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U18 European Championship 2010 Division A: the Guards

August 5th, 2010 · 3 Comments

To start our review on the most interesting players of the 2010 European Championship in Vilnius, we attack with the guards of the top 8 teams of the competition. I was not able to follow other team than the Quarter-Final and the relegation teams, the report will only include prospect issued from these 12 nations. […]

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Nordic Championships: U18 Review

May 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments

The Nordic Championships 2010 are now over for one week so it was about time to go through the different player scoutings. We will start today with the review of the most talented U18 players that were present in Solna.

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Nordic Championships 2010: Day 3 (live from Solna)

May 14th, 2010 · No Comments

The third day of the Nordic Championships 2010 was also my last day in Sweden. I really liked the tournament and talent level was also very interesting. Here we go for the round-up of Friday’s action before the detailed player reports will go online somewhere next week.

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Nordic Championships 2010: Day 2 (live from Solna)

May 13th, 2010 · No Comments

The second day of the 2010 edition of the Nordic Championships is over and we had the possibility to see all the teams at least once now. Here we go for the round-up of Thursday’s action.

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Nordic Championships 2010: Day 1 (live from Solna)

May 12th, 2010 · No Comments

We arrived this morning in the sunny Stockholm to cover for the first time the Nordic Championships. This tournament features the U18 and U16 Boys and Girls National Teams of the five Scandinavian countries: Iceland, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden as a host. Here is the roundup of the first day in the Boys competition.

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Quick update on Swedish Youth Championships

April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

The different Swedish Youth Championships have been played over the last days and as Sweden is considered as one of the growing places in terms of Basketball, it was worth to take a closer look at who were the main players, especially also as a preparation for the Nordic Championships that europeanprospects.com will attend in […]

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Is Sweden becoming the new Eldorado for talent scouts? (Pt2: the main prospects)

March 29th, 2010 · 4 Comments

After having presented the reasons for the recent upswing of Swedish Basketball in the first part of our article, I will focus today on those prospects that represent the future of Swedish Basketball. The players mentioned are only those being born in 1991 or younger though.

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Generation Ranking: 1993 born players

February 4th, 2010 · 6 Comments

What counted for the 1992 generation is also valid for the 1993 born players. Because of the limited number of times I could scout these players, the Ranking will only feature 15 teams. This generation will play the U17 World Championship this summer in Hambourg (Germany).

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2009 U16 European Championship B Division Report

November 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

With a few months of delay, here we go for a report on some of the most interesting players of the 2009 FIBA Europe U16 European Championship of Division B. As I could by far not see all players (I was limited to several games on tape), this report is far from being complete. The […]

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Nordic Championships 2009 review (U16)

June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Here we go for the second part of Hippo’s review on the Nordic Championships 2009 with the report on the U16 tournament.

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