The Cats will play against Portugal on November 12 and against Ukraine on November 12. Both games will be played in Lisbon due to the pandemic. The final selection of 14 will be known next week, when the federation gets the COVID-19 protocol. Julie Allemand, Harriet Bende Nawezhi, Marjorie Carpréaux, Nastja Claessens, Antonia Delaere, Manon…
The Belgian Lions are playing in November against Lithuania and Czech Republic in Vilnius. Dario Gjergja revealed his preliminary squad with 2 new players: Andy Van Vliet and Michael Gilmore. If the selection of Andy Van Vliet is logic, the selection of Michael Gilmore (25 years old, 2m08) is a surprise. The nephew of basketball…
NBA stars Jonas Valanciunas and Domantas Sabonis are in Lithuania’s preliminary squad for the next Eurobasket window where Lithuania will play against Belgium and Danemark. The Lithuanian federation still needs to talk with the Grizzlies and the Pacers about insurances fot the 2 players. Augustas Marčiulionis, the son of the legendary Sarunas Marčiulionis is in…
Because of the pandemic, the management of Basketball Belgium decided to cancel the Belgian Lions summer camp who was supposed to take place from July 22 to July 29 in Louvain-La-Neuve. “Staff members and players are coming back from risk areas. We want to protect everyone’s health“, says Basketball Belgium. In order to prepare the…
Belgium Basketball announced that the Belgians Lions and the Belgian Cats will participate in a summer camp in July. The Lions will train in Louvain-La-Neuve, while the Cats will train in different locations (Kortrijk, Wilrijk, Louvain-La-Neuve). For the Cats, this camp will start June 29 with some physical tests. The real camp will start officially…
The opening window of the EuroBasket 2021 Qualifiers has given us a surprising look into the strength of our Belgian Lions. Despite practically missing their starting line-up with Sam Van Rossom (injury/Euroleague), Ismael Bako (Euroleague), Jean Salumu (injury), Manu Lecomte (injury) and Hans Vanwijn (injury) – as well as youngster Vrenz Bleijenbergh (injury) – for…
The Belgian Lions remain perfect in this opening window of the EuroBasket 2021 Qualifiers as they defeated Denmark with the 72-88 final score. Our Lions were again very dominant this game throughout the opening three quarters, thanks to their lights-out shooting from behind the arc with Tabu in particular putting on a show with his…
After the amazing successes of our Belgian Cats it was now up to our Belgian Lions to put Belgian Basketball on the map. And in this first game of the FIBA EuroBasket 2021 Qualifiers they did just that by defeating number 8 in the world Lithuania with the convincing 86-65 final score. Although we can’t…
After defeating Sweden with the 53-61 final score our Belgian Cats have qualified for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo and thus make history. It’s becoming a habit for this golden generation of Belgian Cats. After an exciting Qualifying Tournament in front of their home-crowd in Ostend, the Cats have managed to qualify for the Olympics for…
Simply amazing! No other words can describe this battle between Japan and our Belgian Cats. In a game that offered pretty much everything a basketball game has to offer our Belgian Cats showed again why they truly belong at the highest stage as they got the 92-84 win. If you didn’t thoroughly enjoy this game then…
