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Zeljko Obradovic will be in Athens for the Final Four: the man with nine crowns returns to the place where he became a legend

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Serbian coach Zeljko Obradovic, the most successful man in EuroLeague history, will be following the Final Four tournament in Athens, where Fenerbahce, Olympiacos, Real Madrid and Valencia battle for the title, according to Sportal. The OAKA Arena will once again host the man it has a particular relationship with.

Obradovic has nine EuroLeague trophies won with five different clubs - a figure no coach before him has reached and likely no one after him will. That's more than half of all possible titles in the last thirty years.

His titles came with Partizan Belgrade (1992), Joventut Badalona (1994), Real Madrid (1995), Panathinaikos (2000, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2011) and Fenerbahce (2017). With Panathinaikos he built something rarely seen in European basketball - a dynasty. Five of those nine trophies came in green and white.

This year, Partizan has been out of the EuroLeague for several seasons, but Obradovic's name has remained the reason the bench at the tournament still fills up with people who came to see how he watches the sport from the sidelines. On Greek soil, in the place where he became a legend - all four clubs know his eye is in the crowd.