The selection arrived at Limasol on Sunday nightwhere on Thursday the Eurobasket Group C will take action. The team will have a first contact with the Kyprianou Arena Spyrosan enclosure for some 6,000 fans who, in one of the biggest sporting events organized by Cyprus in its history, has exhausted all its tickets. The majority of Greek fans, whose selection will also play on the nearby island.
Spain, which will start the tournament by measuring Georgia, will start in Limasol The very complicated defense of the continental title already conquered in a amazing way in 2022. And also a streak that seems like another was and that has turned the selection into The greatest power of European basketball in the last 25 years.
The selection celebrates the victory in the Eurobasket of 2015.
In the Modern Age of the Eurobasket, no selection has obtained the results of Spain. The last time he was not in the semifinals was in 1997. Willy Hernangómez, the most veteran of the current team, was then only three years old. From that, 11 times being among the four best in the championship and 10 medals, four of them gold: 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2022. In these golden years of Spanish basketball, The only time he did not go to a continental podium was in the 2005 edition in Belgradewhen he lost to France in the fight for bronze.
The 'dictatorship' of the Soviet Union
Achievements of another era. Specifically, when the basketball of the continent was completely dominated by the Soviet Union. In the story, the current semifinal streak of the Spanish team only exceeds the red giant, which was 20 consecutive editions sneaking among the top four of the Eurobasket: between 1951 and 1989.
The players of the Spanish team listen to the anthem before a 2009 Eurobasket match.
They could be more, but in the 1991 edition he did not participate in the process of dismemberment that the country lived. During his 'dictatorship', the Soviet team came to conquer 13 golds, eight of them in a row, and Between 1955 and 1969 he lived an unbeatability period that led him to win 59 consecutive games.
only Antigua Yugoslavia, Serbia, France, Lituania.
Not even other great extinguished power like Yugoslaviawhich also had years of enormous domain in Europe, reached the semifinals in a row that Spain accumulates. The Balcanic Tops stayed in seven between the 1969 and 1983 editions. Nor like Serbia and Montenegro Not even the first name has been able to maintain regularity over time. Nor other selections such as Lithuania, France…, which are usually pointers.
The 1999 Eurobasket silveralso with a large component of surprise, the emergence of The gold juniors in 2001the appearance of Rudy fernández, Marc Gasol Y Sergio Rodríguezthe addition after Ricky Rubio, Sergio Llull, Serge Ibaka, Los Hernangómez… thus, until reaching our days, where, with less talent, a competitive spirit that has kept a streak of another era alive.
