It is an immense privilege for Cyprus to be the co-organizer of EuroBasket 2025 next September with Latvia, Finland and Poland. The trophy – with the mascot – arrived on the island for the match against France and will stay there for ten days with a series of stages to expose it to the population. At a press conference, the federation invited Michail Kakiouzis who raised it in 2005 during Greece's victory in Belgrade, emphasizing the strong ties that unite the Cypriot people with the brother country .
Since 1974, the northern third of the island has been under Turkish control but the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is not recognized by the UN, which has sent troops to form a green line, known as the Attila line, to separate the TRNC. from the southern part where 770,000 Greek Cypriots live. These are the ones who are concerned by the European Championship.
As in Greece, behind the dominant football, basketball is popular in Cyprus even if, limited in human resources, the country only appears in the 82e place in the FIBA rankings. As the organizing country, Cyprus is automatically qualified for EuroBasket and this is a great first. The first two results in the qualifiers against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia are strong indicators to be sure that the Cypriots will not do wonders there. They took 33 points in the figure in the first match (66-99) and 29 points in the second (92-63).
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