The Israeli national team will try to leave behind the disappointing losses last weekend as part of the World Championship qualifiers and embark on a new journey in Group D of the European Championship which will be held in Prague and will start this Friday.
Jacob Meir, Prague
The preparations in Prague are already in the final stages and the local organizers are already prepared to receive all the teams and the fans who will come with them.
The five national teams that will fight with Israel for the four tickets to the knockout stages that will take place in Berlin are: Serbia, Finland, Poland, the Netherlands and of course the host Czech Republic.
According to the organizers, the Serbs and Finns should bring the largest amount of fans to the Czech capital.
Israel will be accompanied by several hundred fans who will come from the country, some already at the end of this week and some will arrive at the beginning of the week and watch the last three games in the group stage.
The hotel where the team will stay, photo: Yaakov Meir
The team will land in Prague tomorrow (Wednesday) in the early afternoon and after settling in the fancy Marriott hotel where all the teams will be staying, they will go to the first training session at 02 Arena.
The team's schedule (Israel time, in the Czech Republic the times are one hour behind):
Friday 2.9 at 15:00: Finland
Saturday 3.9 at 22:00: Serbia
Sunday off
Monday 5.9 at 15:00: Poland
Tuesday 6.9 at 22:00: Serbia
Wednesday off
Thursday 8.9 at 18:30: Czech Republic
*If Israel finishes in one of the first four places, it will continue to the knockout stages that will take place in Berlin.
If and when, Israel's match in the round of 16 will be held on Sunday, September 11, and as it turns out, the opponent will be one of the three: Greece of Yannis Antetokounmpo, the intriguing Italy that will be missing its star Danilo Gallinari, who was injured in the last few days, and Croatia, which is trying to recover from the big failure in the World Championship qualifiers.
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