Tbilisi: The Georgian National Basketball team registered a defeat from Italy in the second round of the match for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 European qualifiers in the Italian city of Brescia. Italy sealed the match in its favour with a score of 91:84.
Goga Bitadze became the leading scorer of the match as he scored double-double, thus accumulating double-digit totals in points and rebounds. At the same time, Georgia coincided its 2005 record of 11 effective passes.
Italy has continued its winning streak against Georgia in the last nine games between the two sides.
Georgia , now would be competing against Iceland in its upcoming match of the World Cup on November 11.
The Captain of the Georgian National Basketball team, Tornike Shenegelia, was injured during the match against the Netherlands. Although Georgia ended the match on a winning note, the Captain had left in a miserable condition. He tweeted a heartfelt message on missing the games in the upcoming Eurobasket tournament. While thanking everyone for their support,
he wrote:
Thank you all for your support, support, and positive messages. I can’t simply express how it feels to have such support from all of you. From the day it was announced that the Eurobasket will be held in my house, there is probably not a single day that I have not thought about this event. Every move I made was directed to ensure that I am ready to be part of those games and meet your expectations. But in sports, along with many other good times, these moments happen quite often.
At the same time, Tbilisi is all set to co-host the major European basketball event named ‘ Eurobasket 2023’, with the matches beginning from September 1.
