Olympiacos and Crvena Zvezda: Brotherly love

2016-12-20T15:48:24+00:00 2016-12-20T15:48:24+00:00.

Aris Barkas

20/Dec/16 15:48

Eurohoops.net

In most cases a Euroleague game may bring up an interesting rivarly, but tonight at the Peace and Friendship Stadium of Piraeus we have a story of brotherly love

By Stelios Toromanidis/ info@eurohoops.net

In most cases a Euroleague game may bring up an interesting rivarly, but tonight at the Peace and Friendship Stadium of Piraeus we have a story of brotherly love.

Olympiacos and Crvena Zvezda don’t share only the same colours, but their social background was also similar and since 1986 and football game of Crvena Zvezda against Panathinaikos – the “eternal rival” of Olympiacos – the Ultras of the two teams have been connected and fraternized.

Olympiacos has played just three basketball games against Crvena Zvezda, the Greeks have won them all, but this is just a footnote.

Here’s what happened on the 7th of November 2014 at Belgrade with the Serbian fans sining in Greek the trademark Olympiacos fans’ chant “something magical”.

The two clubs are also connected by 10 players and a coach, Dragan Sakota, who have been members of both teams. And there’s also Milos Teodosic, a notorious fan of Crvena Zvezda – you can see him cheering for Zvezda alongside Darko Milicic in a football game – who also made his name in the European top level with Olympiacos.

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Here are the players and the coach connecting the two clubs

name position Seasons in Olympiacos Seasons in Crvena Zvezda
Dragan Tarlac center 1992-2000 1990-1992
Dusan Vukcevic Forward 1997-2001, 2004 1993-1995
Dusan Jelic center 2001-2002 1991-1992, 2000-2001
Sofoklis Schortsanitis center 2005-2010 2015
Vrbica Stefanov point guard 2006-2007 2006
Scoonie Penn  point guard 2006-2007, 2010 2002-2003
Lorence Roberts Forward 2007 * 2008-2009
Igor Milocevic guard 2008-2009 2005-2008
Marco Keselj Forward 2010-2012 2008-2010
Pero Antic Forward 2011-2013 2005-2007
Dragan Sakota coach 2003-2004 2005-2007

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