Nika Baric in the home hall hunts the title she still lacks

“For personal reasons, this year I decided that after 13 consecutive seasons of playing at the highest European level, I take a year’s break from abroad. Celje is a club where I matured basketball and personal and from which I transferred to the then European champion in 2011. When I was abroad, before every season and in each pause, I liked to return to training to the princely town, ”today, 32-year-old Slovenian basketball player Nika Baric She explains why she returned to Slovenia and again, for the second time in her career, she dressed the ŽKK Cinkarna Celje jersey.

Nika wrote down basketball in the domestic Trbovlje, where he still lives today. She moved from Zasavje to Celje, where she finally put herself on the world basketball map and fired in the European elite. During these good 13 years, she played for the Euroleague for counting teams, with the team Yekaterinburg (in the best of times she had a budget of € 40 million and a private aircraft), she won the Euroleague title three times as the only Slovenian woman (2016, 2018, 2019). She also lacks the motive these days, and on Saturday and Sunday Celje hosts the final tournament of the WABA Regional League, the locals are hunting for the fourth consecutive title in the region and the sixth total. “I am motivated myself. Before leaving Celje, I played in the WABA for four years, then the Euroleague team was also in competition, the competition was stronger. But I have no title in this league yet. I hope, we succeed this year, « Nika wants.