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Cetin over four years ago with Coach Adam!
Today’s blog is brought to you by Cetin Pirlanta, our oldest PPI-CY member and Leadership Development Program participant. He shares his 8 years in the program and what he hopes to do with PeacePlayers in the future. He is the son of legendary PeacePlayers coach, Sevki Pirlanta.
Hi everyone…This is the time for me to share some things about myself and PeacePlayers and why I joined PeacePlayers. So first of all, I would like to introduce my self- I am Cetin and I am 18 years old and I have started my college life this year. I am a Cypriot guy that loves his island very much and expecting peace again this island one day. I have been in this program since It was started so I can easily say that I am the oldest player in this program.
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Cetin jumping high for the lay up
First, when I started this program I was an inexperienced small kid and I was worrying about how to get together with Greek-Cypriot people but now I can easily get talk and play basketball with anyone. This is the one of the values that I learned from PeacePlayers. I am practicing in Iskele (Trikomo). This year I started to coach practices to small basketbal players while also playing with the older kids.
Through PeacePlayers I have learnt how to share, trust, cooperate, and respect everyone, creating friendship and peace. PeacePlayers taught us whatever your religion or language you are talking, it doesn’t matter. The world is small and there are lots of people so we have to live with peace and love to have a great life with great people. Another point for me is having new friends so I will get know another cultures and their countries. PeacePlayers provides us this easily so every one gets to know each others’ cultures from South to North side.
My favorite thing in this program are the Summer Camps. Camps are so joyful and I learn so much from them. At these camps we meet with previous NBA or WNBA players, so this is the biggest adventage for us. By teaching us what they know from their experience and Cypriot coaches teach us many things too. By these camps we will get more experience and meet some new friends. These camps are the reason I met Alexis, a very tall Greek-Cypriot, one my best friend all around the world. We have good conversations and relationship so I can easily trust him with all my heart.
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Cetin and Alexis at summer camp many years ago!
Lastly, I can easily invite everyone to PeacePlayers to have beautiful life and increase your knowledge by great coaches. By the 8 years in this program, from the first year to up now, I became a mature person. I hope that I can become a full time coach for PeacePlayers one day. No life without PeacePlayers-Cyprus. So I want to thank to PPI-Cyprus family to get me this point so I promise that I will improve my self everyday.
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