Definitively out of the World Cup and Kostas Antetokounmpo – Toliopoulos “cut”

Another absence for the National team in World Cup. After him Giannis Antetokounmpohis brother was permanently out of battle, Kostas.

The 25-year-old center had undergone a cleaning operation on the knee and after the tests it was found that does not manage to be in sufficient condition to help the Greek team.

Most the absences in relation to the dozen of Eurobasket 2022 are sixas they were preceded by those of Sloukas, Kalathis, Dorsey, Agravanis and Giannis Antetokounmpo.

THE Vasilis Toliopoulos was the other player, of the 15 participating in the regular preseason program, who will not follow the assignment. Thus the 14th squad is formed as follows: Kostas Papanikolaou, Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Giannoulis Larentzakis, Ioannis Papapetrou, George Papagiannis, Michalis Lountzis, Dinos Mitoglou, Lefteris Bohorides, Nikos Rogavopoulos, Dimitris Moraitis, Panagiotis Kalaitzakis?, Tomas Walkap, Man olis Hatzidakis and Giorgos Tsalbouris.

The national team also trained on Sunday at OAKA and on Monday at noon they will do the last training, before flying to Asia on Tuesday, with Abu Dhabi as the first stop and the friendlies with USA (18/8) and Germany (19/8) ).

The EEC announcement:

Dimitris Itoudis announced the 14 players who will travel to Abu Dhabi and the important preparation tournament against rivals the USA (18/8) and Germany (19/8), from which the final 12 for the World Cup will emerge with the end of today’s (13/8) training of the Men’s National Team at OAKA.

Kostas Antetokounmpo was permanently excluded from the National team on the way to the World Cup. The last assessment of the doctors who followed him throughout the intensive effort he made while simultaneously following a program of recovery and personal training, was that he does not have time to be in the desired condition on the days of the event and after that, he was excluded.

Vassilis Toliopoulos was the player, out of the 15 who participate in the regular program of the preparation, who will not follow the mission. At the end of the training, he received the “warm” applause of the whole team and the thanks of the coach for his substantial contribution to the work that has been done so far.

The 14 players who will participate in the mission are: Kostas Papanikolaou, Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Giannoulis Larentzakis, Ioannis Papapetrou, George Papagiannis, Michalis Lountzis, Dinos Mitoglou, Lefteris Bohorides, Panagiotis Kalaitzakis, Nikos Rogavopoulos, Dimitris Moratis, Thomas Uok by, Giorgos Tsalbouris and Manolis Hatzidakis.