The new EuroLeague champion celebrated its trophy with its fans
Fenerbahce enjoys massive championship parade
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Tens of thousands of fans took it to the streets of Turkiye's largest city for a massive parade to greet the new Turkish Airlines EuroLeague champions, Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul, on Tuesday afternoon.
Having captured the club’s second-ever EuroLeague crown, coach Saras Jasikevicius's team rode an open-top bus through a long Bagdat Street, the main avenue in Bostanci neighborhood. The bus moved slowly through the street packed with the fans wearing yellow-and-navy colors and proudly waving the flags of their favorite, and once again championship-winning, team.
Coach Jasikevicius and his players and staff looked on in awe of the amazing scenes, enjoying every second of the parade, showing off the coveted trophy they captured with an 81-70 win over AS Monaco in Sunday’s EuroLeague Championship Game in Abu Dhabi.
Fenerbahce became the eighth team in the modern EuroLeague to win the trophy twice, having also climbed the throne in 2017.
"We are the EuroLeague champions, we have won the biggest trophy in Europe," Final Four MVP Nigel Hayes-Davis said to the masses in Turkish. "But this is not just the victory of a trophy, it is a victory of attitude, of belief, of character. This success did not come only from a coach's tactics or the talent of the players. This level is not reached only through sporting success. This success is the work of a team that believes in us, a community that never gives up, and you, our great fans, who are always by our side."