European Prospects

The second day in Lignano was already my last day for this time as I can not stay for the Finals on Sunday. Here are the game reportss on the matches from Saturday with two very interesting semi-finals.

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The quarter finals of the U20 European Championships have been played today in a boiling hot Pala Getur in Lignano Sabbiadoro. Here we go for the review on the four games of the day.

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Virtus Bologna achieved his back to back dream after the win in the final against Reyer Venezia. Montepaschi Siena reached the third spot on the podium beating Stella Azzurra Roma in the 3rd/4th place final.

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Reyer Venezia and Virtus Bologna are facing for the title after their wins against Stella Azzurra Roma and Montepaschi Siena.

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Reyer Venezia, Stella Azzurra Roma, Montepaschi Siena and Virtus Bologna won their quarterfinal and got their ticket to the semifinals of Saturday.

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Day 3 of Italy’s under 19 decided the final rankings for each of the four groups. At the end of the day Montepaschi Siena, Virtus Bologna, Reyer Venezia and Stella Azzurra Roma clinched their spot straight into Friday’s quarterfinals, while Aurora Desio, Virtus Eurobasket Roma, Cus Torino and Basket Rimini Crabs ended their experience in […]

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The Italian Under 19 finals are taking place in Udine since yesterday (Mon, 27th) to Sunday (Sun, June 2nd). Giovanni Battista Gerometta is one of the observers of the event and he will provide us with daily reports on the Finals. Due to the fact the games are played on two different courts in this […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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