The Final 4 of EuroLeague takes place in Athens, with Olympiacos, Fenerbahce, Valencia and Real Madrid all vying for the trophy.

The semifinals take place on Friday, while the grand final will take place on Sunday.

This fact was commented on the show “We have and we say” with Stelios Vradelis, Giorgos Mavrotas, Secretary General Sports.

Mavrotas said “Athens is really becoming the centre of European and not only basketball. We have long had the opportunity as a city and as a country to organize a EuroLeague Final Four. A sport which is very popular worldwide and that is why 200 countries will have a picture of Athens (…). And the renovated stadium, the indoor stadium of the Olympic Stadium, can hold about 18,500 people. It is a big organizational challenge. We are taking exams this weekend. We have teams from three countries, Greece, Turkey and Spain“.

And he added “The majority will of course be Olympiacos fans. Which will be about half. And then we expect quite a few from Turkey as well. Approximately the numbers say around 4 to 5,000. We expect quite a few Spaniards from Valencia and fewer from Real““

At the same time, he pointed out: “I think that even if there was a meeting between Olympic and Panathinaikos, the police, that is, those who are in charge of the security of the event, because we have worked as the General Secretariat of Sport with the Police in recent years and in the framework of the St. Denis Convention, which is a holistic approach to security, protection and service at sporting events and with the measures taken in recent years by the Ministry of Sport in cooperation with the Ministry of Citizen Protection for the stadiums and all this has been developed The estimate from what they say, they are talking about 100 to 150 million that it will be generally from what they will spend, those who will come to watch it in Athens.”

Finally, he did not fail to stress the following “I think that in general we need to start seeing sports and attract sporting events in our country. Because, even as a country that gave birth to sport and the Olympics, with the years of crisis, I think we have forgotten a little bit about the sport. Now I think, it is of course the policy of the Ministry and the government, to undertake important events. To put Greece back on the world map, of the event and not just to go our athletes abroad (…)”.