziv]

wellcome zarko - nice to have some more serbains here.
i personally have to say i realy had fun in novi-sad in the EC2005...

[Straight forward]

Hi, my real name is Laurynas, i'm from Lithuania (KAUNAS). I'm 23 years old and deeply into basketball since 11 maby. it's nice to discover such a forrum like this, because people here seems to be intelligent and international tone makes this forrum so alive. it's great to have opportunity to talk with fans of different countries and it makes 'basketball business' even more significant. Cheers!

[xexakis]

Greetings to all Bball lovers

Hi to all,
I am Panos, Greek but work in Paris (mba, pharmacist). I am 31 and play bball since 1987. Have played in Greece (Athens-Salonica), France (Paris-Strasbourg) & USA (Philadelphia).
In the past I preferred watching NBA. Nowadays European League and NT events.
Although am AEK Athens' supporter, I personally enjoy watching and cheering for all teams that bring quality and promote bball.
this forum has attracted many people with deep knowledge for bball that gives a good insight of their supporting clubs and countries of origin.
cu
panos

[Manu Ginobili]

AEK Fan?!
I didnt know they have ones..
Welcome Panos!

[xexakis]

well yes, why not?

AEK Fan?!
I didnt know they have ones..
Welcome Panos!

thx for the welcome

well yes, I am one of the few. It is said that all of us together fit in a single bus.
When the difficult era of skinny cows arrives many people abandon the ship. It is really sad what happens to the team nowadays.

Hopefully the beginning of the new start for AEK will come soon. Like in the late 60s when AEK was playing outdoors in Panathinaiko Stadium with 60.000 fans. Those days might come back......
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[lafa]

hi everyone,

I'm 31 and I'm from Vilnius, Lithuania. Despite that fact I'm Zalgiris fan, always was, always will be... Started watching games at age of 7... Those famous Zalgiris-CSKA series back in the days, when Sabonis was 18-19.. Civilis was alive and kicking (rip)... and Jovaisa was still known not for his "comments" or coaching abilities (no offence, Sergejus...), but for his partying habits and defensive abilities.. Even though I'm a die hard Zalgiris fan, I'll root for any other lithuanian team, should it be Siauliai, Rytas, Neptunas or any other, while they play against foreign clubs (Go Real!... or TAU! We really want Rytas to be in EL next season!).

I like balanced kind of game. I love players who can create their own shots (Siskauskas, Stombergas, Anthony Parker, Spanoulis) and dislike the ones, that play out of their position (Papaloukas - almost PF playing as PG, Lavrinovic brothers - C/PF playing as SF, Ginevicius - playing basketball... )

I respect other people's opinions, so I expect others to respect mine too... and I do believe, that I have a right to change my opinion at any given point of time

I've been reading this forum for a 3-4 years now. I'm not a very active writer, but I'm a very active reader.

[Stojakovic]

Hi from Turkiye.

This is Dincer.

nice to be here.

regards,

[stas]

Hi all
I am Stas form Poland, Sopot
Cheers

[Migelitas]

Hi, my name is Mindaugas, one more fan from Lithuania

[sashikas]

Hi, my name is Mindaugas, one more fan from Lithuania

Are you the same Mindaugas, who could be met on basketball.ru?

[Migelitas]

Are you the same Mindaugas, who could be met on basketball.ru?

yes, it is me

[sashikas]

yes, it is me

Welcome to IBN!

[raph]

Aloha everyone. French guy of 30 springs and already 5 autumns here

I am from Le Mans, a city from which Le Mans Sarthe Basket is historically one of the best french teams (won several championships in the 75ies-85ies and it was started in the 40ies) that just recovered a good status in french league in the past years.
Even though when someone speaks about Le Mans, it concerns generally racing and the 24 hours we still have a real basketball culture over there (it does not match baltic & ex yougo countries of course but it does exist).

Anyway, i am not especially fan of basketball (ouch eh, stop biting ) even less a basketball specialist/player like some may be but i am following my town's team since about 2 decades. And i do like good games and euroleague of course.

It's nice to be here and to see all the passion you all have for your teams and players, european basketball generally speaking. And i am looking forward to seeing le mans face the big challenge that yields into struggling against your armadas to advance into the EL competition.