2024-06-14 05:28:45
In splendid circumstances, the mini-preparation of the Nationwide Girls’s basketball group continues in Ioannina forward of the “Vasso Beskaki” match, which shall be held on the New Indoor Gymnasium of Ioannina between June 17-19, with the teaching employees and the gamers having right now a primary assembly with the representatives of the native media.
Preparation circumstances, the objectives of the Girls’s Nationwide Staff and girls’s basketball basically had been on the middle of the statements on the Media Day, which passed off on the finish of the morning coaching session.
“It’s spectacular how a small fitness center is so well-kept”, emphasised the group’s coach Petros Prekas in his statements and requested the individuals of Ioannina to be within the stands on the times of the match, which has been held three years in reminiscence of Vassos Beskakis , the previous Sporting and Nationwide group participant, who handed away on the age of 46 after an uneven battle with most cancers.
“We got here right here to communicate with the gymnasts and keep united. In the meanwhile, after all, we now have some shortcomings. Within the match, nevertheless, you will note many new faces who’re within the Nationwide group. From right here on, the following official occasions for us are the “home windows” of the Eurobasket 2025 qualifiers in November and February, the outcomes of that are crucial for the rating and the draw. After all, subsequent summer time we now have the occasion in Athens, the place we are going to do our greatest”, he emphasised, including that crucial factor, past the outcomes, is to convey new women to the sector. “It is crucial to have groups within the area, not only for girls’s basketball, however for all sports activities. The vital factor is for the supply to develop”, he famous, when requested in regards to the girls’s group of PAS Ioannina and its consolidation in A1.
The captain of the group, Artemis Spanou, expressed her pleasure for her presence in Ioannina with the Nationwide Staff, noting that the women, who’re within the group for the primary time and are the youngest, can present that they’re at this stage and assist to little by little, a small stone shall be launched initially for the “home windows” of November and February and alongside the best way for subsequent 12 months’s Eurobasket. “The ambiance within the Nationwide Staff is at all times good, and we wish to hold it that manner. That is the group tradition. Let’s have enjoyable, play good basketball and be collectively”, she added, whereas, when requested to touch upon the principle variations between the Girls’s championship in Greece and international nations, she centered primarily on France. “France is at the moment the most effective by way of group and professionalism. The stadiums are filling up. Greater than 5,000 individuals attend every venue. There’s definitely a distinction, however we in Greece are additionally heading in the right direction. Some steps have been taken in recent times and I hope the following ones shall be even higher”, he answered.
The worldwide gamers Penelope Pavlopoulou, Renia Karlafti and Elena Bosgana additionally expressed their gratitude for the hospitality in Ioannina, promising arduous work forward of the Eurobasket in our nation in 2025.
The central determine is Dina Sarigiannidou
PAS captain Giannina Dina Sarigiannidou, who redeemed her wonderful 12 months with a call-up to the nationwide group, additionally participates within the ten-day coaching session.
“It’s a nice honor that I used to be invited to the Nationwide group to reside this expertise. The ladies are wonderful. They assist me lots in my adaptation as a result of it isn’t straightforward. I am studying new issues and I hope to stick with it. I hope the individuals of Ioannina will come to the match video games. We’re ready for him. The followers within the metropolis help girls’s basketball lots and I hope they are going to present it by filling the stadium”, she emphasised in her statements, unable to cover her pleasure for the chance she was given.
The coach of the nationwide group, Petros Prekas, additionally expressed his pleasure for Dina Sarigiannidou’s participation within the nationwide group. “She had an excellent aggressive 12 months and we needed to acknowledge that and invite her to the Nationwide Staff. The common age of the gamers right here could also be younger, however for us, Dina is younger. Her temper and her vitality are vital,” he mentioned.
The hope that Dina Sarigiannidou will comply with the official duties of the Nationwide Staff, expressed the Deputy Regional Governor of Sports activities Haris Lazanis, in flip calling on the individuals to fill the Neo Klisto on the times of the match, the doorway to which shall be free. He didn’t fail to thank the Hellenic Basketball Federation for selecting Ioannina for the preparation and the “Vasso Beskaki” match, saying that for the Area of Epirus, sport is a pillar of tourism.
Coaching additionally in Limnopoula
Tomorrow, at 6:30 p.m., the Nationwide Girls’s Basketball Staff will maintain its first coaching session on the indoor fitness center of Limnopoula, which may also be used for coaching by the nationwide groups of Croatia and Denmark, which is able to take part within the third “Vasso Beskaki” match.
The coaching session shall be preceded by statements to the native media from the president of the PEAKI Administration Committee Panagiotis Davis and from athletes of the Nationwide Staff.
Go to to the Little one Safety Unit
The Nationwide Girls’s Basketball Staff will go to the Ioannina Little one Safety Unit on Thursday, June 13, at 6:30 p.m., so as to meet and speak with the teenage women of the Unit in regards to the worth of the sports activities splendid.