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Romania, in the last 16 at WC, beat USA

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The Romanian 3×3 basketball national team finished in the last sixteen at the first ever 3×3 World Championship, held in Athens between 23-26 August 2012, beating USA Basketball on their way to the knock-out round. The success against USA is an historic one for the Romanian Basketball and the game was just amazing, with Angel Santana nailing a three pointer with 3 seconds to go, for a 15-14 victory. Santana&Co played after just two hours another crucial game, against Russia, and they failed to advance to the quarter finals, even…

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Bigica: Sport Arena Streetball is about the atmosphere

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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

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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

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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

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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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