The Women’s National Team faces Portugal tonight (10:30 p.m., ERT3) in the city of Odivelas, just outside of Lisbon, and with a victory they seal qualification to the final phase of EuroBasket 2023.
The National Team completed its preparation with a morning training session and is ready for today’s match. The Federal coach Petros Prekas after the end of the training announced the 12-team of the National Women’s team for tonight’s match and Dimitra Gizani and Lydia Hatira were left out.
The 12 athletes are:
4. Anna Niki Stamolamprou 26.08.1995 1.70 1 Olympiacos
6. Dionysia Alexandri 24.10.1989 1.65 1 Panathinaikos
8. Penelope Pavlopoulou 03.03.1996 1.70 1 Panathinaikos
12. Katerina Sotiriou 03.01.1984 1.86 3-4 Panathinaikos
15. Artemis Spanou 01.01.1993 1.86 4-5 Polkowice (Poland)
21. Eleanna Christinaki 16.12.1996 1.83 2 Panathinaikos
24. Vasiliki Cholopoulou 20.06.2007 1.76 1 All-rounder
25. Antigoni Hairistanidou 03.10.1990 1.88 3-4 Panathinaikos
26. Ioanna Diela 02.06.1990 1.82 3 Olympiacos
34. Mariella Fasoula 02.09.1997 1.95 5 Perfumerias Avenida (Spain)
44. Renia Karlafti 08.06.1998 1.80 2 PAOK
55. Evina Stamati 02.08.1984 1.81 2 Olympiacos
Speaking about tonight’s opponent of the Women’s National Team, the partner of Petros Prekas, Giorgos Tsemberis said characteristically… “Portugal is a very fighting and particularly tough team. Today’s game is crucial for her.
Its main characteristics are the appeal of its players to go hard and manage to get a lot of offensive rebounds. Also the effort, not only to stop the offensive transition of the opposing team, but by using traps to lead them into mistakes that will often lead to easy baskets in the open field. So for us, defensive rebounds and minimizing mistakes is the point.
However, there are other characteristics in Portugal’s game, such as the implementation of big attacks, the achievement of few surprises, the basic mechanics and players who score on offense, the ways they defend on the ball screen and in the low post game, as well as the ability of players in personal defense.
Our own team is much more prepared than the first match and of course we have added new elements to our offensive and defensive game which I must admit that our athletes have assimilated to a great extent.
The atmosphere in the Women’s National Team is excellent, we believe that we are a better team and we have similar enthusiasm for this particular victory which will of course certify our participation in the final phase of EuroBasket”.
In Lisbon, on the side of the Women’s National Team, is also the general director of the EEC, Dinos Sverkounos.
The schedule of matches of the 7th Group
Thursday, February 9
21.30 Great Britain – Estonia
22.30 Portugal – Greece
Sunday, February 12
18.00 Great Britain – Portugal
18.00 Estonia – Greece
Grading
1. Greece 8
2. Portugal 6
3.Estonia 5
4. Great Britain 5
The prehistory with Portugal
14/05/1989 Greece – Portugal 82-70 (Women’s European Qualifiers 1990)
12/05/1991 Greece – Portugal 106-73 (Women’s European Qualifier 1993)
22/05/1993 Greece – Portugal 64-48 (Women’s European Qualifiers 1995)
11/11/2017 Greece – Portugal 66-60 (2019 Women’s European Qualifiers)
15/02/2018 Greece – Portugal 81-59 (Women’s European Qualifiers 2019)
14/11/2021 Greece – Portugal 64-57 (2023 Women’s European Qualifiers)
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