European Prospects

The hosts of the first ever U17 World Championship come with high hopes to the competition. Germany did not qualify by the result but the team has shown its value during the Albert Schweitzer Tournament in spring. Kay Blümel gives us his opinion on the German U17 National Team.

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Poland finished with a very surprising 4th place at the Under 16 European Championship last summer in Lithuania. This great generation is also the core of the U17 team that plays the World Championship in Hamburg. We spoke with the Polish youth coach Robert Kosciuk who gave us a great insight on the main players […]

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Today, we take a look at the Chinese U17 team that will compete in the World Championships in Hamburg. The article though has not been written by a local Chinese journalist but it is based on different Chinese sources.

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A new competition implicates new features on Europeanprospects.com. With the upcoming first ever U17 World Championship in Hamburg, I decided to check out with different authors from all around the globe to get an insight and preview on their team. At the moment where I write this introduction, I am not quite sure if I […]

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With the regular seasons coming to an end in most of the countries, there are more and more federations publishing preliminary rosters for the different Summer events like the U17 World Championships or the different European Championships. We took a closer look at some of the names that have been published over the last days.

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This Friday, the FIBA Central Board has decided unanimously to give the organization of the 2010 U17 World Basketball Championship to Germany. The other candidates have been France, China and Kazakhstan. While China stepped back in order to show the German-Chinese friendship, France got the rights for the organization of the U17 Women World Championship […]

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