On Wednesday, Široki’s basketball players welcome TFT Skopje in the first final game of the ABA 2 league. The match will be played at GSD Pecara starting at 20:30.
On the eve of the grand final, the match was announced by the president of HKK Široki at the press conference Ante Sutonhead coach Marian Bagaric and team captain Josip Bilinovac.
The missing cup
The team from Pecare great game throughout the season, and the proof of that is only one defeat in the regional competition from the first round against Sutjeska.
You know that we went quietly and humbly the whole season and we reached what we wished for, which is to play the final and to decide for ourselves whether we will finally to bring the missing trophy to our display casewhich is the winner’s cup of one of the ABA leagues. First the second goes and then the first goes, so now we are in that position to fight to win the ABA 2 league. As a club and the management, we are very satisfied with what we have done so far, because we are aware that this year we have slightly reduced the budget for the first team, that we have also included several of our juniors in the first team, who more or less participate in the first team, and then when these results coincide, that is beyond all our expectations, Suton said.
The president of the club added that Široki as a club that has 11 state championship titles and nine BiH Cup championship titles he has experience playing in decisive matches.
Ahead of us is a final that can go either way. Wide as a club has there rich experience which is important in sports. However, each new finale is a new story in itself. Of course, we also lost some finals, so we have experience of both outcomes.
As a club, we will do everything we can to make this final a fair and sporting battle.
I hope and am convinced that for this match there will be i the biggest visit in our hall. Yesterday we released tickets for presale and already somewhere over 30% of the hall’s capacity was sold out on the first day and we really expect that tomorrow our hall will be full or very well filled, continued Suton, addressing the fans who will follow the match live from the stands tomorrow.
Answered: If Široki wins ABA 2, will he really play in the ABA league?
I would only ask all those who are true basketball fans to be on time. We all know that parking is a problem here so they arrive in time to look for parking in these surrounding streets and I would ask for a fair sportsmanship for two reasons. The audience from Širobrije has long been known as such. And the second thing, it wouldn’t be good if any minor incident be at the game because we, as a club, don’t need that either, and we also know that the fines for throwing, for example, a lighter on the floor are very high. So I am also appealing in this way to the discipline of our fans. And God willing, let’s celebrate the first victory tomorrow because this first game is very important, club president Ante Suton told the gathered media.
The goal is clear
Team coach Marijan Bagarić he revealed his expectations for the first game against TFT.
HKK Široki coach Marijan Bagarić
I think the final can go to both sides of the game. However, we are preparing and will do our best to celebrate once again here on home soil. Whether we prepared well or not, we will see tomorrow night. They really they have very high-quality foreigners and domestic players who really give their all, especially Tashovski, who has been on the rise lately, Zafirov, and then all these practically four Americans which also have Govens and I won’t list them now. Everyone is a definite threat, really. However, based on their individual team qualities, we do the preparation. The goal is the goal, to hide their virtues and express their flaws just as they will do against us, Bagarić said.
Herzegovina deserves an ABA league member
Captain Josip Bilinovac, about 12 years ago, in the 2013/14 season. he played in Široki’s jersey in the ABA league as an extremely young basketball player. Široki was then relegated from the first ABA league, and now he has discovered what it feels like to play a game today that brings an eventual return to the ABA league and winning the second basketball ABA league.
Captain HKK Široki Josip Bilinovac
Unfortunately, I was part of that team where we entered the season well, and at the end we were relegated. It’s really been a long time since then and I was out maybe two seasons after that, but wherever I was, I always followed Široki. Široki deserves to play in that ABA league because that tradition and the people who lead the club and who give themselves to it, as well as the whole community – I will not say only Široki, but also Herzegovina – deserves an ABA leaguer. I hope that we will do our best, so God willing, said Bilinovac.
From a player’s perspective, Bilinovac said what kind of visiting team he expects.
Surely this TFT team deserves it really all respect and the very fact that they are there with us in the final shows that it is a serious team and I think they are a well-rounded team. They have a lot of good individual players and that certain individual quality. Those foreign players really bring that quality and we mostly follow, scout, watch, we know what they are like. We should really respect them and we will try to prepare as best as possible to stop where they are the strongest, added the captain of the home team.
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