History has shown us many times, that facts happened in past could have been different from their interpretations written in history books or taught at school. For example The October Revolution had in reality occurred in November so such a Victorious February started to lose its "victorious character."

As old Latin proverb says "Historia magistra vitae est", history should be a teacher (of life) not the specter. And this should be also the principle for basketball players of Good Angels Košice, who are expecting maybe the most important games of the whole season these days, because our eight times champion will be fighting for final tournament of FIBA EuroLeague.

Fixtures of 1. play off round (played on two winning games):

1. game: 21.2. 2012 (Tuesday) UMMC Yekaterinburg – GOOD ANGELS KOŠICE 2 pm. CET

2. game: 24.2. 2012 (Friday) GOOD ANGELS KOŠICE – UMMC Yekaterinburg 6 pm.

Possible decisive third game: 29.2. 2012 (Wednesday) UMMC Yekaterinburg – GOOD ANGELS KOŠICE 2 pm. CET

Advancement expectations of our current champion are problematic because of opponents strength in Play-Offs. We will stand against the winner of Russian Superleague and Russian Cup from previous three years, but also three times in a row bronze team of FIBA Euroleague and apart from all other successes UMMC Yekaterinburg won the FIBA EuroLeague in 2003.

Štefan SVITEK, head coach GOOD ANGELS Košice:

Players of Good Angels must face very or to be honest cruelly negative balance achieved in previous EuroLeague seasons in matches against teams representing country of our "big brother”. Furthermore to 14 EuroLeague losses we can add three more losses from FIBA EuroCup (from 2006/2007 season – we were two times beaten by Dynamo Moscow and once by Volgoda).

Overview of "up to now results” between Košice and Russian teams in Euroleague:

09. 12. 2004 Dynamo Moscow – DELTA I.C.P. KOŠICE 90 : 57

02. 02. 2005 DELTA I.C.P. KOŠICE – Dynamo Moskva 72 : 89

22. 02. 2005 VBM-SGAU Samara – DELTA I.C.P. KOŠICE 90 : 46

25. 02. 2005 DELTA I.C.P. KOŠICE – VBM-SGAU Samara 62 : 111

09. 11. 2005 Dynamo Moscow – K'CERO I.C.P. KOŠICE 67 : 52

14. 12. 2005 K'CERO I.C.P. KOŠICE – Dynamo Moscow 65 : 82

07. 11. 2007 Spartak Moscow Region – KOSIT 2013 KOŠICE 62 : 60

12. 12. 2007 KOSIT 2013 KOŠICE – Spartak Moscow Region 62 : 84

05. 11. 2008 MAXIMA BROKER KOŠICE – Spartak Moscow Region 75 : 89

10. 12. 2008 Spartak Moscow Region – MAXIMA BROKER KOŠICE 100 : 50

23. 02. 2010 UMMC Yekaterinburg – GOOD ANGELS KOŠICE 81 : 56

26. 02. 2010 GOOD ANGELS KOŠICE – UMMC Yekaterinburg 60 : 65

09. 11. 2011 GOOD ANGELS KOŠICE – Sparta&K Moscow Region 55 : 67

18. 01. 2012 Sparta&K Moscow Region – GOOD ANGELS KOŠICE 68 : 65

Like a "white crow” stands out in this statistics Round of 16 victory 78:70 against Čevakata Vologda in the first match of Round of 16 FIBA EuroCup 2007. Players from Košice were very close to "Russian” triumphs also in two matches on the court of Vidnoe, where they lost in 2007 just by two points and before four weeks this year just by 3 points difference. But there is no space for historical statistics now. Good Angels can - by possible success under Ural mountains - send those statistics into oblivion and make first step, so this year February could be written into club’s history as VICTORIOUS. Even we all know - it won’t be easy, but we still believe that it’s not completely impossible.

Maroš KOVÁČIK, assistant coach GOOD ANGELS Košice: