Finland’s main opposition to the Finnish Championship is the pre-dominant world champion Germany. Sweden will bring basketball fans to Tampere. Lithuania’s NBA star is coming out of the European Championships.
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Finland will play in the basketball European Championships in August-September in Tampere, Lithuania, Montenegero, the United Kingdom and Sweden. Tampere is one of the four European Championships, along with Latvian Riga, Cyprus Limassol and Katowice of Poland.
Finland was valued in the fourth basket. Germany and Montenegro from the three -basket were awarded to Finland for the number one basket. From the fifth basket, Finland became the United Kingdom and Sweden from the last sixth basket.
Lithuania was already a sure team for the Finnish opening line, as Finland chose Lithuania as its partner country in advance. In the European Championships, each host selected one partner in advance. Latvia took Estonia, Poland Iceland and Cyprus Greece.
Sweden has last played in the men’s European Championships in 2013. Pelle Larsson and Detroit I stocked Bobi Klintman.
“For fans a fine block”
There is an interesting Finnish side story to the United Kingdom that Salon Vilppi this season’s alien reinforcement Amin Adamu is a British national team player and also represented the country in the European qualifiers.
The toughest team of Tampere in the opening round Germany is the dominant world champion.
Finnish head coach Lassi Tub You can see that Susijeng’s European Championship is interesting.
– Many have probably already stated that this is a great block for fans. One would assume that there is congestion in Tampere at the end of August, Tuovi describes and refers to the expected supporters of both Sweden and Lithuania to Tampere.
If we go according to the original match chart, Finland will face its opening match in Tampere on August 27th. Tuovi sees Swedish as a team that can surprise you in the European Championships.
– Sweden played very good matches in the qualifiers. Larsson and Klintman have shown good signs in the NBA. Their Coren is the most important part. They have been involved for a long time and have access to their skills in the European Championships. There is probably a lot of emotion in the Swedish match, Tuovi estimates the Swedish team.
Lithuanian prestigious basketball media Basketnews also reported on a lot of lottery day to the Lithuanian team. Basketnews information According to the star -minder Domantas Sabonis It’s going to be aside from the European Championships. Basketnews by Sabonis, who suffered injuries, is about to leave the European Championship for personal reasons.
– Sabonis is, of course, their bigger pieces. In any case, Lithuania has been difficult for us. The same as they have, Lithuania will be the pre -favorites of the block, says Lassi Tuovi.
The top four of the opening rounds will advance to the top 16 in the game. The tournament’s follow -up games are played in Latvia in Riga.
The Finnish men’s basketball team now plays sixth in a row at the European Championships. In the previous European Championships in 2022, Finland reached the top eight. That was the best result for Finnish men in the European Championships in 55 years. Finland was sixth in the 1967 European Championships.
Updated at 4:38 pm. Added comments from Lassi Tuov.
Block A (Riga, Latvia): Latvia, Estonia, Portugal, Turkey, Czech Republic, Serbia
Block B (Tampere, Finland): Finland, Lithuania, Sweden, United Kingdom, Montenegro, Germany
Block C (Limassol, Cyprus): Greek, Cyprus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Italy, Spain,
Block D (Poland, Katowice): Poland, Iceland, Belgium, Israel, Slovenia, France