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Eurobasket 2005 Belgrade

Hello and welcome to new and redesigned unofficial fansite of European basketball championship as well as fansite related to all basketball related information including Euroleague, NBA and NCAA events.

As you probably know, EC 2005 took place in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, and that was the inspiration for this site, it's domain name and topics. This site was initially dedicated only to European Championship 2005 coverage, but since we had a great response from visitors we decided to turn it into a tribute to this great event that will be remembered as one of the best European Basketball Championships in history. In addition we started covering other interesting basketball related events including information about world's best basketball leagues - Euroleague, NBA and NCAA.

Thanks to our sponsors during Eurobasket 2005 we were able to give away 20 tickets for all games including semi-finals and final game, 10 hotel rooms in Belgrade, 5 free air tickets to Belgrade from any destination in europe, 100 basketball jerseys from national teams that took part in Eurobasket 2005.

We are happy to keep this site alive even after Eurobasket 2005 - as a permanent online tribute to this great event. Thanks to you we will keep memory to one of the best European Basketball Championships Ever!

Featured Article: Belgrade Basketball Festivities

The 1975 European Championship, with its final round in the Belgrade arena "Pionir", succeeded to join the three elements – the supreme play of "Plavi", the magnificent audience and an outstanding TV production – what resulted in an unforgettable basketball spectacle.

For the first time, the Yugoslavians won against the Soviet Union in a great Final (90:84). Previously, in Barcelona, in 1973, the Spaniards ejected the USSR from the fight for the gold medal and assigned our players a "homework" - to confirm the title without anyone's help. And it was on the 15th of July that this very act was performed with dangerously tied result in the last moments of the game.

Yugoslavia: Rato Tvrdic, Dragan Kicanovic 22, Vinko Jelovac 9, Rajko Zizic 3, Zeljko Jerkov 1, Dragan Kapicic, Zoran Slavnic 12, Kresimir Cosic 16, Damir Solman 2, Nikola Plecas 8, Drazen Dalipagic 11, Mirza Delibasic 6. Coaches: Mirko Novosel – Branislav Rajacic.

USSR: Boljsakov, Pavlov, Miloserdov, Saljnikov 17, Bolosev, Jedesko 14, Sergej Belov 29, Sidjakin, Zarmuhamedov 4, Korkija 5, Aleksandar Belov 9, Zigili 6. Coaches: Kondrasin – Baskin.

The Organizing Committee of the 19th European Championship (7-15 June) was composed as follows: Miljenko Zrelec, President, Nebojsa Popovic, Deputy President, Vladimir Cvetkovic, Vice... Full Belgrade Basketball Festivities article...

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