Meseman: “I still haven’t figured out how we won-I have never experienced such a game”

OR Emma Meseman At 32 she has conquered everything, but such a finale like his Final of Eurobasket Women’s He has not lived again and is still trying to realize how Belgium returned from -12 to four minutes to make the back-to-back.

“I still find it difficult to understand how we did it. But we believed to the end, in a final you always play for your pride and you want to fall up your head. I have played a lot of games in my career, but never. It is a good message of reminder that you should not give up, in sports or in life. In the last phase we went first to steal and if we didn’t make it we would foul. We were lucky because Spain was wrong, stealing and scoring. I was stunned for a while when this phase was done. I have never felt like that again. We went from hell to paradise in a few seconds. It is very difficult to make back-to-back, it is very difficult to defend a title, because everyone treats you loudly, you are not underdog and you have a goal on your back. It means a lot to us that we have succeeded. If you told us in 2017 that we would do so, no one would believe it. But we made a great effort. We have achieved something great, not only with the titles, but with the interest of women’s basketball in Belgium. ” For me every title is special and I want to enjoy it. We are not a big country that can download two and three powerful teams, such as France. So I will forever remember this success“, Stressed the MVP of the event.

The Belgian coach, the 74 -year -old Mike Timbohe said in his turn: ‘It was an awesome game. Spain played amazingly, but we managed to stay in the match. Things didn’t look good when we were at -12 with four minutes left, but we insisted. We took out some good defenses and scored. Congratulations to Spain, we have managed to find a way to win. You may not always win in a beautiful way, but it matters that we have succeeded. One of the reasons I took over this position was that. I’m spoiled to have a player like Emma. I am intrigued by the story of basketball in Europe, Belgium is a small country, it has no plethora of players such as France or Spain, but it has a lot of talent. I had no intention of training again, but after discussions with my family I felt it was the right one for me”