The National Children’s team is ready to qualify for the U16 Eurobasket final after 25 years!

The qualification to the grand final of one Eurobasket U16 for the fifth time in its history and the first since the distant 1999, it will seek to succeed tonight (18:30, sport-fm.gr, FIBA ​​TV YouTube) the Children’s national team!

Last Wednesday (14/08), the representative group of our country celebrated a great victory over of Turkey with a score of 75-65ensuring his presence in the semi-finals of the event. With an amazing appearance and winning character in the fourth period, but also with the Alexander Tsoni of Doukas scoring 11 of his total 18 points in the final quarter, Greece qualified for 10th time in its history at “4” of the European Children’s Championship.

His team Yannis Kalambokis has so far presented an excellent face in the tournament held in “Dyo Aorakia” of Heraklion, Crete, counting only wins in five games! In the group stage, the “blue and white” prevailed with 78-59 against Israel, with 77-63 against Croatia, and also with 65-53 against Italy, before eliminating Poland with characteristic comfort in the “16” phase (68-55). . As it happens in the Men’s team, so also in our younger age groups, our senior “weapon” is defense, which constitutes the DNA and the “backbone” of Greek basketball!

Against her, our National Children’s team will find her Spainwhich also comes with the absolute number of victories after five games in the tournament, having one of the best teams of the tournament. It is characteristic that “Roha” is first and by a difference from the other teams in scoring with a 91.2 point averagewhile leading the stats in both rebounds (54.8) and assists (22.6), she was third in steals with 11.6 per game.

The winner of the pair will face their winner in Sunday’s grand final France-Serbiawhich will be held tonight at 21:00. The losers of the semi-finals will compete for the bronze medal.