The journey of “Official Favorite” to Eurobasket begins!
Our national team premieres tonight, giving its first test in view of Eurobasket 2025, hosting it Belgium At the Olympic Games (20:00, Sport-fm.gr, ERT 1).
The representative complex of our country has planned a total of seven friendly clashes Until the start of the leading European basketball celebration, with Belgium being, in theory, the easiest opponent. Essentially, tonight’s game is mainly an opportunity to get rid of it, a low -level difficulty match for our internationals to go smoothly after summer inaction.
The federal technician, Vassilis Spanoulishe is pleased to count on all his players, with the “blue -white” superstar, Giannis Antetokounbosto be incorporated in preparation by Monday (04/08). In fact, “Greek Freak” published his first “Blue -white” photos with a wide smile!
Recall that the national preparation started ten days ago with the participation of 19 playerswith roster cuts most likely to be expected after completing the friendly Cyprus Tournament The next weekend, where National will face Serbia (09/08) and Israel (10/08).
Like last year at the chef’s pre -Olympic tournament, so this year, The “thirst” and the longing of the fan of the public to see the “blue -white” are huge. It is indicative that in today’s friendly they are expected about 8 to 10 thousand spectatorsimpressive number for early August!
As for Belgium, will participate in the 4th Eurobasket group Together with France, host Poland, Israel, Slovenia and Iceland. In the 19th involvement of its history in Eurobasket, Dario Gergia’s team will be deprived of the services of the two NBAERs, Toumani Kamara and Agiai Mitchell.
The prehistory:
As for the prehistory of the two countries, Greece has prevailed at 15 of their 19 clasheswith the first game between them dating from 1951.
12.05.1951 Eurobasket (Paris) 28-39
03.06.1959 Friendly (Athens) 67-80
08.05.1973 Eurobasket Qualifiers (Sobateli) 73-67
11.06.1979 Eurobasket (Turin) 92-68
05.01.1981 International Tournament (Stockholm) 76-68
06.05.1981 Eurobasket qualifiers (Istanbul) 90-78
23.05.1982 Eurobasket qualifiers (Porto) 97-72
01.05.1984 Friendly (Namur) 92-87
02.05.1984 Friendly (Brussels) 70-88
03.09.1984 International Tournament (Nandalin) 85-74
28.02.1998 Eurobasket qualifiers (Drama) 79-58
27.02.1999 Eurobasket qualifiers (Charleroi) 82-73
21.11.2001 Eurobasket qualifiers (Chalkida) 88-49
20.11.2002 Eurobasket qualifiers (Liege) 92-59
21.08.2011 International Tournament (Bamberg) 70-61
09.08.2015 Friendly (Antwerp) 59-64
12.09.2015 Eurobasket (Lille) 75-54
28.08.2022 Second Qualifying Phase World Cup (OAKA) 85-68
14.11.2022 Second Qualifying Phase World Cup (MONS) 72-70
Source: Sport Fm
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