The Basque Country autonomous basketball team is the
basketball
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team of the
Basque Country. The team is not affiliated to
FIBA
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, so only plays friendly games.
History
Basque Country played the
Torneo de las Naciones The Torneo de las Naciones (''Nations Tournament'') is a friendly basketball tournament held in Spain co-organized by the basketball federations of Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia. This three regional teams participate each year in a Final F ...
, a tournament co-organized with
Galicia and
Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy.
Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...
. It was played from 2008 to 2010 and basques won the 2008 and 2009 editions.
In summer 2011, Basque Country, coached by
Pablo Laso
Pablo Laso Biurrun (born October 13, 1967) is a Spanish professional basketball coach and former player. He was the head coach of Real Madrid for eleven seasons from 2011 to 2022, guiding them to two EuroLeague championships and six Liga ACB ...
, played three games at
Argentina
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. One against the 'B' team of, other with a team of players of
Córdoba and a third game with the
Argentina national basketball team
The Argentina men's national basketball team (Spanish: ''Selección de baloncesto de Argentina'') represents Argentina in men's international basketball officially nicknamed ''The Argentine Soul'' (Spanish: ''El Alma Argentina''), and it is co ...
. In this last game, where Argentina played with the team of the
FIBA Americas Championship
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Since FIBA organised the entire Wester ...
won Basque Country by a huge 92–28.
In 2012 the team, coached again by Laso, played two games against
Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤠(Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤠ðž ...
. Basque Country won the first game by 86–74 and lost the second one by 66–82.
Roster
This is the roster of the Basque Country team for the 2016 games against
Venezuela
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.
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; Head coach
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; Assistant coaches
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*Club – describes last club
before the tournament
*Age – describes age
on 17 July 2016
Games played
Women's team
Games played
See also
*
Torneo de las Naciones The Torneo de las Naciones (''Nations Tournament'') is a friendly basketball tournament held in Spain co-organized by the basketball federations of Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia. This three regional teams participate each year in a Final F ...
*
Basque Country national football team
The Basque Country representative football team (officially, in Basque, 'Euskal selekzioa') represents the Basque Country in football. It selects players from the Basque Country autonomous community, Navarre and the French Basque Country and is ...
References
Historic data and 2013 rosters at Basque Federation website
External links
Basque Basketball Federation website
{{Basque national teams
Basque
Basque may refer to:
* Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France
* Basque language, their language
Places
* Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France
* Basque Country (autonomous co ...
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...