The qualifiers for the upcoming world forum are coming to an end. In November, the matches of the fifth qualifying window were played all over the planet, and this is the penultimate game in the overall score.

Sport.ua detailed the ups and downs of the fight and the current standings of the Ukrainian team. However, there were also many interesting things in other European groups and other continents. In this material, we will try to pay attention to the main events of the November election phase.

Europe

Besides our group, a very tense fight continues in the European qualifiers in the Six I. In it, initially five strong teams applied for three tickets, respectively, one of which will be superfluous. But it certainly will not be the national team of Latvia. The Balts defeated the Greek national team away – 80:60 in an important match for them, and then took the predicted home win in the match against England – 79:63. The Latvians chose with great confidence in the group of real European peaks and for the first time in their history won a ticket to the world championship.

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He was also selected for the Asian and Greek team. After the defeat from Latvia, the Hellenes were pressed against the wall, but without a group of leading players, they were able to rehabilitate themselves in front of their fans and beat the Belgian team away 72:70. Now, with any tournament return, the Greeks will not fall below the third place and will go to the 2023 World Cup. And there everything will be waiting for the new arrival of Giannis Antetokounmpo.

However, the best Serbian team has not yet competed with Turkey and Belgium for the world championship ticket, although the chances of the Balkans are much more preferable than their rivals.

Group J has already settled all of its questions. After the games in November, the teams of Germany and Slovenia joined the Finns, who passed the first qualifying rounds in the summer months among the European teams.

Balkans has managed to solve the big star shortage problem thanks to 18-year-old young talent Urban Klavzar (who is predicted to have a very good future), a mature game beyond his years and consistently high-quality performances. naturalized great man Jordan Morgan. He was especially successful in the duel he won against the German national team (22 points + 13 rebounds).

In contrast, for the Germans, a victory over the unmotivated Finns was enough for overall success. Bundesteam, without many stars and players in the main rotation, showed good team play, with four basketball players scoring 15 or more points at the same time.

Actually, there were no surprises in this six. Even before the selection begins, teams that were given the role of favorite will go to Asia.

The main event in group K was not even reaching the final of the world championships of France and Lithuania, but the debut of Victor Venbanyama for the adult national team “Le Bleu”. Top young European talent, and most likely the first-place player in the 2023 NBA Draft, has reached such a high level that he has become one of the main players on his team. The big man, who played with 20 points and 9 rebounds in the match played against the Lithuanians, recorded 19 points in Venbanyama in the match played against Bosnia. With such a game we are waiting for Victor in his application for the final division of the world championship.

The Czech national team, led by Prometheus head coach Ronen Ginsburg, has completely lost its chance to exit the group, and in this six, Montenegro, Hungary and Bosnia will play the final ticket.

Africa

African teams rested in November. On this continent, however, the second part of the election takes place in a slightly different way. There, instead of the three elimination windows of two matches, two game segments of three fights are held. We only remember that the Ivory Coast team participated in the final part of the world forum, and South Sudan had a chance to enter the final part of the 2023 World Cup and become the main sensation of the entire planet selection.

Five teams from Africa will go to the planetary forum, which will include the top two teams from each six and the top third placed team combined.

America

Surprisingly, the US team has not yet secured a place among the participants of the planetary forum. In the fifth game window, the Americans played two home games against Brazil and Colombia, but the win was only recorded in the game against those outside the group. In fairness, it’s worth noting that Stars and Stripes’ composition in these matches is far from even the average in-season samples. However, only a sporting miracle can prevent Americans from playing in the World Cup.

From the other side of the Atlantic, Canada was the only team guaranteed to make it to the final section of the tournament after five game windows. Maple skating rinks beat their rivals in qualifying without a single defeat so far, and after two defeats against Venezuela and Panama in November, national team managers can already officially book tickets to Asia.

Not only do three teams from each group go from the American constituency to the world championship, they also go to the best team out of the two winners with fourth place.

Asia and Oceania

Interesting events are taking place in the continent that will host the upcoming championship. Most of the teams that will play in the world championship are already known. It is worth noting that following the early departure of the Indonesian national team from the 2022 Asian Championship in September of this year, a vacant spot has appeared in the planet forum selection (FIBA has not provided a place for Indonesians in advance. The final stage of the tournament is the right to play there either in the qualification or in the continental championship. they had to win). Now in the 2023 World Cup from Asia, the best three teams from two groups + the national teams of Japan and the Philippines as hosts will take the stage.

In group F, the continental giants – Australia and China – solved their problems. After a very successful start, Kazakhstan, which has already lost five in a row and made the tournament life as difficult as possible, but Iran received an undeserved gift. Australians, who are already participants in the final episode, have decided not to go to this troubled country out of concern for the life and health of their delegations. FIBA inflicted a technical defeat on the “boomers” and an unrequited victory fell on Iran, who decently untied their hands in the fight for the final ticket to the 2023 World Cup.

In Six E, Lebanon and New Zealand qualified for the World Cup. Considering that the Philippines is following the home quota, the Jordan team should not have any problems making the final entry to the tournament.

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Basketball teams around the world have a short road to go on their long journey to qualify for the world championship. In February, all fans of the orange ball will know the names of all thirty-two teams that will play in the 2023 World Cup final. We hope that Ukraine will be among them, but for now, instead of an afterword, we will bring together all the teams that have already passed this thorny road and can prepare for next year’s main basketball tournament: Japan, Philippines (both hosts), Spain, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Finland, Latvia, Greece, France, Lithuania, Australia, New Zealand, Lebanon, China, Canada, Ivory Coast.

Good company, looking forward to others.