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This years Euroleague Basketball has started. Slovenian team from Ljubljana, Union Olimpija is participating in group D along with FC Barcelona Regal (SPA), Montepaschi Siena (ITA), Asseco Prokom (POL) and Unics (RUS). Some friends decided to join me at the game in Arena Stožice.

Warm Up in bar Lepa Žoga

Ticket with 20% discount, thanks Primož

Tuši, Dejan, Klemen, Tjaša, Primož, Vučće and Žiga @ the game

Our guys started good and after 4 minutes we were leading 10:5. But unfortunately that was it. Barcelona started to show their power and in the end they won for 22 points.

Final score:
UNION OLIMPIJA - BARCELONA 64:86 (19:24, 11:17, 21:20, 13:25)

Green      17        Huertas    17
Varda      16        Mickeal    15
Thompson    9        Vazquez    10
Woodside    5        Navarro     9
Markota     5        Lorbek      7
Blažič      4        Perović     6
Rothbart    4        Ingles      6
Ćapin       2        Ndong       6
Murić       2        Eidson      6
                     Wallace     4

Cheerleaders

And today, it was also a sad day for Slovenian sport. One of our best Slovenian handball players, Iztok Puc,  of all times lost his battle with lung cancer, only 45 years old.

Iztok Puc...

...and his masterpiece in EHF finals 1993, when he was playing for Zagreb.