The Spanish basketball team, current European champion and world champion in 2019, faces Germany, current world champion, in the penultimate of its friendly commitments before the start of the Eurobasket 2025.
Spain adds three losses, two against France consecutively and against Portugal, and a victory, against the Czech Republic, in its four preparation games to date, marked by the continuous injuries that are ravaging the squad, and that have forced the coach Sergio Scariolo to call the young Guillem Ferrando, Isaac Nogués, Lucas Langarita and Álvaro Cárdenas to complete the team.
To the final decline of Alberto Abalde, the doubt of the Base Alberto Díaz is added, which has not yet been reinstated to the training with the rest of his teammates due to some inconvenience after the second preparation meeting against the Czech Republic, and those of the young Mario Saint-Supéry, who was injured during the meeting against France in Bercy.
The positive part is starred by Darío Brizuela and Santi Aldama. The escort was low in the last match against France for an overload, but it has already been reinstated to the dynamics of the national team, while, Aldama, who was injured in the first duel against Portugal, has also been exercised with his teammates during this week.
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With regard to the game, Spain improved the sensations of previous matches in its last confrontation as a visitor against France, although the team remains immersed in the process of change due to the numerous injuries it suffers.
For its part, Germany, which will lead Group B of the Eurobasket, arrives at the match with a positive balance of three victories, against Slovenia twice and against Turkey, and a defeat, against Serbia, the maximum favorite to the European title for this edition.
The German team, trained by the Spanish Álex Mmbrú, maintains part of the champion block of the last World Cup, won under the direction of its predecessor, Canadian Gordon Herbert, with the exteriors Dennis Schröeder and Franz Wagner as the main referents in attack. In addition, the duel will serve to see David Krämer, a new Real Madrid player, in which he will be his new house, the Movistar Arena in Madrid.
Just before the start of the game between the last two world champions, the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) will pay tribute to the base Sergio Llull, recently retired from the national team, after dressing the Spanish shirt on 173 occasions and after becoming the world champion in 2019, double European champion in 2009 and 2011, silver medal at the London 2012 and Bronze Games in the Games of Rio 2016 and Eurobasket of 2013.
Spain and Germany will be measured once again, next Saturday in Colonia (Germany), in their last friendly before traveling to the European, which is celebrated from August 27 to September 14 at the headquarters of Cyprus, Finland, Poland and Latvia.
