European Prospects

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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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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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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This summer, I had the opportunity to go for my first ever U16 European Championship and combine it with a first ever trip to the Basketball country of Lithuania. I decided to make just a short scouting report on the teams I have seen (Places 1-8) as these kids are all only 16, or even […]

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The final day of the 2009 U16 European Championship has arrived and the decisions will arrive about Gold, Silver and Bronze. But the day started of course with the games for the places 5 to 8.

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Having arrived in Kaunas yesterday late, it has been a full basketball day today in the legendary Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas Hall, the oldest basketball arena in Europe for the U16 European Championship of Division A 2009.

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