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)…

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Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger 2018: Lausanne (SUI)

The best team from Switzerland this season so far. Composed of the first four players in the Swiss national ranking, team Lausanne obtained the 3rd place at FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup Andorra Qualifier at the beginning on June. Star player Westher Molteni – 31 years, 1.98 m, Lugano (Switzerland) – FIBA Rank: 50 – National Rank: 3 An active player in the italian events, country where he obtained many medals, including the tast two final tournaments of the 3×3 competition. He is a very important member of the team wich…

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Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger 2018: Team Belgrade (SRB)

The team has an impressive 2018 season. Belgrade has won two tournaments in one single week at the begining of june: one in Serbia and one in Slovakia.. Belgrade played other two finals and six semifinals this season, having three of the top 50 players in FIBA World Ranking.   Star Player Ivan Popovic – 26 years, 1.93 m, Ub (Serbia) – World Rank: 30 – National Rank: 13 The highest ranked player in the national and world Ranking is Ivan Popovic. He played together with Dragan Bjelica and Dušan…

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With man down since the group stage, Riga Ghetto Basket scores a 3-men win at Bucharest Challenger and secures maiden World Tour Masters appearance

“We won the Bucharest Challenger and qualified for the Masters in Luasanne. We’re all in pain, but that’s what happened here. It’s a huge joy, you’ve seen the celebration. We also had chance on our side, it was fantastic” an ecstatic Agnis Cavars revealed, just seconds after the icon University Square in Bucharest witnessed four Latvians unleash. They screamed their hearts out, jumped like crazy and then collapsed on court, as if they were about to draw their pairs of wings, just like children do in the snow. Riga Ghetto…

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Big Bas’ squad beats the drum at Bucharest Challenger

The Netherlands will be represented for the first time at the 2016 edition of the Bucharest Challenger, just like Greece. Holland has barely finished celebrating the fantastic performance acquired by its own players at the mid- June 3×3 Basketball World Championship in France. Having never achieved significant results at any 5×5 basketball major tournaments, but with a keen desire to perform well in team-sports outside the football field, the Netherlands has crafted a national strategy. The Federation started to invest heavily in 2007 in several projects dedicated to children and…

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Romania’s Big 3. Bucharest Legends take on the world’s 3×3 giants

Those are players who have carried Romanian basketball on their shoulders for the last two decades, at the highest level, whether they were playing for the national team or at club level. Virgil Stănescu is the most iconic Romanian basketball player since 1989, having put together good seasons in the most powerful European championships and served as captain for the national team for almost two decades. Paul Helcioiu, winner of the FIBA Eurochallenge Cup back in 2005 with Asesoft Ploiești, was also a key-player for Romania’s national team. Mihai Paul…

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Sent by the Gods of Athens: Don Poly makes its Challenger debut in Bucharest

Greece sends a team to Bucharest Challenger for the first time. From the City of Gods right to “Kilometer Zero” of the Romanian Capital, here come three Greeks and one Serbian guy! Petros Melissaratos, Nikos Tsiokos and Thanasis Chanias-Pantazis, ranked 5th, 6th and 7th among Greek 3×3 players, competed all four tournaments in 2017 alongside Serbia’s Alexander Stevovic, who’s got a 5×5 pro basketball contract in Greece. Don Poly arrives in Bucharest after a first World Tour appearance in Prague (12th place) and three podium finishes in as many tournaments…

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Bulgaria’s Lilov set to prove he’s Fit for 3×3 at Bucharest Challenger, after missing out on Eurobasket ticket

The winners of the 3X3 BULGARIA TOUR 2017 finale come to Bucharest with only one substitution, led by Ivan Lilov. With no more than three appearances in 3×3 competitions this year, the ballers from Sofia are hoping to speculate any wrong move from their rivals, as outsiders. Yet, Sofia Fit Spo will have a difficult task. Key Player:  Ivan Lilov A 5×5 national team player for Bulgaria, Lilov was one step away from the Eurobasket 2017 qualification, in group E, where the Balkan team faced Slovenia, Ukraine and Kosovo. Eventually,…

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Winnipeg: the win-prone Canadians have experience on their side at the Bucharest Challenger

Winnipeg Acceleration Performance arrives at the Bucharest Challenger as a finalist of the national tour 3×3 Canada Quest and after having secured a World Tour showing in Saskatoon (12th place, in a contest won by Ljubljana). However, the team is slightly different from Saskatoon, with Darcy Coss (34) and Graham Bodnar (36) joining Wyatt Anders and O’Neal Gordon instead of Jelane Pryce and Matthew Koenig (an entertaining player to watch, enrolled in a special training program to improve detention and dunking skills). Interestingly enough, Bodnar and Coss were Wyatt Anders’s…

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The boys from Piter set to bring their opponents bitter days at Bucharest Challenger

At first glance, BM-18 appers to be a team put together in a hurry. Igor Medyntcev and Shalva Shatashvili are the two players constantly enrolled in 2017 tournaments as part of the team, but they as well have migrated to other quartets. Nikolai Shangychev is, without doubt, the most important transfer, while Alex Abrikosov will play for the first time under this name. It is from this difficult to manage situation that Abrikosov, who in the past has brought one of Russia’s two 3rd place finishes at Bucharest Challenger, will…

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