Ljubljana - in December...

Greetings from Ljubljana - and the host city for the 2013 EuroBasket.. my travels once again take me to Slovenia to meet up with Finnish International players, whom we have three playing for Olimpija Ljubljana.

After an eventful travel day on Saturday, when I realised at 1am (when I had checked in to my hotel at London LUTON) that my flight to Ljubljana departed froM STANSTED airport.. NOT LUTON!! Good that I checked, as it meant an extra hour of driving in the morning.. I keep saying to myself that I travel too much!

Sunday morning it was a meeting with all three players in the morning for a 'brunch' - as they were interviewed, and as the photographer I was also invited for the meal.  Nice little place, which I can recommend for anyone staying in Ljubljana during EuroBasket 2013 (comes well recommended by the Finns over here..). After long interviews, and few shots of the players near the city centre.. it was back to the hotel.

In the evening it was time to visit the training sessions of Ljubljana and Buducnost at the Stozice Arena - know the secret codes to get to the parking space at press entrance.. and in we go. Sit through the Ljubljana training - talk to the players .. one video that i KNOW i can publish.. the other one.. let's see if Emir will be happy with the video as Teemu Rannikko and Sasu Salin ask him questions ;-)

No training for Buducnost - at least not that we saw any - and there might be reasons for that, but I'll ask Gerald Lee about those tomorrow - so something for you all to wait for :-)

But - here's the 'main' feature of this article - few bits from Sasu Salin about the game against Buducnost.. and Teemu Rannikko couldn't resist coming over for a while either...

SASU SALIN (in Finnish/Suomeksi) talks about the BIG game against Buducnost :

Salin-PreGame