{"id":13082,"date":"2019-02-26T17:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportsrabbi.agpwebdesign.com\/?p=13082"},"modified":"2019-02-26T17:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:42:49","slug":"we-are-champions-israel-gears-up-for-u20-european-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/we-are-champions-israel-gears-up-for-u20-european-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"“We are Champions” – Israel gears up for U20 European Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Israel Basketball Association<\/strong> officially launched the FIBA Under-20 European Championship<\/strong> that will be held in Tel Aviv this summer at a festive press conference at the Drive-In Arena. The tournament will take place between July 13-21, 2019 as 16 national teams including France, Greece and Spain will take part in the event. <\/p>\n

Israel will be defending the title<\/strong> that they won under Head Coach Ariel Beit Halachmi<\/strong> last year in Germany on home soil with a number of returning players. Deni Avdija<\/strong> will be one of the returnees who will garner much interest from the fans as well as the NBA scouts who will descend onto North Tel Aviv.
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\nAvdija<\/strong> who just last week made his Senior National Team debut spoke about the upcoming competition, \u201cIt\u2019s always great to be with the National Team. But I\u2019m not looking at my age but rather at how I can be part of the team and also help lead my teammates while giving my best. It\u2019s fantastic that the championship is in Israel and we will have home crowd support which will definitely help us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Basketball Without Borders MVP continued, \u201cWe are also aware that it\u2019s harder to hold on to the Cup than it is to win it. We will be looked at as favorites and we will do the best that we can. Personally, I can\u2019t compare the tournaments that I have played in. I\u2019ll bring my experience from last year, but it\u2019s only important in terms of pressure. Each one fo us has to come into the tournament as best as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yam Madar<\/strong> an up and coming player for Hapoel Tel Aviv will also feature for Israel, \u201cIt\u2019s a big honor to play for National team. We will have to prepare well and be ready for the competition.
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\nBeit Halachmi<\/strong> commented on the honor of coming back to coach the team once again, \u201cIt\u2019s great to have brought the trophy home by winning the tournament last year. It\u2019s an honor to coach the National team and to be able to do so in our home country is super exciting.\u201d <\/p>\n

He also was clear to state that the team is just that, a team; no one will be above the team, \u201cI don\u2019t know who will be on the squad yet, we will have a good team that will play similar to how they did last year. The National team as a whole is more important than one single individual. We will have a very good team and it\u2019s a team, the individual talent isn\u2019t what is important to me but the team itself. The National team represents the whole country and to the whole team together, not this player or the other.\u201d
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\nOne of the most important figures in the development of Israeli basketball is Association President Amiram Halevy<\/strong>, \u201cWe have been focusing on the youth movement in Israeli basketball and last year we went from 2nd place to 1st place and won this title. We\u2019re happy with how we are continuing to develop and I expect that there will be a huge celebration here over the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The person charged with making sure the competition goes off without a hitch is Daniel Benaim<\/strong> of Comtec who has worked on many sporting events in Israel including last year\u2019s Giro D\u2019Italia, the Judo championships, the 2017 Eurobasket tournament and more, \u201cWe are champions and that\u2019s really amazing. We want to see the arena filled with fans wearing Blue & White and we want to have a quality tourney. Every time a championship comes here to Israel it can impact the way the country is perceived in the world. It\u2019s a great advantage to have a competition here and we will have a fun and exciting time. We are champions and that says a tremendous amount.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Israel Basketball Association officially launched the FIBA Under-20 European Championship that will be held in Tel Aviv this summer at a festive press conference at the Drive-In Arena. The tournament will take place between July 13-21, 2019 as 16 national teams including France, Greece and Spain will take part in the event. 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