This Wednesday (8.30 p.m. on Magenta Sport) and Friday you play with FC Bayern in Munich against FC Barcelona.

In the quarter-final series of the Euroleague, the most demanding competition in European basketball, the score is 1-1.

With two more victories, they could be the first German team to reach the Final Four.

And unlike a year ago in the quarterfinals against Milan, the fans can be there.

Are these the two biggest games in the club's history?

Christopher Meltzer

Sports correspondent in Munich.

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I think so.

The fans change everything.

It was a good feeling when we played Milan in a quarter-final for the first time in the Euroleague, but the play-off feeling was different.

Because the fans were missing because of the corona pandemic.

Now everything is correct.

We play in our own hall against FC Barcelona, ​​the first in the main round, the favourites.

with fans.

This is a special moment for us.

You were already playing when FC Bayern played a Euroleague game for the first time in the hall where we are sitting today.

Do you remember?

I know we played Barcelona here in pre-season, but the first Euroleague game?

I do not know that anymore.

It was October 24, 2013. An 89-79 win over Siena.

They played 36 minutes, amassed 14 points, five assists, four rebounds.

Beautiful!

We have almost 90 games a season.

You can forget about some games.

Glad you picked this one out.

That brings back memories.

What do you remember when you moved from Berlin to Munich in the summer of 2013?

What kind of basketball club was FC Bayern?

One who was at the beginning.

We played the third season in the Bundesliga - and because of a wildcard, the first in the Euroleague.

I knew that this club could become something special.

And yet it will have been different than at FC Barcelona, ​​who signed you at the age of 17, right?

You didn't have to take anything with you to training in Barcelona.

No shirts, no shoes, no slippers.

It was all there for you.

We have always flown with charter planes, never waited.

It was different in Munich.

We had a family atmosphere here.

I knew and know everyone here.

The people in management.

The people in the office.

The people who clean the hall.

How often have you forgotten to put your slippers in your gym bag?

I don't think so.

In Sarajevo, where I started basketball, I had to tape myself.

I made juice for the other players, I carried the water.

I did a hundred things before a game - and then played the game.

What has changed most in Munich since beating Siena in October 2013?

It has become more and more professional.

Now we players are at a point where all we have to think about is basketball.

No matter what you need for you, physio, scouting, strength training;

no matter what you need for your family - you get it.

In 1990, when you were just born, your parents moved from Bosnia to Munich.

They later went to school in Munich.

Have you ever played basketball here?