The national team, which managed to beat Slovakia 75-40 at home and Iceland 72-65 on the road in the first two matches in Group F, is in the leadership seat in the group. Basketball Development Center will host the 3rd match of the National Women’s Basketball Team. This match will be the first national match at the Basketball Development Center.
The crescent-star women’s basketball players and technical staff talked about their future goals along with their evaluations of the European championship at the media day held before the 3rd match in Group F of the FIBA 2025 Women’s European Championship Qualifiers.
HİDAYET TÜRKOĞLU: WE ARE ALWAYS BEHIND OUR TEAM
Turkish Basketball Federation President Hidayet Türkoğlu thanked the press members who did not leave them alone in the excitement of a national match again. Türkoğlu said: “For us, national teams are the processes where excitement is highest for both men and women. We wish success to the entire team in the matches they will play tomorrow against Romania and then against Slovakia. As the management, we have always stood behind our team, and we will continue to do so from now on. I congratulate them for starting off so well. “Hopefully, with good basketball tomorrow in front of our own fans and in the away game, we will show that the women’s basketball team’s goal of participating in the European Championship is stronger day by day.”
EKREM MEMNU: WE PREPARED WELL, THE PLAYERS ARE VERY MOTIVATED
National Women’s Basketball Team Head Coach Ekrem Memnun reminded that they have now won 2 matches in the group and are in the leading position, and said that the Romania match is very important in terms of participating in the 2025 European Women’s Championship. Memnun continued his words as follows: “We attach great importance to this match, I think we are well prepared. The players are very motivated. These window matches are generally not very easy for the players because everyone played a league match in their own clubs 3 days ago. No matter how much we know each other, we need to be a new team. We want to come first in this group and take our place in the European Championship. We have very big goals for the Women’s National Basketball team. I think we have received less interest than our value because we have missed a couple of tournaments recently. We want to regain the respect and attention we deserve with the game we play and the fight we put forward. “I invite all our fans to the hall for the important match tomorrow.”
YASMIN HORASABN: I HOPE IT WILL BE A GREAT ENVIRONMENT TOMORROW AND WE WILL LEAVE WITH A WINNER.
National Women’s Basketball Team Manager Yasemin Horasan stated that she hopes that the national team will reflect their best performance on the field and leave the field with a good result and said, “We expect the support of all our people tomorrow. “I hope there will be a very good environment tomorrow and we will leave with a victory,” he said.
NİLAY KARTALTEPE: WE ARE VERY EXCITED
Women’s National Teams Director Nilay Kartaltepe said that they were fortunate to play at the Basketball Development Center as a manager and said, “I am really excited as much as my fellow players. We meet again tomorrow night with the Romania match. We are very excited. We continue on our way with 2 out of 2. “We are excited to play in Turkey and appear before the beautiful audience,” he said.
OLCAY ÇAKIR TURGUT: WE ARE WAITING FOR YOUR SUPPORT
Olcay Çakır Turgut, Captain of the National Women’s Basketball Team, said that the match to be played tomorrow is very important for them and that they are trying to be a team and said, “We expect the support of all of you at the Basketball Development Center and on television. “We would love for you to support us,” he said.
THE STARS FINISHED THEIR EDUCATION
The National Women’s Basketball Team, which will face Romania in the 3rd match of the FIBA 2025 Women’s European Championship Qualifiers Group F, has completed its preparations. The first 15 minutes of the training at the Basketball Development Center, under the management of Head Coach Ekrem Memnun, were open to the press. In the part of the training closed to the press, the focus was on the tactics of the Romania match.
On the other hand, Elif Bayram completed her individual training in the nationals.
The Crescent-Stars will host Romania tomorrow at 19.00 at the Basketball Development Center.
