European Prospects

The U18 European Championship came into its decisive phase today with the Quarterfinals in Siemens Arena Vilnius. The winners were sure to compete for a Medal but also to be qualified for the U19 World Championship that will be held 2013 in the Czech Republic. So let’s check what happened today.

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The semi-finals and Finals of the U18 European Championship are available LIVE and for FREE on FIBA TV.

Here is the link to follow the games

You can follow the game of the Latvian U18 National Team as a free LIVE Stream on Sportacentrs.com. Here is the schedule

9-8-2012: 17h45 (CET) Latvia – France

10-8-2012: 17h30 (CET) Latvia – Turkey

11-8-2012: 17h30 (CET) Latvia – Bulgaria

14-8-2012: 18h00 (CET) Latvia – Croatia

15-8-2012: 18h00 (CET) Latvia – Slovenia

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Turkey won the Gold Medal of the U16 European Championship of Division A 2012 in Vilnius. The very balanced team managed to overcome France in the Final. See below for a quick scouting report on the main players of the two Finalists.

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The Lithuanian 1992 generation is one of the most successful ever in Europe. It all started with the Olympic Youth Festival in 2007 where the team from the Baltic country won the Gold Medal in the U15 category. They won the Gold Medal in 2008 in the U16 category where they dominated the tournament massively and won all their games by an average margin of 25 points. In 2010, they won Gold as well in the U18 category by beating every opponent again. In 2011, they crowned their age group by winning the U19 World Championship in Riga. The main prospect of that generation was Jonas Valanciunas who in between is a member of the Senior National Team and signed an NBA contract this summer. But even without their big guy, this generation knows nothing else than success.

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Next to the European players that I have analyzed in details a few days ago, there were also a high number of other interesting prospects coming from all around the world. Here is a quick review on the most talented players that are not from Europe.

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In the first part of our review on the U17 World Championship 2012, we take a look at the European players in the event. Four teams had qualified for Kaunas next to the hosts, so this might not be a good representation of whole talent group of the 1995 born players in Europe. But some of the major prospects were present.

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This week will start the U20 European Championships of Division A in Slovenia. Next to the main event, there will also be a B Division competition that is the most interesting by far for the last few years. The talent level is excellent as several top nations will fight for the four spots that will qualify for next year’s A Division contest.

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The last day of the U17 World Championship 2012 started with the same situation than the days before, 30 degrees in the streets and nice atmosphere in the Zalgiris Arena. One major change though, Lithuania has qualified for the Olympic Games in London during the night. But that’s not why we traveled to the Baltic State but to follow the exciting tournament of the best U17 prospects in the world.

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Second day for me in Kaunas and the intensity of the competition was increasing as we approached the semi-finals. But before the showdown in the evening, there were several classification games.

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After arriving in Kaunas in the evening of Thursday, the day started early with a Classification game at 9 o’clock in the morning. That was the beginning of a long day with 6 games ahead.

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