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☆ Basketball Serbia and Germany in pursuit of first World Cup title
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Neil Jerome Morales | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MANILA, Sept 9 (Reuters) - A first-time winner will be crowned on Sunday when Serbia and Germany lock horns in the first all-European final at the FIBA World Cup since 2006. Reaching the final allowed Serbia and Germany to exorcise forgettable 2019 campaigns. Serbia were knocked out in the quarter-finals, while Germany finished a lowly 18th. "It is great to see two teams that have earned their way," Spain's Pau Gasol, the World Cup global ambassador, said in a talk show on Saturday. The Germans have won three of their five tussles against Serbia, including their last two meetings.

Persons: Nikola Milutinov, Spain's Pau, Germany's Andreas Obst, Nobody, it's, Serbia's Filip Petrusev, Nikola Jokic, Simanic, Neil Jerome Morales, Pritha Sarkar Organizations: FIBA, Spain's Pau Gasol, Reuters, Philadelphia 76ers, Canada, NBA, Thomson Locations: MANILA, Serbia, Germany, Spain, United States, Manila, Sudan

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — There will be no gold medal for the U.S. at this World Cup. Germany — the last unbeaten team left in the tournament at 7-0 — will play Serbia on Sunday (8:40 a.m. EDT) for the World Cup title. Serbia beat Canada in the first semifinal, getting to its second World Cup final in the last three tournaments; it lost 129-92 to the U.S. in the 2014 championship game. Germany had been 0-6 against the Americans in World Cup or Olympic competition, usually getting blown out in those games. Once again, even bringing the only roster filled with all NBA players wasn’t enough for the U.S. at the World Cup.

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With the win, Germany is assured of no worse than its second-best finish in basketball’s top two international events — the World Cup and the Olympics. The Germans were third in the 2002 world championships, an event now called the World Cup, and have never placed better than seventh at an Olympics. Latvia — which has been without the injured Kristaps Porzingis — can still finish as high as fifth in its first World Cup appearance. Germany's in the semifinal of the World Cup,” Germany's Moritz Wagner said. I'm going to enjoy this and then I'm going to think about the USA tomorrow.”___AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and AP sports: https://apnews.com/sports

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