MUNICH (Germany) - Playing for the national team is one of the biggest honors an athlete can achieve.
The FIBA EuroBasket 2025 Qualifiers were a chance for players across the continent to play for their nation's colors. And a total of 108 players from 29 countries not only answered the call but played in all six games - making them the Qualifiers Heroes.
Fourteen nations had at least four players appear in all six of the games in the February 2024, November 2024 and February 2025 windows.
The country with the most players answering the call for all six games was EuroBasket 2025 co-hosts Cyprus with seven players - Ioannis Giannaras, Aeneas Jung, Simon Michail, Ioannis Pasiali, Konstantinos Simitzis, Nikolaos Stylianou and Filippos Tigkas.
Four national teams had six players who appeared in all of the games over the three windows - Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Poland and Portugal.
Many other players, including some of the competition's top stars, represented their nations in five of the six games, making appearances in all three windows.
Croatian Mario Hezonja showed over five games why he is one of the best on the continent, Denmark's Iffe Lundberg also played in five games and the same can be said of Toko Shengelia and Giorgi Shermadini of Georgia.
Three of the 32 countries had no player appear in all six games.
However, there was still an element of consistency, as all of them had at least one player with appearances in all three windows: France's Andrew Albicy, Xabi Lopez-Arostegui of Spain and Giordano Bortolani of Italy.
Here is the full list of players:
Belgium: Thijs De Ridder, Loic Schwartz, Jo Van Buggenhout Bosnia and Herzegovina: Amar Alibegovic, Kenan Kamenjas, Aleksandar Lazic, Adin Vrabac Bulgaria: Ivan Alipiev, Dimitar Dimitrov, Pavlin Ivanov, Konstantin Kostadinov, Yordan Minchev, Konstantin Toshkov Croatia: Dario Dreznjak, Mateo Dreznja, Borna Kapusta Cyprus: Ioannis Giannaras, Aeneas Jung, Simon Michail, Ioannis Pasiali, Konstantinos Simitzis, Nikolaos Stylianou, Filippos Tigkas Czechia: Jaromir Bohacik, Vojtech Hruban, Martin Peterka, Ondrej Sehnal Denmark: Tobias Jensen, Kevin Larsen, Sylvester Berg Pedersen, Mads Bonde Sturupu Estonia: Artur Konontsuk, Kristian Kullamae, Matthias Tass, Kaspar Treier, Siim-Sander Vene Finland: Edon Maxhuni, Illar Seppala, Elias Valtonen Germany: David Kramer, Nelson Weidemann Georgia: Beka Burjanadze, Kakhaber Jintcharadze Great Britain: Amin Adamu, Myles Hesson, Carl Wheatle Greece: Vasileios Toliopoulos Hungary: Gyorgy Goloman, Akos Keller, Zoltan Perl, Benedek Varadi, David Vojvoda Iceland: Elvar Fridriksson, Trygvi Hlinasson, Kristinn Palsson, Aegir Steinarsson, Styrmir Thrastarson Israel: Itay Segev, Bar Timor Latvia: Klavs Cavars, Marcis Steinbergs, Kristers Zoriks Lithuania: Kristupas Zemaitis Montenegro: Zoran Nikolic, Dino Radoncic, Nemanja Radovic, Andrija Slavkovic Netherlands: Menno Dijkstra, Charlon Kloof, Yannick Kraag, Luuk Van Bree, Kaye van der Vuurst North Macedonia: Victor Efremovski, Stojan Gjuroski, Bojan Krstevski, Andrej Maslinko, Damjan Robev, Vojdan Stojanovski Poland: Aleksander Dziewa, Michal Michalak, Luke Petrasek, Andrzej Pluta, Jakub Schenk, Michal Sokolowski Portugal: Diogo Brito, Goncalo Delgado, Rafael Lisboa, Miguel Queiroz, Diogo Ventura, Travante Williams Serbia: Aleksa Avramovic, Dusan Deslac, Balsa Koprivica Slovakia: Mario Ihring, Timotej Malovec, Samuel Volarik Slovenia: Leon Stergar Sweden: Denzel Andersson, Viktor Gaddefors, Barra Njie, Melwin Pantzar, Adam Ramstedt Türkiye: Sehmus Hazer, Ercan Osmani, Kenan Sipahi Ukraine: Vyacheslav Bobrov, Artem Pustovyi, Ivan Tkachenko
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