Basketball: Wide chest in Bavaria before the EuroCup:”have character”.

Bayern Munich’s basketball players are confidently entering the EuroCup quarter-finals against Russia’s top club Unics Kasan,”We’ve proven in the past few weeks that we have the character to face such challenges,”said coach Sasa Djordjevic before the kick-off on Tuesday evening (20.30) in Munich.

Two victories are needed in the best-of-three series to advance. On Friday (18:00) we continue in Kazan, the third game would be played on 14. March (20.30 o’ clock) in the Audi Dome in Munich.

“Unics played in the EuroLeague last season and always had the goal of returning to the EuroCup victory,”warns Djordjevic. The winner of the title automatically qualifies for the royal class, Kazan won the EuroCup in 2011 and was in the final in 2014.

“The task is very difficult,”says Djordjevic. Bayern-Guard Nihad Djedovic is also responding to problems for the Bundesliga front runner:”Kazan are a very good team and home strong, they have a lot of experienced players. It will be a very hard series for us:” At the start of the series, Bavaria will serve 1000 litres of free beer to their fans about two weeks after the triumph in the German Cup.