Bulgarian national basketball team

Bulgaria България
Nickname (s)	Lion (Лъвовете)
Association	Bulgarsska Federazija do Basketbol ( Bulgarian Българска федерация по баскетбол )
FIBA member since	1935
FIBA world rankings	44
Trainer	Konstantin Papasow
World championships
Participation in the finals	1
Best results	( 1959 )
Olympic games
Participation in the finals	4th
Best results	5th place ( 1956 )
Continental championships
championship	European Championship
Participation in the finals	24
Best results	. Course ( 1957 ) . Place ( 1961 )
Homepage	nt.basketball.bg
(As of September 13, 2013)

The Bulgarian national basketball team for men ( Bulgarian Национален отбор по баскетбол на България ) represents Bulgaria at international basketball matches.

history

Bulgaria had one of the strongest European national teams between the early 1950s and the mid-1960s and between 1951 and 1967 was able to place itself among the top five teams in nine European Championship finals except 1953. In 1957 they won a silver medal and in 1961 a bronze medal. The best place in global finals was a fifth place in the 1956 Olympics . While you were then always represented among the best eight teams in Europe at the continental finals up to and including 1977, you missed qualification for three of five finals in the 1980s, although Georgi Gluschkow was one of the first players in the US professional league NBA who grew up in a Warsaw Pact state. Between 1993 and 2005 you were not represented in the field of participants in six European Championship finals in a row. Although well-known coaches such as Israeli Pini Gershon tried to be the national coach of the selection, they have never made it past the preliminary round in three European Championship finals since 2005. When qualifying for the European Championship finals in 2013 , the German national team and the Swedish selection had to go first and were not represented at the finals.

A number of American basketball players were naturalized in Bulgaria, as there are stricter restrictions on foreigners for non-Europeans in southern European leagues. Among them are the German-born Earl Jerrod Rowland and Eric Williams , who never played in Bulgaria themselves. Rowland, on the other hand, played like the naturalized Jared Homan in the German basketball league and, unlike Homan, was also active for the national team in two European Championship finals in 2009 and 2011. The two sons of the national player Ilija Evtimow , who was active in France at the end of his playing career , went the opposite way . Wassil Evtimow was initially active for the French national team at the 2001 European Championship finals before he later participated in the 2009 European Championship finals for the Bulgarian national team . The better-known current national players also include another pair of brothers, the twins Dejan and Kalojan Ivanov , who have been active in Italy for a long time .

Current squad

Squad Bulgaria 2013

player No. Surname birth size info Calls society Guards ( PG , SG ) 8th Chavdar Kostov 04/18/1988 195 Levski Sofia 9 Branko Mirković 05/10/1982 190  Zmoki Minsk 10 Boschidar Avramov March 8, 1990 196 Lukoil Akademik Sofia 11 Ivan Lilov 08/06/1988 196  Gaz Metan Mediaș Forwards ( SF , PF ) 4th Dejan Ivanov 03/18/1986 205  CB Estudiantes 5 Kaloyan Ivanov 03/18/1986 205  Sidigas Avellino 12 Alexander Georgiev 01/20/1990 203 Lukoil academy 14th Pavel Ivanov 1988 200 Levski Sofia 24 Wesselin Wesselinow 02/16/1983 201 NN 35 Martin Durschew 07/08/1988 204  Planasa Navarre Center ( C ) 15th Kostadin Marshawelsky 10/12/1989 211 NN 21st Nikolai Varbanov 06/06/1985 210 Levski Sofia

Trainer Nat. Surname position Konstantin Papasow Head coach Legend Abbr. meaning swell Team homepage As of September 13, 2013

Known players

Other well-known players who have played for the national team in the past include:

Georgi Panow (* 1933) Lyubomir Panov (* 1933) Atanas Atanassow (* 1935) Petko Lasarow (* 1935) Ilija Mirtschew (* 1935) Viktor Radew (* 1936)

Ilija Evtimow (* 1956) Georgi Gluschkow (* 1960) Wassil Evtimow (* 1977) Todor Stojkow (* 1977) Dimitar Angelow (* 1979) Filip Widenow (* 1980)

Boyko Mladenow (* 1981) Ilian Evtimow (* 1983) Christo Nikolow (* 1985) Christo Sachariew (* 1990)

Naturalized players

Priest Lauderdale (* 1973) Roderick Blakney (* 1976) Willie Deane (* 1980) Andre Owens (* 1980) Earl Calloway (born 1983)

Jared Homan (* 1983) Earl Jerrod Rowland (* 1983) Ibrahim Jaaber (* 1984) Eric Williams (* 1984) Cedric Simmons (* 1986)

Performing in international tournaments

Olympic Summer Games

1936 - did not qualify 1948 - did not qualify 1952 - 7th place 1956 - 5th place 1960 - 16th place

1964 - did not qualify 1968 - 10th place 1972 - 2012 - did not qualify

World championships

• 1959 - 7th place
• otherwise: did not participate or did not qualify

European championship finals

1935 - 8th place 1937 - did not qualify 1939 - did not qualify 1946 - did not qualify 1947 - 8th place 1949 - did not qualify 1951 - 4th place 1953 - 9th place 1955 - 4th place 1957 - . space 1959 - 5th place 1961 - . space

1963 - 5th place 1965 - 5th place 1967 - 4th place 1969 - 7th place 1971 - 6th place 1973 - 6th place 1975 - 5th place 1977 - 6th place 1979 - 11th place 1981 - did not qualify 1983 - did not qualify 1985 - 8th place

1987 - did not qualify 1989 - 7th place 1991 - 8th place 1993 - 14th place 1995 - did not qualify 1997 - did not qualify 1999 - did not qualify 2001 - did not qualify 2003 - did not qualify 2005 - 13th place 2007 - did not qualify 2009 - 13th place

2011 - 13th place 2013 - did not qualify 2015 - did not qualify

Web links

• archive.fiba.com: Teams - Bulgaria (BUL) - Overview of selected teams of Bulgaria in the FIBA Archive ( English )
• Profile: Bulgaria (BUL) - Bulgarian Basketball Federation - Profile of the association on the FIBA ​​website (English)
• Bulgarian Basketball, Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings: Bulgarian Men National Team - Squad on the websites of Eurobasket.com (English)