Shay Shtriks: Enjoy the basketball celebration during the Final Four

Dear Friends,
 
I have the extreme pleasure to invite you to be part of the 5th Final Four of EUROHOLD Balkan League!  
 
I would like to congratulate the participants of FINAL FOUR 2013 and all the other teams that took part in season 2012-2013.
 
The season was very intensive and with a lot of great games and it happened to be a great challenge for all of us - 10 teams, new system with top 6 and last 4 and eventually Final Four, totally 70 games. The quality of most of the games and the officiating was very good and the system which started in 2012-2013 proved itself to give everybody very attractive competition. The decision to have one Israeli team and one Greek team was a correct one and it increased the level of the basketball.
EUROHOLD BIBL started 5 years ago with 4 member countries. Then, during the second edition the number grew to 5 and at present we have 7 countries-members on the way to 8 or 9. Having Israel and Greece, with the cooperation of all other federations and the 10 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 mainly on 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. Also I would like to thank our Main Partners - Globul - which joined us this season, hopefully for a long time and our other partners from Pepsi - Bulgaria, Mazda, Fiat, Spalding, SportMedia TV, BGbasket.com and special thanks to our very important partner Bulgarian National TV.   
 
Moreover, I would like to say one big "THANK YOU" to our staff and to the referees that officiate this season. All of them managed to show great skills and professionalism during the season and provided the clubs with the best basketball conditions so they could be concentrated only on basketball.
 
Good luck to all the teams in FINAL FOUR 2013 and enjoy this basketball celebration!

Shay Shtriks,
EUROHOLD Balkan League Sports Director