He fought but… the Children’s National Team bowed to the superiority of France

In the superiority of French she bowed Our National Children’s Teamknowing heavy defeat by score 86-72 in the quarter-final stage of Eurobasket U16 held in North Macedonia.

The representative group of our country “paid” his bad start, where the “tricolors” with a frantic pace in their game “built” early on differences of more than 15 and 20 points, thus getting the ticket for the semi-finals of the competition with relative comfort.

For Greece, his appearance was touching Alexandrou Alexakis, who finished the match with 21 points (4/6tr.) and 4 rebounds. They followed closely Lefas (11p.) and Sherbetzis (13p.), as well as Makaratzis who finished the game with 7 points and 8 assists.

As for the French, who will face Italy in the semi-finals, they stood out Bulefa (22p., 12r.) and Nazi (20p., 8r., 5as.).

The match:

Her beginning was extremely impressive of France in the match, with National us not to be able to follow the frantic pace of the opponents. With Boulefa and Naji leading the scoring, the “tricolor” ran a 15-0 run for 21-3 in the sixth minute, with the only Greek basket up to that time coming by the hand of Serbetzis. After the initial “shock”, Greece found solutions to scoring, closing it out quarter at 28-13.



A difference that was maintained at these levels until the middle of the second period (37-23), thanks mainly to the aggressive inspirations of Stevovics and Papastavros. But then the French put their foot on the “gas”, throwing the difference at +23 (51-28), before Alexakis with six collected points in the last two minutes sent the two teams to locker room with a score of 51-36.

France continued at the same rate at the beginning second halfmaintaining the difference of more than 20 points and indeed with typical comfort (67-45 at 26′). All our representative group could do was somehow pick up the difference at the end third quarter (70-53) with the successive three-pointers of Alexakis and Lefa.

Somehow, the fourth and last quarter became procedural, since the difference was such that it could not be overturned. After all, his children Ioannis Kalambokis not only did they not give up, on the contrary, they fought until the final, reducing for the final 86-72.



The quarters: 28-13, 51-36, 70-53, 86-72.

See here the statistics of the match.