Reasonable draw for blue-and-whites in the early house of the European Championships to be held in the summer of 2022 in Prague, Tbilisi, Milan and Cologne • Finland and the Netherlands in the same house • Spicy individual: Israeli derby against Nano Ginzburg and his team • Amos Frishman: "There are no easy draws at this level"
Israeli national team players.
Will they also celebrate next summer?
Photo:
Alan Shiver
Serbia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Finland and the Netherlands
will be rivals of the Israeli team in the early home of the European Championships to be held in the summer of 2022, it was determined a few minutes ago in a draw held in Berlin.
It is difficult to estimate what will happen in 16 months, but it can already be said that Israel has won a very reasonable lottery that will allow it to be a serious candidate to advance to the next stage.
Of course Serbia is a rank above the house, but everyone else is a team that can be won.
Either way, a kind of Israeli derby is also expected because the Czech national team is coached by Nano Ginzburg.
Amos Frishman, chairman of the union's professional committee, responded to the lottery results: "First of all, we are proud that the Israeli team advanced to the European Championships the way it did, from first place at home is not easy in a 1-5 balance.
This is the European Championship and there are no easy draws at this level.
I promise that the team will arrive ready for this task and mention that until the European Championships we have 4 more windows of the World Cup qualifiers ahead of us and that is also a goal we set for the team.
"I did not reduce expectations when we were drawn at home with Spain and Poland in the qualifiers and I do not reduce them now, but when we get closer to the championship and know what our squad is, we will be able to set clearer goals.
The most prominent figure in the lottery was of course the legend of the past Dirk Nowitzki who is also the official ambassador of the championship.
The 24 teams were divided into 4 houses. From each house, the first 4 will advance to the final stage (eighth final to final) to be held in Berlin.
The other three hosts of the early houses are: Cologne, Milan, Prague and Tbilisi.
It should be noted that the championship was supposed to take place this summer, but was postponed to the summer of 2022, this is because the Corona has created a multiplicity of this basketball events that have been postponed like the pre-Olympic tournament and the Olympic tournament.
It is not yet known who will coach the team at the championship next summer.
If Oded Katash, who promoted the team to the championship, continues next season at Panathinaikos, he will not be able to fill both positions and will be replaced by another coach.
Other houses: House A - Georgia, Turkey, Spain, Russia, Belgium, Bulgaria.
House B - Germany, Lithuania, France, Slovenia, Hungary, Bosnia.
House C - Italy, Estonia, Greece, Croatia, Ukraine, UK.