One Team ambassador Seibutis: having a goal in your life is crucial 0

Third season in the row Zalgiris Kaunas takes part in the Euroleague Basketball social program One Team. Together with One Team ambassadors Renaldas Seibutis and Olivier Hanlan the second phase of sessions with the kids have started recently at Zalgirio arena. Zalgiris management, the fans and the players invited Kaunas regional probation service to join the One Team program.

The purpose of this Zalgiris initiative is to use authoritative basketball stars and basketball game as an education method to help young people find purposeful goals and reach them with strong discipline. That was the key of the meeting when Seibutis and Hanlan introduced themselves to their new friends.

Zalgiris‘ players shared their knowledge and experience with the children and opened up about the difficulties they faced while growing up.

“Desire and belief that you can achieve what you have planned is very important. I haven’t gotten everything the easiest way in my childhood. Growing up in a small town and being outside of the big world wasn’t easy while I wanted to aim for the big things. But you get out of the bed every day and you have a dream. You want to achieve it, you want to get away, you want to see the world and to meet people. Basketball was that push for me” – Seibutis shared openly.

He encouraged the One Team participants to write down their weekly goals on the piece of paper as a way of capitalizing them.

Later Seibutis and Hanlan joined the kids on the court and showed them some basketball drills. Zalgiris athletic coach Justinas Grainys was also inspirational and taught the children to play as a team and help each other.

The meeting ended with a group photo and a promise to make the weekly goals a reality which will be touched upon in the future sessions.