Bulgaria national basketball team

The Bulgarian national basketball team of Men ( Bulgarian Национален отбор по баскетбол на България ) represents Bulgaria in international basketball internationals.

  • 3.1 Summer Olympics
  • 3.2 World Championships
  • 3.3 European Championship finals

History

Bulgaria made between the early 1950s until the mid- 1960s, one of the strongest European teams and was able to place 1951-1967 in nine European Championship finals until 1953 always below the top five teams. 1957 you won a silver and a bronze medal in 1961. The best position at the global finals was a fifth-place finish at the Olympic Games in 1956. During one was then represented up to and including 1977 still among the best eight teams in Europe at the continental finals, you missed in the 1980s to qualify for three of five finals, although one of the first players in the U.S. professional league NBA was adjusted with Georgi Glushkov, who had grown up in a Warsaw Pact country. Between 1993 and 2005 it was then consecutively not represented at six European Championship finals in the field of participants. Although known as the coach Pini Gershon Israeli tried as national coach of the selection, you never came in three European finals appearances since 2005 on the first round also. In qualifying for the European Championship finals in 2013 you had the German national team and the Swedish selection to defer and was not represented at the finals.

A number of U.S. basketball player was naturalized in Bulgaria, since there are more stringent restrictions on non-European foreigners in southern European leagues. Among them are born in Germany Earl Jerrod Rowland and Eric Williams, but never played in Bulgaria itself. Rowland, however, played like the naturalized Jared Homan in the German Basketball Bundesliga and was in contrast to Homan active for the national team even at two European Cups in 2009 and 2011. The quasi opposite way were the two sons of the national player Ilija Ewtimow that was active at the end of his playing career in France. Vasil Ewtimow was initially active at a younger age for the French national team at the European Championship finals in 2001 before he took part later for the Bulgarian national team at the European Championship finals in 2009. Among the best known current internationals also includes another pair of brothers, the long time in Italy and Dejan twins Kaloyan Ivanov active.

Current squad

Known player

Other well-known players that have played in the past in the national team are:

  • Georgi Panov (* 1933)
  • Ljubomir Panov (* 1933)
  • Atanas Atanassov (* 1935)
  • Petko Lazarov (* 1935)
  • Ilija Mirtschew (* 1935)
  • Viktor Radev ( b. 1936 )
  • Ilija Ewtimow ( b. 1956 )
  • Georgi Glushkov ( b. 1960 )
  • Vasil Ewtimow ( b. 1977 )
  • Todor Stoykov ( b. 1977 )
  • Dimitar Angelov ( b. 1979 )
  • Filip Widenov (* 1980)
  • Boyko Mladenov (* 1981)
  • Ilian Ewtimow ( b. 1983 )
  • Christo Nikolov (* 1985)
  • Christo Sachariew (* 1990)

Naturalized player

  • Priest Lauderdale (born 1973 )
  • Roderick Blakney ( b. 1976 )
  • Willie Deane ( b. 1980 )
  • Andre Owens ( born 1980 )
  • Earl Calloway ( b. 1983 )
  • Jared Homan ( b. 1983 )
  • Earl Jerrod Rowland ( b. 1983 )
  • Ibrahim Jaaber (* 1984)
  • Eric Williams ( born 1984 )
  • Cedric Simmons ( born 1986 )

Performance in international tournaments

Olympic Summer Games

World Championships

European Championship finals

  • 2011 - 13th place
  • 2013 - does not qualify
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