By Niki Bakouli/ bakouli@eurohoops.net
Besides USA, the only country which have at least one representative in every team roster of the Euroleague Final Four is Serbia. To be exact, CSKA Moscow has Milos Teodosic and Nenad Krstic, FC Barcelona Regal has Kosta Perovic, Olympiacos has Marko Keselj and Panathinaikos has Aleks Maric (he was born in Serbia and raised in Australia). This is one of our quick facts, you won’t read anywhere else.
13 are the countries which have at least one representative at this Final Four. Because of Greece’s dynamic duo, this is the country with most representatives (17), with USA coming second (10) and Russia third (9).
10 are the most players with the same nationality that you can find in the same roster (Olympiacos), with two more teams having nine compatriots (Panathinaikos -without Fotis Zoumpos, who didn’t play this year, even for one second- and CSKA Moscow).
7 countries (Spain, Brazil, Senegal, Slovenia, Serbia, Australia and USA) have at least one guy on FC Barcelona Regal’s roster, but this team is not a Babel’s Tower! The other three teams have representatives from five different countries in their rosters.
26.6 years is the average age of Olympiacos‘ roster, the youngest of the four finalists. CSKA Moscow is second (27.8), FC Barcelona Regal is third (28.4) and Panathinaikos fourth (29.8).
2.02 m is the average height of the tallest team and it’s CSKA Moscow which lead this category. FC Barcelona Regal is at No2 (2.009), Panathinaikos at No3 (2.007) and Olympiacos at No4 (2.004).
1.83 m is the height of the shortest player and his name is Josep Perez (FC Barcelona Regal), with Panathinaikos’ David Logan coming a close second (1.84). Olympiacos and CSKA Moscow don’t have a player shorter than 1.92 m.
2.17 m is the height of the tallest player. Kosta Perovic (FC Barcelona Regal) is two cm taller than Andreas Glyniadakis (Olympiacos, 2.15), three cm than Dmitry Sokolov (CSKA Moscow, 2.14) and six cm than Vougioukas-Maric (Panathinaikos, 2.11).
17 years old is the youngest player. As a matter of fact, Josep Perez (FC Barcelona Regal) will be an adult at 11th of May! He is three years younger than the second on this list (Dimitrios Katsivelis, Olympiacos, 21).
36 years old is the oldest player you will see at Sinan Erdem and we are talking about Sarunas Jasikevicius (Panathinaikos). The second oldest guy is Boni Dong ( (FC Barcelona Regal), who will be 35 on the 3rd of September.