European Prospects

The Türk Telekom Tournament, one of the major U16 events, will start this Saturday in Sakarya. Twelve teams have been invited to participate and we wanted to take a quick look at who might shine in the week of action.

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After the tournament and a seventh place for the German team, I had the possibility to ask a few questions to the German U16 coach Alexander Krüger about his team and the German basketball in general.

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The excellent official website of the tournament features interviews with some of the coaches of the different U16 National teams and some of them gave the names of the players they wanted to mention as the best potential.

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After five days of intensive basketball, the quarter finals for the probably strongest U16 tournament in Europe are set and will be played this Friday in Sakarya.

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The Türk Telekom U16 Tournament is about to start tomorrow and so the Turkish federation just put the official website of the tournament online. You can find there the rosters of the different participating teams as well as all the dates of the games. Although the official opening of the tournament will be tomorrow, Turkey […]

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I have already talked about the Hikmet Erden Tournament in Turkey for U16 teams. The Turkish federation now published their official roster but also a change in the name of the tournament and some other participants than previously announced.

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The Turkish Basketball federation will organize a very important U16 tournament in February and tries to build something similar to the Albert Schweitzer Tournament for the U16 age category.

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