Author: Andu Kedei

Missing3x3: Full House at the First Stop of BCR Sport Arena Streetball

Andu Kedei

“It’s so cool, I missed it so much” was the most frequently heard phrase, in one form or another, among the hundreds of participants at the first stop of the national 3×3 basketball circuit, BCR Sport Arena Streetball, which was played from Friday to Sunday on the courts at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. After 251 days since the last game of the 2023 season, at the final in Constanța, the 3×3 basketball community reunited at Politehnica, the place where the story of this Olympic discipline began almost 20 years…

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Returns, Transfers, and Newcomers at the First Stop of BCR Sport Arena Streetball 2024

Andu Kedei

In the off-season, some basketball players found a new home, others are returning to the most popular urban sport, while some will make their debut in the Open category. Bogdan Sandu participated in all the stops of last season, representing only one team, CSU Pitești. At the first tournament of 2024, he will play alongside Rahova Finest, one of the most famous teams in the BCR Sport Arena Streetball circuit. In fact, Sandu has played for this team before, back in 2018, along with Cătălin Vlaicu and Cătălin Bordei, two…

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Champions League winner at Sport Arena Streetball: Alexia Căruțașu kicked off the final in the 3×3 basketball tournament

Andu Kedei

More than 600 players, registered in less than two hours, participated in the second Sport Arena Streetball tournament of 2023, with a total of 143 teams registered in the 13 age categories. The competition, which this year celebrates its 18th birthday, scheduled 257 3×3 basketball games from Friday to Sunday in a legitimate outdoor sports festival. The second stop of the national 3×3 Sport Arena Streetball basketball circuit ended with the victory of the Foreign Ballers, who dramatically defeated, 17-15, the first stop champion CSM Constanta. Recent winner of the…

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Sixth World Cup for the Romanian women team

Andu Kedei

From 30 May to 4 June Vienna will be the eighth host of the 3×3 World Cup. The Romanian women’s national team will participate for the sixth time in the history of the competition. Romania is seeded 12th out of 20 teams. There are four groups of five national teams, with the team with the best record in each group qualifying directly for the quarter-finals. For the other four places that will complete the quarter-final draw, a play-in will be played, where the second place in one group will face…

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CSM Constanta and Agro Squad dominated the first Sport Arena Streetball tournament. 10-year-olds, protagonists in a unique slam-dunk competition

Andu Kedei

CSM Constanța and Agro Squad, the team of the Bucharest club Agronomia, shared their success in the elite categories in the first Sport Arena Streetball tournament of 2023. The 3×3 basketball competition, in which more than 500 players participated, ended on Sunday evening on the courts of the Politehnica University of Bucharest. The finals of both the Men’s Open and Women’s Open categories had the same protagonists. The Agro girls, with Sonia Ursu, Romania’s representative at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Gamesnin the spotlight, won the final against CSM Constanta, 20-16.…

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First news about the 2023 Sport Arena Streetball season

Andu Kedei

The 2023 season of the 3×3 basketball circuit Sport Arena Streetball will start on the 12-14 weekend in May, with a tournament that will take place at the Poli Arena sports base, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.  The new season also comes with a number of changes both in terms of the prizes at stake and the registration and participation fees.  Thus, for the first time in the history of Sport Arena Streetball, cash prizes will be awarded in several age categories, not only in the Men’s Open, and…

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Basketball at the Palace! Huge 3 × 3 basketball event right in the Palace of Parliament

Andu Kedei

Bucharest will be the world capital of 3 × 3 basketball for three days and will host a super-tournament in an exclusive location. FIBA 3 × 3 World Finals is played between September 17 and 19 right in the Palace of Parliament, in the Union Hall. The event organized by the Romanian Basketball Federation and Sport Arena Streetball will bring together 24 national teams that will fight for the three titles: the champion of the FIBA 3×3 U23 Nations League, men’s and women’s circuits and the women’s tour champion. Unlike…

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From Constanța Casino to the Eiffel Tower: Eight teams have earned tickets to the FIBA 3×3 Euro Cup in Paris

Andu Kedei

In an iconic location for the city of Constanța, few steps from the famous Casino, 3×3 basketball dominated the landscape last weekend, at the qualifying tournament for the FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup, held by the City Hall of Constanța. Eight teams have obtained tickets for the final FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup tournament which will take place between September 10 and 12 in Paris, near the famous Eiffel Tower. Ukraine and Lithuania managed to qualify with both nationals, men and women. Estonia and the Netherlands for men, along with Hungary and…

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For the third time in a row, Constanța will host a qualifying tournament for the 3×3 Europe Cup

Andu Kedei

The international 3×3 basketball competitions will return to Romania at the end of June, 26-27, when Constanța will host, for the third time in a row, a qualifying tournament for the 3×3 Europe C. The FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup Qualifier tournament presented by Superbet will bring together 27 teams from 15 countries at the arranged arena on the Casino seafront. The event is organized by the Romanian Basketball Federation, the Constanța County Basketball Association and Sport Arena Streetball with the support of Constanța City Hall and will be broadcast live…

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We are back!

Andu Kedei

The Sport Arena Streetball 3×3 basketball tour resumed after a 20-month break. Around 500 players registered for this tournament that was played on the courts where this discipline started its road to the Olympic Games, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, where the fighter from Glory, Benny Adegbuyi, came to support the youngest participants. Benny surprised the kids at the under-12 category and played with them on the court, proving that basketball played in the high school yard is never forgotten. He scored a few baskets, and the children called…

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