Monaco monumental. The Roca Team rallied for the first time in its history the Final Four of the Euroleague basketball by sealing Wednesday (97-86) its series of quarterfinals against Maccabi Tel Aviv.
It is also the first. time a French team has reached this stage of the competition since Villeurbanne in 1997, 26. years ago. The affair was less simple to find than the thunderous beginning might have suggested. When Sasa Obradovic's men inflicted a 15-0 on the Israelis and took off (41-33) in the middle of the second quarter.