{"id":588506,"date":"2026-04-06T05:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588506\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T05:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:47:09","slug":"48-years-since-the-sixth-european-basketball-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588506\/","title":{"rendered":"48 years since the sixth European basketball Cup."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid\u00a0was crowned European basketball champion for the sixth time in its history on April 6, 1978. Four years after winning the\u00a0Fifth\u00a0in Nantes against Pallacanestro Varese, our team once again defeated the Italian side in the final held in Munich (75-67). The victory also served to break the tie between both clubs, which until that point had dominated the record books with five titles each.<\/p>\n<p>Szczerbiak\u00a0(26 points) and\u00a0Brabender\u00a0(16) were the top scorers for Real Madrid in the final, which reached halftime with Pallacanestro Varese leading narrowly, 40-41. The team coached by\u00a0Lolo Sainz, who won the first of his two\u00a0European Cups\u00a0as the coach of\u00a0Real Madrid, had an excellent second half and ultimately defeated the Italians. This triumph helped build Real Madrid&#8217;s dominance in the European Cup records, which currently boasts 11 titles.<\/p>\n<p>TECHNICAL SHEET<br \/>75-Real Madrid:\u00a0Corbal\u00e1n (2), Brabender (16), Szczerbiak (26), Coughan (10), Rull\u00e1n (10) \u2013 Cabrera (9), Prada (2), and Iturriaga (0).<br \/>67-Pallacanestro Varese:\u00a0Ossola (2), Yelverton (24), Zanatta (4), Morse (12), Meneghin (23) \u2013 and Bisson (2).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: Translation generated by artificial intelligence. It may contain inaccuracies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid\u00a0was crowned European basketball champion for the sixth time in its history on April 6, 1978. Four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-588506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588506","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=588506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}