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Vasilis Spanoulis pre-selection for the SEF Pre-Olympic Championship

Vasilis Spanoulis pre-selection for the SEF Pre-Olympic Championship

The EEC has announced the players who will be pre-selected for the national team ahead of the SEF Pre-Olympic Championship (2-7/7), with Giannis Antetokounmpo’s name appearing in Vassilis Spanoulis’ invitation.

Giannis Antetokounmpo’s name dominates the pre-selection of the 18 players who will take part in the preparation of the men’s national team ahead of the Pre-Olympic tournament, which will be held at the SEF (July 2-7).

the Vassilis Spanoulis had said that the Pax star would strengthen the teamwith the Sport24 To reveal it The ‘Greek Maniac’ will begin training at SEF on June 3. Now, the official confirmation of his presence in the national team’s bid to qualify for the Olympic Games has come through the announcement of pre-selection by the European Economic Commission.

Meanwhile, Kostas Sloukas and Nick Calathes – who told SPORT24 that he will be in the squad – return to the national team after a year’s absence.

Left, as expected, she was Thanassis Antetokounmpo is injured And Nikos Rojavopoulos, who asked not to be contacted.

Details of the players who will participate in preparing the men’s national team:
s: Thomas Walkup, Nick Calathes, Michalis Lountzis, Dimitris Moraitis
Saint-Germain: Kostas Sloukas, Giannoulis Larentzakis, Vassilis Toliopoulos, Nikolis Avdalas
sixth: Kostas Papanikolaou, Ioannis Papapetrou, Vassilis Charalambopoulos, Panagiotis Kalitsakis
National Front: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Dinos Mitoglou, Giannis Kosloglou, Nikos Hojaz.
C: George Papagiannis, Kostas Antetokounmpo

The first preparation show is scheduled to take place on Monday, 6/17, although the athletes who have completed their commitments with their national teams will train starting tomorrow (6/10) under the supervision of members of the national team’s coaching staff.

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The Greek national team will play three friendly matches as part of its preparations. The first match is scheduled to be held against Poland (6/21), while it will then face Montenegro (6/25) and the Bahamas (6/27) in the Acropolis Championship.

It is noteworthy that Greece will organize one of the four preparatory tournaments for the Olympics with the participation of Croatia, New Zealand, Egypt and the Dominican Republic. Slovenia is in the first group, along with New Zealand and Croatia, while Greece is in the second group, along with the Dominican Republic and Egypt.

SEF Pre-Olympic Championship Program
July 2
Egypt – Dominican Republic (17:30)
Slovenia – Croatia (21:00)
July 3
Croatia – New Zealand (17:30)
Dominican Republic – Greece (21:00)
4th of July
New Zealand vs Slovenia (17:30)
Greece – Egypt (21:00)
July 6
Semi-final between second place in Group B and first place in Group A
Semi-final between the first from Group B and the second from Group A.
July 7
Final (21:00)