New era for her National team of Greece and… officially!
The “blue and white” is thrown into the battle of qualification to Eurobasket of 2025, with the coach Vasilis Spanoulis to do premiere in training as the coach of the “official favorite”.
The first training session was held at SEF, on Monday (19/02), with the Greek coach calling 16 players, from which the 12s for the first two games against the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, which will take place on February 23 and 26 respectively, will emerge. It should be noted that no one is “cut” and probably the Kill Bill he will go to a starting eight, doing… rotation with the rest in the two matches.
It should be noted that the internationals of Olympiakos and Panathinaikos, who competed in last night’s (18/02) Cup final at “Two Aorakia” in Heraklion, did not train today, while Kostas Sloukas was also present at SEF. The guard of Panathinaikos AKTOR is not in the mission, since recently he has been suffering and burdened by injuries. Despite all this, he found himself on the side of the “blue and white”, having conversations with his former teammates at Olympiakos, discussing with the current ones in the “greens”, but of course also with Vassilis Spanoulis.
The latter sent clear messagetelling reporters that “no one is above the national team» and he was heard to say the same thing to his players, when he gathered them in the center of the field, in order to speak to them. Next to him, in fact, was the president of the federation, Vangelis Liolios.
The calls of Vassilis Spanoulis:
Kostas Papanikolaou
Giannoulis Larentzakis
George Papagiannis
Dino Mitoglou
Lefteris Bohorides
Nikos Rogavopoulos
Costas Antetokounmpo
Dimitris Moraitis
Panagiotis Kalaitzakis
Thomas Walkup
Yannis Kouseloglou
Vassilis Charalambopoulos
Vasilis Toliopoulos
Lefteris Mantzoukas
Naz Mitrou Long
Vangelis Zougris
Detailed schedule of Greece in the qualifiers:
Greece-Czech Republic (23/2/2024, 21:00)
Netherlands-Greece (26/2/2024, 20:30)
Great Britain-Greece (21/11/2024)
Greece-Great Britain (24/11/2024)
Czech Republic-Greece (21/2/2025)
Greece-Netherlands (24/2/2025)
Source: Sport Fm
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