Sports, gemasulawesi – The FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 will be held with three host countries, namely the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan.
Which is the FIBA Basketball World Cup, which will be held in about two weeks from September 25-10, 2023 and will be hosted for the first time by these three countries.
Spain have just made history by overtaking the United States in the FIBA rankings. Will be looking to defend the world title, having managed to win it in 2019.
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Meanwhile, after finishing 7th in the previous World Cup, Team USA will be looking for their sixth trophy to edge ahead of Yugoslavia.
The former United States team, led by Kevin Durant, managed a first-place finish in basketball’s last major event at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
In addition to determining who will become the basketball world champion, the results of this championship for the top 7 teams will automatically qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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Similar to the previous edition 2019, the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 will also be played in three phases, namely the group stage, the second round and then the final round.
During the group stage, a total of 32 teams were divided into groups A to H, where each group contained 4 teams.
Where each team in a group will compete once. Then only the top 2 teams will qualify for the next phase.
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Meanwhile, the bottom two teams will also play two seeding matches to determine seedings 17-32.
In the second round, there will be four groups (I – L) consisting of the four teams that qualified in the first round, playing each other again.
As before, they continued to progress to the next round, namely the final, and only 2 teams were able to prove themselves as the top two.
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The losing team of the quarter-finals will then play a classification match to determine 5th to 8th place.
After April 29, 2023, to be precise in Manila, Philippines, the draw for the FIBA World Cup took place. It has therefore been confirmed which team will face each other in the group stage.
A total of 32 teams qualified for the Basketball World Cup consisted of 12 European participants, 7 American teams, 8 Asian teams (including Australia and New Zealand who participated in the Asian qualifiers) and 5 African teams .
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Europe: Finland, Georgia, Italy, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, France, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Greece,
Americas: United States, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela
Asia: Australia, China, Philippines, Japan, Iran, Lebanon, New Zealand, Jordan
Africa: Angola, Egypt, Ivory Coast, South Sudan, Cape Verde
The USA qualification is arguably the biggest disappointment of the recent FIBA window.
Where the star-studded Argentinian side lost to the Dominican Republic 75-79 and were knocked out of the World Cup.
Whereas previously, the Argentina national team won a silver medal at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019. It will be his first absence from the event since 1982.
Group C will probably be one of the groups that presents quite an interesting battle.
Where the star-studded American team will face the Greek team, which has mainstay Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Spain, which is trying to defend its title, is placed in Group G, along with Iran, Ivory Coast and Brazil.
If Victor Wembanyama comes to the World Cup, he and France will face Canada, Latvia and Lebanon.
Here is the division of the group and the location of the matches of the preliminary phase:
Group A (Manila, Philippines): Angola, Philippines, Italy, Dominican Republic
Group B (Manila, Philippines): China, Puerto Rico, Serbia, South Sudan
Group C (Manila, Philippines): United States, New Zealand, Jordan, Greece
Group D (Manila, Philippines): Lithuania, Egypt, Mexico, Montenegro
Group E (Okinawa, Japan): Australia, Finland, Germany, Japan
Group F (Okinawa, Japan): Georgia, Slovenia, Cape Verde, Venezuela
Group G (Jakarta, Indonesia): Brazil, Iran, Ivory Coast, Spain
Group H (Jakarta, Indonesia): Canada, Latvia, Lebanon, France.
The group stage will take place from August 25 to August 30. The second round is scheduled for August 31 to September 3.
For the quarter-finals on September 5 and 6, the semi-finals on September 8 and the final on September 10. (*/Anise)
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