European Prospects

Next to the four European teams that have reached the quarter-finals, I will take a quick look at the other participants to the U17 World Championship 2010. As Spain did not qualify for the last 8, I did not really have the opportunity to scout them so that they ended up in this review only.

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The German U17 National Team came with the ambitions to reach the Quarter-Finals in Hamburg. This goal was reached but somehow, the team of coach Menz disappeared a bit after their elimination on Friday and could not build on their excellent showing from the Albert-Schweitzer Tournament in spring.

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The Serbian team finished finally at the 5th place of the U17 World Championship in Hamburg. After winning the Bronze Medal in Lithuania last summer in the U16 category, this team reached probably his maximum level with this 5th place as top-talent Nenad Miljenovic could not take over the team as he liked to in [...]

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The fourth place of Lithuania can be considered as a surprise as their main player and U16 European Championship MVP Tauras Jogela was missing. The predictions in the Lithuanian press were not very positive either but a team that lacked size and talent but had the cojones to win the games that counted was one [...]

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We start our review of the European teams that participated to the U17 World Championship with Poland. The team that finished 4th at the U16 European Championship in 2009 now won the Silver Medal and showed clearly the best progress of all the European teams that were present.

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The first ever U17 World Championship has ended on Sunday in Hamburg with the victory of the United States. The team from Coach Don Showalter was clearly the best squad in the whole tournament but was also the best US Youth Team I have ever seen, not only in terms of talent but also in [...]

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Today, the final of the first ever U17 World Championship will be played in Hamburg. Poland and Team USA will face each other at 4pm European Time. To put you up in the right mood, check the highlight videos below and subscribe to FIBA TV to watch this exciting game LIVE on your PC at [...]

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Today, the semi-finals of the U17 World Championship have been played in the Sporthalle Hamburg. Team USA faced Canada while Lithuania played against Poland in a European duel.

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In the two other quarter-finals it was all European with Germany facing Lithuania and Serbia being the opponent of Poland.

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Today have been played the Quarter-Finals of the first ever U17 World Championship in Hamburg. In front of about 20 College and NBA scouts, 4 teams qualified for the semi-finals to be played on Saturday. The first two games featured only non-European teams, so let’s go for a review of their respective quarter-finals.

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Last weekend, the first ever Basketball U17 World Championship started in Hamburg. Together with FIBA TV, you can watch all the games starting at the Quarterfinals LIVE via Webstream from this Friday on. Together with the quarter-finals, semi-finals, bronze and gold medal games of the U17 World Championships for Girls, you can subscribe to this [...]

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Here we go for the Day 3 Review on the U17 World Basketball Championships in Hamburg. The day was marked by the blow-out of the hosts who lost by 46 points against Poland.

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The second day of the U17 World Championship in Hamburg is over and there are only three teams left undefeated: USA, Poland and Germany.

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Yesterday started the first ever U17 World Championship in Hamburg. As europeanprospects.com will only be present during the last three days of the tournament, we will do some kind of Press Review of every game day before hand. So here we go for Day1.

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The Serbian team won the Bronze Medal during the U16 European Championship in 2010. This year, the team from the Balkan comes with the same ambitions which are to win yet another Medal. However, our writer calms the expectations of the Serbian fans with his Preview.

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The Lithuanian U16 National Team won the Silver Medal in Kaunas last summer. Now this same generation tries to be as successful on the next level but our Lithuanian author is not that optimistic about their possibilities.

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One of the main favorites for the tournament is of course Team USA. Rodger Bohn explains why this is the case for the first ever U17 World Championship.

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With the tournament starting tomorrow, it is about time to accelerate the pace of preview. So here we go for a first one of lots more to come online tonight: Canada.

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Australia comes to Hamburg with certainly one of their typical teams built around Australian Institute of Sports members. Unfortunately, we could not find a contributor from down under so that I had to go for a Preview on a team that I have never seen play. The article is mainly based on the Press Releases [...]

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Spain won the Gold Medal at the U16 European Championship 2009 in Lithuania. Our friends from www.Eurohopes.com who are based in Spain were of course the perfect authors of the Preview article on the Spanish team for the tournament in Hamburg that will start this Friday.

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