Basketball: FIBA Europe Men European Championships of the Small Countries

During the last edition of this tournament held in Malta two years ago, the National team won the bronze medal. The preparations for this tournament started months ago however the training got harder in the last weeks under the guidance of National coach Paolo Di Fonzo together with Assistant Coaches Joe Galea and Peter Farrugia and physical trainer Salvatore De Martino.

In this championship Malta will be playing in Group B together with Wales, Scotland home team San Marino. Moldova, Andorra and Gibraltar will be competing in Group A. Malta will start with the first game on Monday 2nd July against Scotland at 16:30. The rest of the games will be played as follows:

3rd July - Wales vs Malta at 17:15

4th July - San Marino vs Malta at 19:30

There will be no games on the 5th July and the semi finals and finals will be played on the 6th and 7th July. The following players have been called by National Coach Paolo Di Fonzo:

Omar Said, Roderick Vella, Shawn Pace, Josh Jackson, Chris Meier, Kristin Baldacchino, Steve Schembri, Nigel Sultana, Samuel Deguara, Addison Bonnici and David Bugeja.

Games can be followed in real time on www.fibaeurope.com