{"id":27311,"date":"2025-10-03T13:08:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aekbc.gr\/?p=27311"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:13:52","slug":"every-beginning-brings-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aekbc.gr\/en\/every-beginning-brings-excitement\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEvery beginning brings excitement\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AEK BC head coach Dragan Sakota shared his thoughts ahead of the Stoiximan GBL season opener against Kolossos in Rhodes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery new beginning brings excitement, and especially this year. It was evident from the preseason games, as well as from the rosters and budgets of the teams, that we are going to have a strong Championship. It is no coincidence that FIBA has ranked Stoiximan GBL in 3rd place in its Ranking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We haven\u2019t had the opportunity to watch many of Kolossos\u2019s games, unlike the people of Kolossos who were able to observe us more. From the few I have seen, however, it seems that our opponent is a better team than last year, they are strong, and their coach has done a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AEK BC head coach Dragan Sakota shared his thoughts ahead of the Stoiximan GBL season opener against Kolossos in Rhodes: \u201cEvery new beginning brings excitement, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"\u201cEvery beginning brings excitement\u201d\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aekbc.gr\/en\/every-beginning-brings-excitement\/#more-27311\" aria-label=\"More on \u201cEvery beginning brings excitement\u201d\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":27309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cEvery beginning brings excitement\u201d - AEK BC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aekbc.gr\/en\/every-beginning-brings-excitement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cEvery beginning brings excitement\u201d - AEK BC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AEK BC head coach Dragan Sakota shared his thoughts ahead of the Stoiximan GBL season opener against Kolossos in Rhodes: \u201cEvery new beginning brings excitement, ... 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