3×3 basketball won the elections in Bucharest

In a weekend when the local elections took place in Romania, a few thousands youngsters voted for 3×3 basketball as their main candidate. More than 800 players, registered in only 24 hours on the previous week, followed by almost 3000 fans, came to express their vote and their feelings about the sport they love at Sport Arena Streetball, the only 3×3 championship in Romania and one of the few in the world. The second stage of the 2012 regular season was hot for a few more reasons than the weather,…

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Bigica: Sport Arena Streetball is about the atmosphere

Cristina Bigica, one of the most valuable young players from Romania, is talking about the 3×3 basketball, but also about her first year at Marquette University. Cristina is an important member of the Sport Arena Streetball family, and last year she won Tournament 3 together with her teammates from Sparks Team. About Sport Arena Streetball… The thing I like the most is the atmosphere. Every time I was at home, in Bucharest, and the tournament was going on, I was there, because I like to spend time with the people…

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Sport Arena Streetball, basketball and fun in Bucharest

The Sport Arena Streetball Championship, a FIBA 3×3 World Tour Qualifier, scheduled the first of its five tournaments last weekend, and the weather was not a good teammate at all. But if the rain never stopped for almost three days in Bucharest, so was the basketball. A gym, situated near the Sport Arena Streetball state of the art outdoor facility, was the perfect place to make the deadliest crossover on the rain and to keep playing no matter what. And the show went on and on, from Friday afternoon until late Sunday…

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Football star played basketball at Sport Arena

Not only the basketball players were the stars of the weekend. Bogdan Stelea, the former goalkeeper of the Romanian national football team (World Cup 1994 and 1998 and Euro 1996), showed his skills on basketball court, and amazed everybody with his scoring abilities. Stelea, the one that saved the Romanian national football team from so many goals, had also the taste of the offense at Sport Arena Streetball, scoring basket after basket. Next to him, in the “All Star Team” was the former Euroleague and Eurocup player and the captain…

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Basketball never stops at Sport Arena Streetball

This year, Sport Arena Streetball offers the basketball lovers even more from the sport they love so much. It’s the eight year we organize the one and only streetball championship in Romania, and we thought about raising the stakes. So, next to the five traditional tournaments of the Sport Arena Streetball championship, four regulars and one Master, we will organize our first international tournament, the Sport Arena Bucharest Challenger (4th-5th of August), which will also have the status of a FIBA World Tour qualifier. The winning team of the Sport…

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