Shay Shtriks: "What a great season!"

Dear Friends, We are already in the 4th Final Four of the EUROHOLD Balkan League. What a great season!   I would like to congratulate the participants of Final Four 2012 and all other teams that took part in the 2011/2012 season.   Season 2011/2012 happened to be a great challenge for all of us - 12 teams, 12 games in Israel, games finishing in the last second. The quality of most of the games was very good and the system which started in the 2010/2011 season proved itself to give to everybody a very attractive competition. The decision to put 2 Israeli teams was a correct one and it increased the level of basketball, although we had to manage 11 flights to Israel which was the biggest challenge for both the League and the teams. We did it in the best way and here I would like to thank all the EUROHOLD BIBL staff.   EUROHOLD BIBL started 4 years ago with 4 member countries. Then, during the second edition the number grew to 5 and as present we have 7 countries-members. Having Israel join us, with the cooperation of the 7 federations and the 12 clubs we succeeded to provide to the basketball fans and supporters a high-level international competition and to show that we have very good basketball in our region, based on many of the local players.   I would like to thank again our main sponsor EUROHOLD for standing firmly next to us from the first day the League started.   Without them we would never be able to run this great project the way we have been doing it.   Moreover, I would like to say one big THANK YOU to our staff; to the people from Sport Media TV who worked along with us to provide you, the viewers 90% of the games LIVE on the Internet; and to all the other sponsors and partners!   The management of the EUROHOLD Balkan League wishes good luck to all the teams in FINAL FOUR 2012 and let the best one win!   Shay Shtriks Sports Director EUROHOLD Balkan League