European Basketball Championship begins in Hungary in 50 days

The Hungarian national team will play team matches in full house on the Women’s European Basketball Championships beginning on June 11, which will be organized by Hungary and Romania.

Ivan Bodrogvary, leader of the organizing committee of the European Championship said at his press conference on Thursday: tickets are bough well, the Swedes have already ordered 500, the Slovaks hundreds of them, so the 2500-people Sopron hall will be full.

Tamas Gall, one of the assistant coaches of the Hungarian national team said the team would begin the joint preparations for the EC in Miskolc on May 4, Stefan Svitek national coach would join this time. As has been said, the national team is expected to reach the semi-final, the top 12. To do this, the team must be in the top three of the group.

According to the trainer, the Hungarian team wanted to fight with the Lithuanians and the Swedes for the second place and if they would advance, more matches win at the semi-final in Gyor. Stefan Svitek appointed 17 people, whose member is Zsofia Fegyverneky who has a six-week-old baby and started to train after birth. Tamas Gall added the team was very unified and everyone tried to subordinate everything for the coming-out well. Even naturalized Americans transferred their studies to be there in the training camps.

As for preparation, Stefan Svitek’s team, after the joint exercises in Miskolc and Sopron, will play two matches with Italy on May 15 and 16, than they will participate in a four-tournament between May 29-31 in Podgorica, where they will play with, besides the host Montenegrins, Bosnia and Croatia. And then, the team will have a match in Istanbul, Turkey on June 5 and 6.