MU20 division A: finals day nominations

The division A championships of MU20 taking place in Heraklion Greece are coming to and end as well. The two Italian refs that got their names called for the world cup later this year in Japan are not making the final here. Who are you ask?? Check down below and see for yourselves.

10.00 Poland – Estonia
Marius Ciulin (Romania), Stylianos Symeonidis (Greece), Patrick Müller (Germany)

12.30 Iceland – Slovenia
Martin Vulic (Croatia), Alin Faur (Romania), Chess van Looy (Belgium)

12.30 Serbia – Germany
Gintaras Vitkauskas (Lithuania), Alberto Sanchez (Spain), David Tomasson (Iceland)

15.00 Serbia – Croatia
Manuel Mazzoni (Italy), Mehmet Sahin (Turkey), Manuel Attard (Italy)

15.00 Italy – Spain
Radomir Vojinovic (Montenegro), Can Mavisu (Turkey), Domen Krajnc (Slovenia)

17.30 (bronze medal)Greece – Belgium
Ademir Zurapovic (Bosnia), Mikhel Männiste (Estonia), Alexandre Maret (France)

17.30 Turkey – Lithuania
Martin Ciulin (Romania), Martin Culic (Croația), Lukasz Jankowski (Poland)

20.00 France – Israel
Aleksandar Glisic (Serbia), Gvidas Gedvilas (Lithuania), Peter Praksch (Hungary)

MU20 division B: Finals day nominations

In Skopje we are witnessing the final day of the MU20 division B tournament. The final is later today but there are several classification games today, The nominations of the games, and as always the games are on FIBA YouTube.

09.00 Azerbajjan – Albania
Nikolaos Tziopanos (Greece), Ngadhjim Shabani (Kosovo), Alexander Eger (Austria)

11.00 Great Britain – Switzerland
Rafis Misirovs (Latvia), Angel Ivanov (Bulgaria), Fatjon Malevi (Albania)

11.30 Slovakia – Luxembourg
Bert van Slooten (Netherlands), Orhan Cagri Hekimoglu (Turkey), Polal Parlak (Turkey)

13.30 Netherland – Portugal
Zdenko Zubak (Slovakia), Lain McDonald (Great Britain), Mikheil Vartanov (Georgia)

14.00 Hungary – Ireland
Arnaud Komnjilo (Cameroon), Rikard Eriksson (Seden), Elias Anttonen (Finland)

16.00 Bulgaria- Finland
Jan Baloun (Czechia), Edgard Ceccarelli (France), Joaquin Garcia Gonzalez (Spain)

16.30 Latvia – Georgia
Mladen Lucic (Montenegro), Balazs Meszaroș (Hungary), Tomi Panov (North Macedonia)

18.30 (3rd place) Ukraine – Sweden
Zafer Yilmaz (Turkey), Ritvars Helmsteins (Latvia), Tomasz Langkowski (Poland)

19.00 Kosovo – Austria
Zdenko Tomasovic (Slovakia), Alakbar Hasanov (Azerbajjan), Fatjon Kalevi (Albania)

21.00 (final) North Macedonia – Czech Republic
Sergei Zashchuk (Ukraine), Vladimir Jevtovic (Serbia), Tiao Roxo Perdigão (Portugal)

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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