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| 09-05-2003: After the Euroleague semi-final at Barcelona |
| “We were afraid of the game. With the defense of the first period we wouldn’t have won the juniors of Benetton”. |
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| 29-04-2003: Almost three months after he left Greece he talks to www.Telebesket.com |
| “The only thing I wanted from AEK was respect after seven years of great effort. I couldn’t do anything to change the situation, so I decided to put an end and move to Siena”. |
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| 04-01-2003: After AEK’s win against Panathinaikos by 63-41 |
| “We tried to prove on court that we are the champions. Outside the court…” |
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| 21-12-2002: Olympiakos beats AEK by 66-71 and almost everybody believes that it was because of the referees. Mihalis says |
| “When you lose you can find many excuses, like the referees, blah, blah, blah. If we had played well, we wouldn’t have lost”. |
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| 28-11-2002: The National team has won 8/8 games at the qualifying games for the European Championship |
| “When the going gets tough, the tough get going. We will see in Sweden what we can do”. |
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| 22-11-2002: One day before the game against Romania he is interviewed by the Greek sports site www.sportline.gr |
| “Every time the National team is at the starting point, everybody is talking about a new chapter and etc. We will be judged in Sweden, after two… disasters in the last European Championships. Nobody can talk about my health. I am the only one |
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| 08-11-2002: About the fact that AEK uses the stadium of Lamia for the European games |
| “The champions of Greece cannot seem like a traveling theatre. We move around from one city to another”. |
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| 24-10-2002: After the game against TAU at OAKA |
| “We need our fans, we always say that. We play for them and they should come if they want to. Otherwise we will not die. If someone says that he is a fan of AEK, he must support the team at every sport. At least that is what I do”. |
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| 04-10-2002: After his participation at the European all star game of Madrid against Real |
| “It is the first time I take part at a game of this kind and I didn’t expect I would be the first scorer. Playing next to such great players satisfied me anyway. I felt well from the warm up, in front of the crowd and after the presentation of |
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| 19-08-2002: The first training of the season 2002-2003 he gives the first notice |
| “I don’t know if I will continue playing for AEK. I have got time to think, there are two months ahead of us”. |
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| 05-06-2002: The fifth final against Olympiakos has ended and AEK is the champion |
| “The fans of AEK didn’t come here today to see AEK play basketball, they came for the championship. We didn’t need them for the championship, we needed them so that we could reach this point. After 0-2 the usual 1.500 came to see us. Any |
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| 21-05-2002: Before the first final against Olympiakos |
| “ If the fans like to come here and yell about Bajevic and Nikolaidis, they better not come. If they want to help us it is ok, otherwise they should stay home. Anyway, we are used to playing in front of… nobody”. |
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| 17-04-2002: AEK is in the same group as Panathinaikos, Olympiakos and Olympia and doesn’t manage to reach the Final Four of the Euroleague in Bologna. |
| “We had to make it, but besides the good basketball we do not do some things outside the court, that other teams do. The teams must learn not to play games behind the back of the players. It is unfair…” |
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| 05-03-2002: At the official site of Euroleague |
| “I like taking the responsibility at the end of the game and killing the opponent with a shot. I did it four times last year and I will continue doing it. If I get the ball, I pity my opponents. I am a born shooter. I respect the job of the coaches, |
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| 01-10-2001: AEK beats Olympiakos at the regular season |
| “We were judged very strictly after our disqualification form the Greek Cup by Panionios. We expected it. We also expected that if we lost by Olympiakos only my mother and my aunt would come and see us. Anyway, these 1000-1500 fans always create som |
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| 30-06-2001: After he signed a new four-year contract with AEK |
| “I was rewarded for my efforts. I deserved this contract”. |
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| 06-03-2001: About the shots of the last moment |
| “The most important thing is to believe. Against Panionios the only thing I thought was that I will make it. I know that it is like balancing on a rope, because the chances I have to succeed are as many as to fail. But I never think about the last&# |
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| 05-03-2001: Thanks to a buzzer beater by Mihalis, AEK wins Panionios at Nea Smirni by 78-79 |
| “Someone had to do it, someone had to score. So, it was Mihalis’ hand”. |
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| 21-02-2001: AEK beats Benetton 97-89 after overtime. Mihalis was the one who tied the game |
| “The ones who left before the end are very lucky. They would have had a heart attack if they stayed”. |
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| 29-10-2000: AEK offers the players a 20% reduction of their salaries, otherwise some of them will have to be cut. Gurt Humming is probably one of them. At a press conference Ivkovic reveals what Mihalis told him about the situation |
| “I don’t know if AEK will be saved if we accept the reduction. I know that Hamming has kids. And we cannot continue like everything is ok if he leaves”. |
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| 12-04-2000: After 32 years AEK wins a European trophy in Lausanne. After the win against Kinder Bologna in the final by 83-76 Mihalis dedicates the cup |
| …”to my family and Nikos Galis. He didn’t win a European trophy because of some circumstances. However, he has a part of everything that the Greek teams have won and will win in the future”. |
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