2024-06-15 22:31:12
The top coach of the nationwide crew, Luka Banki, had included 24 basketball gamers within the expanded circle of nationwide crew candidates, however now their quantity has decreased to 17.
From the prolonged listing of candidates, Škēle, Krišs Helmanis, Ojārs Siliņš, Kārlis Šiliņš, Artis Ate, Mārtiņš Laksa and Toms Leimanis will not be included within the seventeen.
From Monday, June 3, candidates for the nationwide crew have the chance to take part in particular person coaching classes in Riga. The official nationwide crew coaching camp will begin on June 17.
In the course of the preparation, two check matches are deliberate – on June 26, “Enviornment Riga” with the Egyptian nationwide crew and on June 28 away with the Finnish nationwide crew.
The combat for the suitable to play within the Paris Olympic Video games match will happen in “Enviornment Riga” from July 2 to 7.
The nationwide crew of Latvia will play in subgroup A with the nationwide crew of Georgia and the crew of the Philippines. The 2 greatest groups of the subgroup will play among the finest groups of subgroup B (Brazil, Montenegro and Cameroon) within the semi-finals on Saturday. The winners of the semi-final matches will combat for the one ticket to Paris on Sunday, July 7.
Candidates of the Latvian males’s basketball crew for the qualification match of the Paris Olympic Video games:
Rodions Kurucs, Artūrs Kurucs (each – Murcia UCAM, Spain), Mareks Mejeris (Cluj-Napoca U-BT, Romania), Kristaps Porzingis (Boston Celtics, NBA), Dāvis Bertāns (Charlotte Hornets, NBA), Dairis Bertāns (“VEF Riga”), Jānis Timma, Jānis Strēlnieks (each – Obradoiro of Santiago de Campos, Spain), Rolands Šmits (“Žalgiris” of Kaunas, Lithuania), Artūrs Strautiņš (“Derthona of Tortona”, Italy), Klāvs Čavars (“Yokohama”, Japan), Rihards Lomazh (“Bologna” Virtus”, Italy), Andrejs Gražulis (Trento “Aquila”, Italy), Marcis Steinberg (Manreza “Baxi”, Spain), Andrzej Pasečnik (“Palencia”, Spain) , Kristers Zorik (Izmir Petkimspor, Turkey), Artūrs Žagar (Vilnius Wolves, Lithuania).
2024-06-15 22:31:12