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NED - Reaching knockout round, growing game the goals for van Veen
NIEUWEGEIN (U17 World Championship for Women) – Meindert van Veen knows his Netherlands team is not expected to compete for the title when they host the 2012 FIBA U17 World Championship for Women. The goal then for the home nation's head coach is to advance from the group stage in Amsterdam while also getting more people involved in the game through ...
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CZE - Blazek to concentrate on national team
PRAGUE (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Czech Republic coach Lubor Blazek is to put his focus and energy into his position with the national team. USK Prague have announced that Blazek, their long-time boss, will not be on the bench next season although he will continue to work for the club. The veteran tactician will next month ...
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ESP - Making it back to the podium is Rudy’s aim
BARCELONA (Olympics) - Rudy Fernandez has been there for all of the highs that Spain’s national team have experienced the past six years. He was in the squad that won the gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship and in 2008, Fernandez had a starring role as the Spaniards reached the Olympic Final and lost a thriller to the United ...
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EUROLEAGUE - Shved, Spanoulis take center stage
ISTANBUL (Euroleague/FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament) - Andrei Kirilenko has been the face of Russian basketball for more than a decade because of his NBA career with the Utah Jazz and success with the national team. Having returned to his former club CSKA Moscow during the NBA Lockout that delayed the start of this season, and then remained ...
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EUROLEAGUE - Players dreaming of Olympic glory on show at Final Four
ISTANBUL (Euroleague/Olympics) – The best clubs in Europe will meet at another star-studded Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four this weekend. One certainty at the Sinan Erdem Arena is that players on the winning side will gain a huge psychological boost ahead of a very important summer of international basketball. Defending champions ...
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CZE - The comeback kid
PRAGUE (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Ilona Burgrova didn't look very much like a player that was headed for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) for Women with the Czech Republic when she went down with torn ankle ligaments in early February. A leading player in the Czech side that reached the Semi-Finals of last year's ...
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FRA - Diawara back with Les Bleus
PARIS (Olympics) - France have given Yakhouba Diawara an opportunity to make their Olympic team despite the forward's absence of nearly four years from the national side. A 1.98m forward, the 29-year-old was on Wednesday named in France's 18-strong preliminary squad for the London Games. National team coach Vincent Collet has also kept faith with ...
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ESP - Diop's status for U17 up in the air
MADRID (FIBA U17 World Championship) - Ilimane Diop would be a huge factor in Spain’s chances at the 2012 FIBA U17 World Championship, but uncertainty within the national junior ranks has the center’s status for this summer still in question. Diop was named to the All-Tournament Team at the 2011 U16 European Championship as the fifth-best ...
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BEL - Belgium looking for U17 Worlds Women success after 2011 hardware
BRUSSELS (FIBA U17 World Championship for Women) – Belgium will head into the 2012 international summer schedule on the heels of the most successful campaign in their history with hopes of more success at the FIBA U17 World Championship for Women. After finishing fourth at the inaugural U17 Worlds Women in 2010, Belgium’s youngsters took gold ...
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TUR - Shifting the attention to Ankara
ISTANBUL (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - The hard season is finally over for Turkey’s basketball players. Most play for Galatasaray or Fenerbahce. The former won the Turkish Cup, and the latter the league title. Now the players from both sides will unite and play for a national team that is determined to reach the London ...