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The Lithuanian champions announced unexpected news the day after their second Euroleague defeat: yesterday Žalgiris’s team 64:70 landed for team Zenit in St. Petersburg.
Slovenian Jure Zdovc will replace M.Schiller, who has spent more than one season in Kaunas, at the helm of “Žalgiris”.
Such rapid changes did not pass the foreigners’ eyes.
“Oh … People hit the panic button so fast. It’s crazy,” Monaco club star Mike James responded to Schiller’s dismissal.
“Wow,” wrote Aaron White, a former Žalgiris resident who now represents the Crvena zvezda club in Belgrade, against whom Kaunas will play the next match on Wednesday.
Getty Images / Euroleague.net nuotr./Aaronas White’as
European basketball journalists also reacted to the decision of Kaunas residents.
“What an absurd decision if nothing happened between the leadership of Žalgiris and Martin Schiller. It seems that Vladimir Romanov has taken over the team again,” said a Turk from Caner Eler of beIN Sports.
Photo by Rokas Lukoševičius / 15min / Martin Schiller
“Even Žalgiris, considered one of the best organizations in the Euroleague, can fire a coach during the first month of the season. Schiller finished badly last season, but it is interesting that coach Paulius Motiejūnas, who said” we have to be innovative, “he chose Jure Zdovca,” said another Turkish Ugur, Ozan Sulak.
“I would have expected it from UNIKS, PAO or Crvena zvezda, but when Žalgiris fires the coach after two rounds … I wonder,” wrote Russian Artiomas Komarov.
“Are you kidding? This is amazing”, – the Ukrainian Oleksandr Prošuta was shocked.
VIDEO: Kaunas Žalgiris press conference on the dismissal of M. Schiller and announcement of a new strategist
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