EuroBasket 2025: Greece faces Finland today for the bronze medal

The last time of EuroBasket 2025 has arrived. Greece may person missed retired connected the expansive final, but that doesn’t mean the National Team has nary people — the squad tin instrumentality to the podium for the archetypal clip since 2009.

Vassilis Spanoulis’ squad volition look this year’s large surprise, Finland, with the bronze medal crippled successful Riga scheduled for 17:00. The crippled volition beryllium broadcast connected NovaSports Start and ERT 1.

For his part, the Greek manager stated up of the game:
“We are successful the medal portion aft 16 years. We indispensable not beryllium miserable, but proud. We person a immense situation up of america — the biggest crippled for maine successful the past 16 years. To bring the medal backmost to our country, to marque history.”

Panagiotis Kalaitzakis said:
“We person a precise large opportunity, a precise large motivation. We’re playing for a medal that our state hasn’t seen successful 16 years. At the commencement of the tournament, if idiosyncratic had told america we’d beryllium playing Finland successful the past crippled for a medal, astir each of america would person ‘taken it.’ This mightiness beryllium the astir important crippled of the tournament. They’re a bully team, they didn’t get present by chance. They tally the floor, they instrumentality much three-pointers than immoderate different team. They don’t person the large bodies to halt Giannis, but they’re a unsafe squad with galore players who tin each sprout and grip the ball. We’ll request to beryllium precise careful.”

Finland’s coach, Lassi Tuovi, noted:
“Of people the imagination is the expansive final, but EuroBasket is truthful tough. We’re talking astir legends, similar Sloukas who has been with the nationalist squad for years and present they person a accidental astatine a medal. It volition beryllium a peculiar crippled for america too, having our 5,000 fans unneurotic with the Greeks — the ambiance volition beryllium amazing. A peculiar crippled for them, and historically, for america arsenic well.”

Today’s docket (14/9):
Greece vs. Finland – 17:00
Turkey vs. Germany – 21:00