The European champion wants to show her maturity

The European champion wants to show her maturity

The 'selection of the windows' returns to action after the Eurobasket in search of a victory against Italy that will bring them closer to the World Cup

MADRID, 10 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish men's basketball team will return to action this Friday after the great conquest of the Eurobasket last September with an always complicated visit to Italy (9:00 p.m./Teledeporte) against which they want to take another step towards their presence in the 2023 World Cup.

Spain gets together again and does so with its 'FIBA windows' version, the most common except in major international events, but which has already demonstrated its ability to make the theoretically complicated transition lead to a new success for national basketball.

No one was counting on Sergio Scariolo's team for the continental title, but the Italian coach's slate and the commitment of his players led him to a new medal. The one from Brescia, in a match always special for him to face his country, has had for this occasion five players who have already lived that experience to look for a victory that will put them very close to being able to defend the 2019 world gold. if not, there will be another option on Monday in Huelva against the Netherlands.

Jaime Fernández, Darío Brizuela, Alberto Díaz, Joel Parra and Sebas Sáiz are the survivors of the last European Championship and will be the leaders of a team that is completed with players who already know very well the premises that the coach asks for, such as Miquel Salvó, Rubén Guerrero , Jonathan Barreiro, Santi Yusta, Yankuba Sima and Ferrán Bassas, who complete the list, while Francis Alonso, Edgar Vicedo and newcomers Pep Busquets and Eric Vila will be discarded.

With these wicks, Spain will always look for a victory of great value against an Italy with which it is tied in this second group with a balance of 5-1 and with which it shares favoritism. Gianmarco Pozzecco's team did not shine so much in the Eurobasket, despite the fact that it was the executioner in the second round of the powerful Serbia and was close to knocking down France in the quarterfinals, one more example of its always competitive character, which will grow in the heat of its public .

The Italian coach will not be able to have his best Euroleague players under his command either, although he has been able to get Armani Milano and Virtus, Scariolo's team that has allowed him to focus on this 'window' and not lead the Bolognese team, They have released some for this match such as Niccolò Mannion, Stefano Tonut, Paul Biligha, Giampaolo Ricci or Alessandro Pajola.

All of them were also at the Eurobasket along with other players such as Marco Spissu, who had great performances against the Serbs and the French, and who will be one of the players to watch for the defense of a Spanish team that won the last duel between the two , in the last World Cup by 67-60.

ITALY: Spissu, Mannion, Biligha, Tonut, Moretti, Tessitori, Ricci, Spagnolo, Moraschini, Baldasso, Caruso, Vitali, Rassoul Diouf, Severini, Akele, Woldetensae, Pajola and Petrucelli.

SPAIN: Jaime Fernández, Brizuela, Díaz, Parra, Sáiz, Salvó, Guerrero, Barreiro, Yusta, Sima and Bassas.

--PAVEL: Vitrifigo Sand.

--TIME: 9:00 p.m./Telesport.