The national basketball team continues its preparation in Abu Dhabi for the World Cup, with the last tests against USA (18/8, 19:00) and Germany (19/8, 19:00). THE Thanasis Antetokounmpowith the role of… deputy captain in the interim until Kostas Papanikolaou returns to training (he is traveling from Athens today after the birth of his second daughter) gives the signal for the continuation.
“We have said it many times, it is something amazing to play for the country, to contribute to the National Team. We also saw at the games in Athens how much the world loves us and we assure everyone that we want to achieve something good and share the joy together“, he reports about his baptism of fire as the leader of the “official darling”.
As for the identity that the National team wants to forge, he emphasizes:What we keep from the games we played is that we gave it our all. And we will continue to give it our all! We will fight until the end, in every match. We guys don’t give up. We have seen it in all the friendlies that have taken place so far, and this is the most important. Just as important is that we are getting more and better on the field».
The games in Abu Dhabi will provide the opportunity for the finishing touches to the team’s racing image. “We expect these friendlies to be very strong as well, I feel excited for this tournament. We are ten days before the World Cup and until it starts, our goal is to improve every day even by one percent”, the international forward will point out, adding that at team level the goal is “to keep our competitive identity, to even better our automations and from there on she might lead us to something else”, while in personal “I would say that I have to be more stable».
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Source: Sport Fm
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