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The 2006 FIBA World Championship final was a basketball game between the men's national teams of Greece and the Spain that took place on September 3, 2006, at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. [1] It was the first finals appearance for Spain, whose best achievement in the World Cup was the fourth place in 1982. Greece also made its ...
Spain won the tournament by beating Greece 70–47 in the championship final. Spain won all nine games they played. Spain's gold medal in this tournament was the first medal Spain had ever won in a FIBA World Championship. Pau Gasol also became the first Spaniard to win the MVP award. It was the first time a country has won all nine of its ...
Results of Spain men's national basketball team since 1935, as recognized by the Spanish Basketball Federation: [1] Olympic Games, World Cups, EuroBaskets and the respective qualifying tournaments, as well as seven editions of the Mediterranean Games when the A-team was involved.
The 97-77 win against Japan at the Saitama Super Arena north of Tokyo lifted Argentina to 1-2 and advanced them to the quarter-final. Olympics-Basketball-Argentina top Japan for last quarter-final ...
The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the 18th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men's national basketball teams, held from 31 August to 15 September 2019. . The tournament was hosted in China and was rescheduled from 2018 to 2019, becoming the first since 1967 that did not occur in the same year as the FIFA World Cup (which was held the previous ye
However, the success rate of hosts winning the tournament is rather low (14%, 3 of 18), as compared to the FIFA World Cup's success rate of 22% (6 of 21); furthermore, no host has won the championship since Yugoslavia won in 1970, and only one host since then has won any type of medal (Turkey with a silver medal in 2010).
Spain and Japan will both be looking to qualify for the Round of 16 when they square off. Here's how to watch the match. Skip to main content. News. Need help? Call us! 800-290-4726 ...
Their win against Poland won them the group. [9] In the quarter-finals at Dongguan, Argentina defeated 2014 World Cup runners-up and 2016 Olympic silver medalists Serbia by 10 points to qualify to the semi-finals. [10] France, which had defeated the United States in their own quarter-final match-up, faced the South Americans in the semi-final ...