Monaco will leave with their coach. The finalist of the French basketball championship and quarter-finalist of the Euroleague announced on Monday a three-season extension of Sasa Obradovic (53), now linked to the club until June 2025. Obradovic specified, on the club’s website, to have very high ambitions for next season.
«They will be even higher than in the previous season, and we must not hide it, he explained. Winning the French championship is important for the club, for Monaco, for the fans. And we must establish ourselves even higher in the European landscape in the Euroleague. Next year, but also in the future.»
For the Serb, thechallenge will be to answer present», «but also to have the ambition to cross levels». «We are building a workforce to maintain this European standing acquired this year, he further assured. The top 8 (in Euroleague, editor’s note) will soon be the minimum objective to reach for us, and no longer the ultimate goal».
Arrived in December in a club in difficulty in the Euroleague, Obradovic, who had already led Monaco between 2019 and 2020, had then straightened the results of the team to climb for the first time in the Euroleague play-offs and to deliver a high level fight in the quarter-finals against the Greeks of Olympiakos.