PARTIZAN BASKETBALL TEAM WON EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS TITLE 34 YEARS AGO

BELGRADE, APRIL 16 /SRNA/ – Basketball club KK Partizan won the European champions title today 34 years ago, defeating Spanish Joventut Badalona with a three-pointer by Aleksandar Đorđević in the final moments of the game.

On April 16, 1992, in Istanbul, Partizan defeated Joventut 71–70 in the final of the then European Champions Cup.

Predrag Danilović of the black-and-whites was named the Final Four MVP.

The Partizan team, the youngest in the competition with an average age of 21.7, was headed from the bench by Željko Obradović, with legendary professor Aleksandar Nikolić as his assistant.

Players who represented Partizan in the 1992 European Champions Cup final were Aleksandar Đorđević, Predrag Danilović, Nikola Lončar, Zoran Stevanović, Dragiša Šarić, Željko Rebrača, Mlađan Šilobad, Slaviša Koprivica, Vladimir Dragutinović, and Ivo Nakić.

Earlier, on April 14, 1992, Partizan defeated Italian Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano 82–75 in the Final Four semifinal, while Joventut beat Estudiantes 91–69.

Due to the war in the former Yugoslavia, Partizan played its home games in the group stage of the European Champions Cup in Fuenlabrada, a suburb of Madrid, where they enjoyed strong support from Spanish fans.