Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger 2018: Team Novi Sad Al Wahda (UAE)

The most famous streetball team on the planet. With a perfect 2018 season, they managed to win five consecutive tournaments between 30 june- 21 july: FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup Qualifier in Constanta, the tournaments in Oroszlany (even with the absence of Dusan Bulut at this event), in Novi Sad, Bar, as in the first event of the World Tour series in 2018, played in Saskatoon, Canada. Novi Sad Al Wahda has won six tournaments until this moment in the 2018 season.

Star Player

Dusan Bulut

• 32 years, 1.91m, Novi Sad(Serbia)
• World Rank: 4
• National Rank: 4

Ranked on 4^th place in the World Ranking, Dusan Bulut is unquestionably the most important name in modern streetball history. He owns four “World Champion” titles and one silver medal out of five tournaments. Althought the competition gets even more serious every year, Bulut remains a benchmark of the 3×3 world.

Best results:

1^st Plaxe – FIBA 3×3 World Cup (2012, 2016, 2017, 2018), winner of the FIBA World Tour (WT) in 2014 and 2015, WT Final Abu Dhabi (october 2015), WR Rio de Janeiro (september 2015), Abu Dhabi 3×3 Tour Quest Final (june 2016), Moscow Open (july 2016), WT Debrecen (september 2016), WT Beijing (september 2016), WT Utsunomiya (july 2017), WT Prague (august 2017), ING-DiBa Berlin 3×3 Challenger (september 2017), FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup Qualifier Romania (june 2018), WT Saskatoon (july 2018)

2^nd Place – FIBA 3×3 World Cup (2014), 3×3 FIBA Europe Cup (2016)

3^rd Place – European Games Baku (2015)

Results in 2018:

1^st Place – FIBA 3×3 World Cup, FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup Qualifier, 3×3 NoviSad, Bar Satellite, WT Saskatoon

2^nd Place – Ghetto Basket Ventspils Challenger

3^rd Place – Wuxi Challenger, Huaian Challenger, Ulaanbaatar Challenger, DECATHLON B33 TOUR 2018 II. – 3×3 WTM Qualifier Pecs

4^th Place – Gigantes do 3×3

Dejan Majstorovic

– 30 years, 2.00 m, Stari Banovci (Serbia)

– World Rank: 1

– National Rank: 1

Best Results:

1^st Place – FIBA 3×3 World Cup (2016, 2017, 2018), winner of the FIBA World Tour (WT) in 2014 and 2015, WT Final Abu Dhabi (october 2015), WR Rio de Janeiro (september 2015), Abu Dhabi 3×3 Tour Quest Final (june 2016), Moscow Open (july 2016), WT Debrecen (september 2016), WT Beijing (september 2016), WT Utsunomiya (july 2017), WT Prague (august 2017), ING-DiBa Berlin 3×3 Challenger (september 2017), FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup Qualifier Romania (june 2018), WT Saskatoon (july 2018)

2^nd Place – FIBA 3×3 World Cup (2014), 3×3 FIBA Europe Cup (2016)

3^rd Place – European Games Baku (2015)

Results in 2018:

1^st Place – FIBA 3×3 World Cup, FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup Qualifier, DECATHLON B33 TOUR 2018 FINAL – 3×3 WTM Qualifier Oroszlany, 3×3 NoviSad, Bar Satellite, WT Saskatoon

2^nd Place – Ghetto Basket Ventspils Challenger

3^rd Place – Wuxi Challenger, Huaian Challenger, Ulaanbaatar Challenger, DECATHLON B33 TOUR 2018 II. – 3×3 WTM Qualifier Pecs

4^th Place – Gigantes do 3×3

Marko Zdero

– 33 years, 1.90 m, Novi Sad (Serbia)

– World Rank: 10

– National Rank: 10

Best results:

1^st Place – FIBA 3×3 World Cup (2012, 2016, 2017, 2018), WT Final Abu Dhabi (october 2015), WR Rio de Janeiro (september 2015), Abu Dhabi 3×3 Tour Quest Final (june 2016), Moscow Open (july 2016), WT Debrecen (september 2016), WT Beijing (September 2016), WT Utsunomiya (july 2017), WT Prague (august 2017), ING-DiBa Berlin 3×3 Challenger (september 2017), FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup Qualifier Romania (june 2018),  WT Saskatoon (july 2018)

2^nd Place – FIBA 3×3 World Cup (2014), 3×3 FIBA Europe Cup (2016)

3^rd Place – European Games Baku (2015)

Results in 2018

1^st Place – FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup Qualifier, DECATHLON B33 TOUR 2018 FINAL – 3×3 WTM Qualifier Oroszlany, 3×3 NoviSad, Bar Satellite, WT Saskatoon

3^rd Place – Wuxi Challenger, Huaian Challenger, Ulaanbaatar Challenger, DECATHLON B33 TOUR 2018 II. – 3×3 WTM Qualifier Pecs

4^th Place – Gigantes do 3×3

Tamas Ivosev

– 28 years, 2.01 m, Kecskemet (Hungary)

– World Rank: 253

– National Rank: 1

Best results:

1^st Place – MEGOLDÁS B33 GALA 2012 (december 2012), DECATHLON B33 TOUR FINAL (july 2016), NEMZETI VÁLOGATÓ 3X3 WTM DÖNTŐ (august 2016), DECATHLON B33 TOUR 2017 II. (june 2017), DECATHLON B33 TOUR 2018 I. – 3×3 WTM Qualifier (june 2018), DECATHLON B33 TOUR 2018 FINAL – 3×3 WTM Qualifier (july 2018).

2^nd Place – FELKÉSZÜLÉSI TORNA PÉCS (june 2016), BASKET TOUR SPLIT (june 2017), DECATHLON B33 TOUR 2017 III. (june 2017), DECATHLON B33 TOUR 2018 II. – 3×3 WTM Qualifier (june 2018), FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup Qualifier Andorra 2018 (june 2018), Ghetto Basket Ventspils Challenger (july 2018).

3^rd Place – BASKET TOUR ŠIBENIK (june 2017), FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup Qualifier 2017 (june 2017).

4^th Place – DECATHLON B33 TOUR II. (june 2016).

Results in 2018:

1^st Place – DECATHLON B33 TOUR 2018 I. – 3×3 WTM Qualifier (june 2018), DECATHLON B33 TOUR 2018 FINAL – 3×3 WTM Qualifier (july 2018).

2^nd Place – DECATHLON B33 TOUR 2018 II. – 3×3 WTM Qualifier (june 2018), FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup Qualifier Andorra 2018 (june 2018), Ghetto Basket Ventspils Challenger (july 2018).