The end of an era: Final FIBA game for Bert van Slooten

At 11.30 today a historic game will tip off. After 20 seasons with FIBA the international career of our former coach Bert van Slooten comes to and end. He will administer the tipoff for Slovakia versus Luxembourg and have Orhan Cagri and Polat Parlak as his partners. The season before he got to the international stage I got to do a cup game in Hoofddorp with him. It’s still one of the highlights of my active career. The game of today can be seen down below:

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Espe Carsten & Yana in one world cup crew

On opening day of this world cup we are already having an all oficiatingscool crew. Much to our delight (and we certainly hope theirs too) the nomination for Canada vs China consists of three of our community members. Espe Mendoza from Spain will administer the opening tip, accompanied by German Carsten Straube, and Yana Nikogossyan from Kazakhstan. The tip-off  will take place at 14.45 and the games are on Courside1891 and on FIBA’s YouTube.

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Worldcup WU19 tips off: Nominations

Today will see the tipoff of a big tournament in Spain: Worldcup WU19 has its opening day and the fans of our community member Yana Nikogossian will be happy to see her in action there. She will feature in the crew for Canada-China with Espe Mendoza and Carsten Straube!

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Quarter finals day Division A nominations

Don’t you just love it when the heat is on in the tournaments? Quarter final day in Heraklion, Greece for division A MU20. We’ve seen impressive performances of the players there, and officiating has been at a high level too.  Here are your nominations for today!
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MU20 div A nominations


In division A of Mens U20 tournament there’s two game days before the final resting day on Friday. Less teams in division A means a little less games. But still 8 games a day means a lot of interesting matches and crews. Yesterday it was announced that amongst others the two Italian aces Manuel Attard and Manuel Mazzoni both will act on the Worldcup later this year too. So tune in on their games and learn from the best! Lees verder “MU20 div A nominations”

MU20 division B nominations

Play continues in Skopje for the Mu20 division B so that means interesting ways of getting better as a referee. Watching the games will help you in recognizing situations that might happen in your own games, help you in grasping the importance of IOT and whether we like it or not: the importance of looking good on a field. Youtube is the keyword and the nominations are down below: Lees verder “MU20 division B nominations”