{"id":357444,"date":"2025-12-19T03:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357444\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T03:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:32:14","slug":"pedro-martinez-reacts-to-chants-from-maccabis-fans-everybody-has-to-know-the-example-they-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357444\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Mart\u00ednez reacts to chants from Maccabi&#8217;s fans: &#8220;Everybody has to know the example they give&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Alex Molina \/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1909048\/pedro-martinez-reacts-to-chants-from-maccabis-fans-everybody-has-to-know-the-example-they-give\/maillot:info@eurohops.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1908982\/maccabi-tel-aviv-is-on-fire-and-secures-its-fourth-consecutive-victory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated Valencia Basket to grab the fourth win in a row.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the game, Pedro Mart\u00ednez, the head coach of the Spanish team, talked about the offensive chants from the home crowd.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1785\" data-end=\"2128\">\u201cIt\u2019s not my business. Everybody has to know the example they give as a person, as a club, as a supporter. For me, it\u2019s not a problem, maybe it\u2019s their problem\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/valencia\/?lang=en\" title=\"Valencia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Valencia<\/a> coach Pedro Martinez on the reactions of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/maccabi-tel-aviv\/?lang=en\" title=\"Maccabi Tel Aviv\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maccabi Tel Aviv<\/a> fans against him:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody has to know the example they give, as persons, as club, as supporters<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a problem for me. Maybe it\u2019s their problem\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7L8nWzakQR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/7L8nWzakQR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eurohoops (@Eurohoopsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eurohoopsnet\/status\/2001770278414655493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pedro Mart\u00ednez\u2019s statements were made in the press room after he was unable to respond in the flash interview zone; the coach had to leave without answering because he couldn\u2019t hear the questions due to insults from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of behavior towards the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/valencia\/?lang=en\" title=\"Valencia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Valencia<\/a> coach occurred throughout the game, and the club issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cValencia Basket, which has been in communication with Euroleague throughout the game, will file a formal complaint tomorrow, providing photographic evidence, regarding the uncivil behavior of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/maccabi-tel-aviv\/?lang=en\" title=\"Maccabi\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maccabi<\/a> fans.<\/p>\n<p>Attitudes like today\u2019s, with racist insults and repeated verbal abuse directed at the club and our coach, Pedro Mart\u00ednez, and even preventing him from giving a post-game press conference on television, damage not only the competition but our sport in general, and are completely unacceptable in a basketball arena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Euroleague<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Alex Molina \/ info@eurohoops.net Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated Valencia Basket to grab the fourth win in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-357444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}