Arbusers

arbusers wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 03, 2023 4:33 am

arb12 wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 02, 2023 11:06 pm

pkpunter wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 02, 2023 10:21 pm

Great Italian football culture, here man you are truly bringing out Jollys.
Will be the next video for Gianfranco Zola, another big ten of our times !?

C'mon, upload your memories... here in this thread, anyone is free to post her/his story that impressed her/him during the past.
And I hope eyewitnesses from any stadium describe her/his story.

The thing is that your thread is only focusing on Italian football. I m sure there are guys in the forum who would like to share stories from their own countries.

@ Arbusers,
You're right.

Admin, could you please change the thread title to your taste (or create a new thread, filling in all published opinions so far), so that everyone can upload their vivid childhood/teenage/youth memories of a sporting event in any country, any sport, not only football?

Thus, through this thread, the "Rest Area" subforum can serve as a virtual break/drinks in the virtual bar for a few minutes, during the pause of market/business discussions in other serious subforums on www.arbusers.com.

Thanks in advance.

The title is changed according to your request.

To celebrate this thread I am posting the finish of Gabriela Andersen in the 1984 Marathon Olympics.
I remember watching this as a little boy with my father. It was the moment I understood what the inner strength of human can achieve.

This video gave me goosebumps, and a rough estimation of your age.

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Sun Sep 03, 2023 11:50 am

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It was the moment I understood what the inner strength of human can achieve.

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What an inspiring video about the power of the human Spirit, thank you so much!

The most memorable Monaco Grand Prix of all time.
Olivier Panis & Ligier Team double win!
At that time I had not read The Black Swan Theory by Prof. Nassim Nicholas Taleb at all…
Jos "The Boss" Verstappen is also here...

Moscow Olympics 1980.

Wladislaw Kozakiewicz wins the Gold medal in pole vault and shows ''the arm'' (shown to 0.40 of the video) to a hostile audience who booed every non-Soviet athlete. Some of the audience were prisoners brought to make the stadium look packed.

He returns back home in Poland alive, but the Communists requested that he never competes again. Stripped of money, passport, job, and everything valuable, he escapes to West Germany and continues athleticism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qQ6FH1ikrA

Thanks little big man, how many satisfactions !!! Gianfranco

I would like to see Zidane, Messi and Ronaldo playing like this at 42 y.o. Do you remember Roger Milla?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrtWQSqD3A0

The emotional Mourinho criticized Roma's players for their away loss to Slavia Prague.

But in Calcio's golden glory days, there were notoriously temperamental legendary emotional Italian coaches who put their emotions into their everyday work. If you love tennis, do you remember the pseudo-angry way John McEnroe entertained the public, awaiting that behavior?
Now let's return to the Three Soccer Tenors who never worked in Teatro alla Scala Milan.

Wrath of the Titans 1st part. He's known as "Il Trap". What a Legend! He really likes classical music in his contemporary life outside Soccer and was one of the best Master Tacticians in the golden era of Italian Calcio, before his retirement. In case you remember the long-distance goals, scored by Lothar Matthäus, that manner was a routine exercise under Giovanni Trapattoni's management in Internazionale & Bayern.
Here's how he criticized his own team Bayern. Remember, at the time of this press conference, the future Hellenic King St. Otto Rehhagel was at the helm of rookies FC K'lautern on their way to miraculously winning the title as a newly promoted team. Bayern under pressure.




Wrath of the Titans 2nd part. Alberto Malesani. His outburst was due to the fans' pressure on Vardinogiannis, and that tension interfered with his work.





Wrath of the Titans 3rd part. Sor Carletto. Circa 80-meter-distance, running angry vocal Tenor. Pep Guardiola was there but didn't enter the pitch.

先生,
Both are among the best tactical MasterMinds in the Euroleague, creating great visions for those who mentally, tactically and statistically are digging much deeper into the Game.
These visionaries never ever moved to work across the Pond.
Thank you for that, Obradović-Sensei.
Thank you for that, Itoudis-Sensei.
The much-more-physically-contact-and-non-banned-defensive-play EuroBasket style needs your decisions.



In my opinion, here in the video, the angry and speechless Obradović is 95 percent sure in his mind exactly what the tactical order will be for the last quarter, while the perfectly logical Itoudis covers his reasoning in a long speech, and when both covering the same idea, the trigger is in effect.

Much more impressive is the way those Monstrous-mind-capability Coaches manage the current resources they have in hand when the following conditions are covered:
- they're currently coaching non-top-teams;
- those teams are currently so far from their best sporting form (in terms of projected potential).
A month or two later, the case may be quite different.

Despite the fact that in the last month or two, I personally have hardly had any free time for Basketball analysis and markets (due to the time-consuming heavy analysis and business activities during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 held in Bharat), I can't stop enjoying the game held on the 9th of November between two teams, who met the aforementioned criteria.
I'm amazed at the way Itoudis led Fenerbahçe as underdogs (according to the bookies) in Belgrade and the way they behaved before the last quarter, initially the good shooting for three points, the good point advance in the Fenerbahçe's team favor in the first half-time, and even till the moment of 49:63 (despite the slowly wasted third quarter).
I'm also amazed at the way Obradović rattled a lazy Partizan team in the last quarter (after stealing 3 points from Fenerbahçe's lead during the strangely slow almost interminable third quarter), and especially the energetic turnaround, fueled by the prevention of three-pointers for the visitors. In the most interesting interval of the home late attack that started somewhere after the first half, only one or two successful three-pointers were noticed for the Itoudis' team if I am not mistaken.

I wonder what tactically Masterpiece would be on the pitch if both Sensei led the best teams in the EuroLeague...

With Saras and Diamantidis in the roaster, you dont have to say much.
Once I watched the game PAOK-Panathinaikos in Thessaloniki. Poor PAOK fans thought they would beat the game. Diamantidis was so relaxed that I doubt he even had a shower after the game.

arbusers wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:08 pm

With Saras and Diamantidis in the roaster, you dont have to say much.
Once I watched the game PAOK-Panathinaikos in Thessaloniki. Poor PAOK fans thought they would beat the game. Diamantidis was so relaxed that I doubt he even had a shower after the game.

Very true.

Imagine the big picture in the coaching business if Šarūnas "Šaras" Jasikevičius had learned even a lower percentage of motivation skills like these Grandmasters...

While I was working on building my own projected probabilities for the upcoming GBL A1 clash between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos tomorrow, January 22nd, I read a post from our kind Forum Host Mr. Arbusers here:
how-do-you-handle-these-kinds-of-situat ... 775#p97775

I only partially agree with Mr. Arbusers (regretfully the Time leaves its mark and ages everyone, while new competent participants enter the races), and circa 30 hours until the start of tomorrow's clash, I remembered those moments, so there are things in the contemporary World that all the money in the World cannot buy - the Respect, the Love and the eternal lovely Memories of the Basketball Lovers.

- The King is back, Athens, 2024, a few days ago

https://twitter.com/paobcgr/status/1748422856696791359



- The King is back, Athens, ten years earlier(see between the 5th and 8th minute)



- It's a complete shame no one in the major media mentions the Patriarch of EuroLeague Basketball, Dušan Ivković. Rest in peace, Mr. Dušan Ivković, we'll never forget You!
I always wonder what it would be like if Ivković was at PAO and Obradović was at Olympiakos...
The very short answer is that Basketball in every possible combination is a Great Game as always, giving us plenty of lovely Memories...
By the way, I read that the Denver Nuggets team wanted him as a coach, is that true?





- Do you remember Dejan Bodiroga?

Obradovic gave an interview when in Athens last week. He mentioned that some 100 of his former players are now basketball coaches. What a legend!

While working on one of my projects related to the calculation of some things until the end of the 2023/24 season for Bayer'04 Leverkusen, and while building some historical data and graphs, I remembered the extravagant coach Dragoslav Stepanović, known for his good work for both teams Eintracht Frankfurt & Bayer'04 and also coached AEK Athens and Athletic Bilbao for a little while.
Stepanović brought the Leverkusen team the only domestic Cup in their history so far in '93, after Erich Ribbeck won the UEFA Cup'88, would Xabier Alonso be the next in 2024?

Dragoslav "Steppi" Stepanović looks like Einstein during a university lecture here in that video:)