Ivanović's 12 players ready for Eurobasket

The coach of the BiH basketball team, Duško Ivanović, announced at today's press conference which 12 players will represent BiH at the upcoming Eurobasket, writes the BiH news agency Patria.

The list includes: Nemanja Gordić, Alex Renfroe, Edin Bavčić, Elmedin Kikanović, Andrija Stipanović, Miroslav Todić, Adin Vrabac, Nedim Buza, Milan Milošević, Marko Šutalo, Dalibor Peršić, Muhamed Pašalić.

BiH is in Group A with Russia, Israel, France, Poland, and Finland, and this group will compete in France. The European Championship will be held from September 5 to 20, and BiH will play its first-phase matches from September 5 to 10.

Coach Ivanović said that the team is ready for the European Championship and that they have played 12 preparatory matches in three tournaments.

- At the end of the preparations, I am very satisfied with how we conducted them. The players came with great ambitions. Although we lost some preparatory matches by a large margin, we learned something from them. After each of these 12 matches, we got a little better. Our greatest quality is teamwork and fighting spirit. Now the main part for which we have been preparing begins, and we are only thinking about the first match against Poland - said Ivanović.

The captain of the national team, Elmedin Kikanović, believes that the players had quality preparations and are ready for the European Championship.

The General Secretary of the Basketball Federation of BiH, Harun Mahmutović, expressed great gratitude to the players and the professional staff for representing BiH at the Eurobasket.

- The guys have been together for 50 days, they have trained hard, they have left their families, set aside a part of their lives to fight for the BiH national team and represent this country. They have truly worked hard and diligently all this time, and on this occasion, on behalf of the Basketball Federation of BiH and all well-intentioned fans, I thank them. We are all proud of them - said Mahmutović.

The BiH basketball players will play their first match at the Eurobasket on September 5 against Poland, on September 6 they will play against the host France, then on September 7 against Israel, on September 9 against Finland, and on September 10 against Russia.