By Cesare Milanti / info@eurohoops.net
From February 20-24, European national teams will fight for spots in FIBA EuroBasket 2025.
The preliminary rosters of all the national teams participating in the upcoming days in the February qualifying window are full of EuroLeague players.
With the EuroLeague taking a break in February, club basketball games won’t collide.
In Group A, Israel should have the Maccabi Tel Aviv duo of Tamir Blatt and Roman Sorkin.
In Group B, Giordano Bortolani, Gugliemo Caruso, Mouhamet Diouf, Alessandro Pajola, Gabriele Procida, Dame Sarr, Matteo Spagnolo will suit up for Italy; Onuralp Bitim, Shane Larkin, Cedi Osman, Ercan Osmani were called up by Ergin Ataman, while Martin Hermannsson should play for Iceland.
Andrejs Grazulis and Arturs Zagars should play for Luca Banchi and Latvia; still in Group C, Spain will only have Joel Parra among the EuroLeague players available.
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Germany still needs to book their ticket for the summer competition and will have Isaac Bonga, Malte Delow, Justus Hollatz, Ivan Kharchenkov, Jonas Mattisseck, Andreas Obst, Louis Olinde, Tim Schneider, Daniel Theis, Johannes Voigtmann, Nelson Weidemann for this window. In Group D, both Codi Miller-McIntyre and Sasha Vezenkov will be available for Bulgaria.
Everything is still up for grabs in Group E, except for Cyprus, which qualified as a co-host. France will have Isaia Cordinier, Petr Cornelie, Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot, Theo Maledon, Elie Okobo, Neal Sako, and Matthew Strazel.
For Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dzanan Musa will be the only EuroLeague player participating, while Croatia will have Danko Brankovic, Mario Hezonja, and Luka Samanic.
In Group F, Greece should have Panagiotis Kalaitzakis, Giannoulis Larentzakis, Dinos Mitoglou, Naz Mitrou-Long, Dimitris Moraitis, Georgios Papagiannis, Kostas Papanikolaou, Ioannis Papapetrou, and Thomas Walkup. Czechia will have Tomas Satoransky.
Despite already qualifying for EuroBasket 2025, Serbia should have Dejan Davidovac, Ognjen Dobric, Marko Guduric, Balsa Koprivica, Arijan Lakic, Nikola Milutinov, Mario Nakic, Filip Petrusev, Aleksej Pokusevski; Denmark called up both Iffe Lundberg and Shavon Shields, while Georgia should have Kamar Baldwin and Tornike Shengelia. Mikael Jantunen will be there for Finland.
Finally, in Group H, Estonia will have Sander Raieste, Lithuania should have Mantas Rubstavicius, while North Macedonia hopes to count on the backcourt composed of Nenad Dimitrijevic and TJ Shorts.
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