Basketball: at what time and on which channel(s) to follow the Final Four of the Euroleague with Monaco?


Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin / Photo credit: Valery HACHE / AFP

A small Rock in the shoe of the powerful. Twenty-six years after Villeurbanne and for the first time in its history, Monaco is participating in the Final Four of the Euroleague basketball in the middle of the continent’s leaders (Real Madrid, Barcelona and Olympiacos), from Friday in Kaunas in Lithuania. Having succeeded, for its second participation only, in bringing French basketball back to the last four of the queen of European competitions, unattended since Asvel in 1997, is already a notable performance for ASM.

To succeed the winners at CSP Limoges, the only tricolor club to win the C1 (in 1993), it must achieve two others, it which was still playing in the third division in the summer of 2013 when Olympiacos, its opponent Friday in half -finals, won his third Euroleague title. First half of the Final Four, Monegasques and Greeks will face off from 5 p.m. The other semi-final, which will pit Barcelona against Real Madrid, will also take place on Friday, starting at 8 p.m. The final and the match for third place will take place on Sunday at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Friday May 19: semi-finals
5 p.m.: Olympiakos/Monaco (La Chaîne L’Equipe and Skweek)
8 p.m.: Barcelona/Real Madrid (Skweek)

Sunday, May 21: Third-place match and final
4 p.m.: match for 3rd place (Skweek)
7 p.m.: final (La Chaîne L’Equipe and Skweek)

The revival of Monaco

Taken over in 2012 by Ukrainian businessman Sergey Dyadechko, who has since 2022 ceded his place as president and majority shareholder to naturalized Hungarian Russian Aleksej Fedoricsev, the Rock club has climbed the ladder at high speed. Until winning, in 2021, the Eurocoupe, antechamber of the Euroleague, a coronation which opened the doors to the C1, a semi-closed competition where two-thirds of the clubs have their permanent napkin ring.

Among them, Real Madrid (10 titles), Barcelona (2) and Olympiacos, on whom Monaco had broken their teeth last year during the decisive support match of the quarter-finals, reached on their first appearance in C1. “We are going to fight for something even bigger. We have to realize how lucky we are and live the moment fully,” said Yakuba Ouattara. “We have nothing to envy anyone, we are able to beat everyone,” he then warned.



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