Her preparation Women’s National For the chef’s Eurobasket (June 18-29) and the Antigone cheeristidou She shared her thoughts on the start of training and the event.
– Have you caught yourself all this time looking forward and heartblock to start preparation? Do you feel like it is different from the previous ones?
“It is certainly very important that there is the transition and that we are gradually entering and we have room to get into the deep and central part of training. But, yes, for sure. It is very important that we have such an event in front of us and will be the Eurobasket in our country, it creates a different aura. ”
– In the draw of Eurobasket teams, Dimitris Diamantidis said he was waiting and would like to see a team fighting in all the games. Do you think this will be the character of the national team?
“I believe that our militancy characterizes us as a country. So we have learned all the years in all national groups and do not lose our character. It will be our strong element, to fight every match and in every minute of the match, to fight for each other. After all, it’s our motto: together! ”
– Knowing the team all these years, what do you think is the biggest difficulty in Eurobasket?
“The greatest difficulty will be to manage the stress of the full stadium, the stress of the world and our own people. It is definitely positive because you will have your family and your friends on the court, which you often have no way to live in such events, but it also gives anxiety about the result. ”
– We have three opponents announced by the roster. Switzerland is certainly unknown at the moment, Turkey will have the savage Maccauan and France looks a little like a European dream team. Talking only about France at this stage, is it a challenge to face the best in the world?
“It’s definitely a challenge. Who does not want to be in the parquet of such rivals? France looks like a superpower of world basketball, it was second in the Olympics, it always shows that it is a very strong team. In such events, it is always special to share the stadium with great players. ”
– Is a Eurobasket a little bit like a dream in Greece and especially on the court that was partly the beginning of all for Greek basketball?
“Really … I was recently watching the 1987 final, it was calendar very close to the day our own Eurobasket begins. It is a huge honor to be on this stadium, it is a dream to live something similar. It is wonderful that it will take place in our country and creates a huge will and appetite for the best. We want to see it full of the world, I hope people come, to live it all together. “
Source: Sport Fm
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