Her penultimate test before him Pre-Olympic Tournament which will take place next week (July 2-7) gives the National basketball team facing in SEF the Montenegro (20:00, ERT2, News Bulletin 247 and sport-fm.gr).
THE Vasilis Spanoulis will test formations and tactics ahead of the official games to come. Logically, he will be out today as well John Antetokounmpo, but is likely to get time on Thursday against the Bahamas and will certainly be ready for the Pre-Olympic Tournament. On the contrary, Kostas Papanikolaou and Kostas Antetokounmpo are expected to return to the dozen.
The Montenegro will take part in the Riga Pre-Olympic Tournament (July 2-7) and will compete with Brazil and Cameroon in the first round, seeking to qualify for the Olympics for the first time as an independent state. Bosko Radovic’s team came to Athens with Nikola Vucevic as their captain, but Bojan Dublijevic, Nikola Ivanovic, Vladimir Mihailovic, Nemanja Radovic, Marko Todorovic, Fedor Zugic, Jovan Kliajic are not available this summer, while Zoran Nikolic was recently injured .
Montenegro roster: Zoran Vucelic (Derby), Vasilije Bacovic (Derby), Aleksa Ilic (Buduchnost), Nikola Vucevic (Chicago Bulls), Filip Andjusic (KK Podgorica), Emir Hajibegovic (Derby), Andrija Slavkovic (Buduchnost), Dino Radoncic (Bayern Munich) .
The SEF is expected to be full as there are few seats left available. Tickets for the Acropolis Aegean tournament can be found online and you can reserve your seat next to the National Team with one click HERE from the comfort of your home. At the same time, tickets will be available on the days of the games from the ticket offices at SEF from 10:00 a.m. until half-time, from where you can also find tickets for Phase 1 of the Pre-Olympic Tournament at preferential prices.
The tradition between Greece and Montenegro
The national team has six wins in seven matches against Montenegro at the Men’s level. In fact, they had also met in the 2023 World Cup, with the “official favorite” knowing her only defeat in Manila.
01/07/2009 (Mediterranean Games / Pescara): Greece-Montenegro 85-67
04/09/2011 (Lithuania Eurobasket / Alitus): Greece-Montenegro 71-55
11/08/2017 (Friendly / Belgrade): Greece / Montenegro 83-81
08/09/2018 (Friendly / Paris): Greece / Montenegro 87-76
01/09/2019 (World Cup / Nanjing) 85-60
03/09/2023 (World Cup / Manila) 69-73
The tournament schedule:
Tuesday 25/6
20.00 Greece-Montenegro
Wednesday 26/6
20.00 Montenegro-Bahamas
Thursday 27/6
20.00 Bahamas-Greece
Source: Sport Fm
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