VIDEO: Macedonian in FIBA Top 10, Simic among basketball players who shone in November
The Macedonian senior basketball team with two defeats started the qualifications for the 2023 World Cup. In Skopje we lost to Spain with 65:94, and three days later in Kiev the selection of Ukraine was better.
At the duel in SC "Jane Sandanski" shone our basketball hope, 17-year-old Teodor Simic (210 cm.) Who was the top scorer in that match with 18 points (75% accuracy) for 16 minutes on the floor.
Such a great game against the current world champion placed him among the Top 10 young promising players or "Rising Stars" which stood out in the November European qualifiers according to the World Basketball Federation (FIBA).
Besides Simic (Macedonia) who is the youngest on this list, Filip Petrushev (Serbia), Aleksandar Balcerovski (Poland), Mikael Jantunen (Finland), Roko Prkacin (Croatia), Yam Madar (Israel), Justus Holac ( Germany), Kay van der Wurst De Vries (Netherlands), Kenan Kemanjas (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Emil Stoilov (Bulgaria).
We picked out 🔟 young guns who impressed us the most during this #FIBAWC European Qualifiers window! 😎
Who would be your number 1️⃣? 🤔 #WinForAll
- FIBA Basketball World Cup (@FIBAWC) December 3, 2021
Simic with Barça in Patras will chase a place for the Euroleague Final Four -
Simic, who also defends the colors of Barcelona, will start the new Euroleague adventure in Patras, where one of the four qualifying tournaments in junior competition will be played next season. A total of 20 clubs and basketball academies from 28 different countries will play in the 13th edition in a row, which will seek a place in the final tournament in Germany.
The first tournament will be played in Germany, but in Munich from January 21 to 23. The next, one would say, traditionally, will be in Belgrade (February 25-27).
The third, featuring Simic and Barca, will be played in Patras, Greece, from March 25th to March 27th, and the last in Varese (April 1st to 3rd).
The novelty is that in all four tournaments there will be a specially created team "Next generation Team" composed of players who did not enter one of those eight teams present at the tournaments. The first-placed teams from these tournaments will provide a ticket for a trip to Berlin, where on May 29 we will find out the new junior champion in the Euroleague.
