On the wings of the European basketball championship, which took place in Slovenia last year, the basketball cream is moving to the already proverbial temperamental Spain, where the 17th world championship will be held from August 30 to September 14. Among the 24 national teams, there will also be a Slovenian team with Goran Dragić at the helm and Jure Zdovac at the helm. The matches will take place in six venues, and our home base will be in Las Palmas, the capital of the Canary Islands.
We barely got a break from WC in football, it's time to start stocking up again nerves. This time, all the more justified, because we are also there Slovenes. And if they were last year European Championship and the preliminaries are some indicator, we are looking forward to it again infarct endings. Admittedly, we don't have to throw matches into it in advance bin, and in basketball everything revolves around him, so we couldn't go wrong with this prediction.
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Spain is World Cup last hosted years 1986, and this will be the last one to take place in four-year cycle, as the next one won't be on the floor until years later 2019, which means that it will no longer share the year with the World Cup in football and the Winter Olympics. Whether they did it with the fans and their "health" in mind, or whether it is an economic calculation, is not even important.
Slovenia she has now settled in well at the SPs, as this will be hers third consecutive appearance, after Japanese in 2006 and Turks four years later. But while there were the Spanish national team (as host) and the national team USA (as an Olympic winner) qualified for the tournament in advance, the others had to fight for tickets continental championships (three tickets were distributed in Africa and Asia, two in Oceania, four in the Americas and six in Europe). Slovenia won its own with 5th place at the domestic European Championship in 2013, FIBA however, it took the right of arbitrary choice and granted more four invitations, which were the result of what happened on the political rather than the basketball floor.
The Slovenian national team is in Spanish Las Palmas eliminated with the scalp of the European runners-up Lithuanians, and with the American traveler August 30 entered the match cycle group work championships. Our first opponent will be the chosen species Australia, and you can see the rest below.
Groups (matches will be played in Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Barakaldo, Sevilla and Las Palmas):
Group A: Spain, Serbia, France, Brazil, Egypt, Iran
Group B: Argentina, Philippines, Senegal, Puerto Rico, Greece, Croatia
Group C: USA, Dominican Republic, Turkey, Finland, New Zealand, Ukraine
Group D: Lithuania, Angola, Slovenia, South Korea, Mexico, Australia
The schedule of matches of the Slovenian national team in the preliminaries:
August 30 – Australia : Slovenia (17:30)
August 31 – Mexico : Slovenia (17:30)
September 2 – South Korea : Slovenia (20:00)
September 3 – Angola : Slovenia (17:30)
September 4 – Lithuania : Slovenia (21:30)
More information: www.fiba.com
