The team that surprised with the Lithuanian European Championship will return to Alytus
The Lithuanian men’s basketball team has announced plans for the upcoming summer competition.
In the summer, Lithuanians will play in the FIBA World Cup qualifiers, and in the autumn of 2022 they will start. European Men’s Basketball Championship.
The first round of summer basketball will begin on June 16th. and will end on July 4, during which Lithuania will play a friendly and two official qualifiers for 2023. World Basketball Championship matches in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia.
The Lithuanian men’s basketball team won four victories and will be able to extend them in the selection subgroup F on July 1. on a trip with Bulgaria and on 4 July. Klaipeda with the Czech Republic. The next selection round will take place on 27 August. Lithuania will start in Group K with the other two strongest teams in Subgroup F (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria or the Czech Republic in the current standings) and three teams in Group E (France, Montenegro and Hungary in the current standings).
The second part of the Lithuanian national team’s summer will start on July 25. and will continue until August 30, when Kazys Maksvytis pupils will leave for 2022. The European Men’s Basketball Championship, which will start in Cologne (Germany) on September 1 with a Group B match against Slovenia, will be followed by France, hosted by Germany, Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lithuanian basketball, the national team will visit all the largest arenas and will not miss Alytus. Lithuanians here will accept Northern Macedonia on 9 August, with whom he will meet in Kaunas on the eve.
Makedonai is a national team that won in Alytus in 2011. Lester McCalebb was at the forefront of the European Basketball Championship group tournament with Pero Antiči in the lead.
After failing 65:70 against Montenegro in the Alytus arena, defeating Croatia 78:76 there, 72:58 Greece, 72:70 Finland, 75:63 Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Macedonians entered the next stage, which operated in S68 in Vilnius. : 59), Georgia (65:63) and lost to Russia (61:63), but in the decisive battles of the European Championship, in the quarterfinals, Kaunas won against Lithuania (67:65), in the semifinals 80:92 did not equal the future champion Spain, in the small final 68: 78 lost to Russia and finished fourth among 24 countries, while Lithuania, the host of the European Championship, remained fifth.
It is true that currently the Macedonians are ranked 53rd in the world ranking, Lithuania is eighth.