Torneo de las Naciones
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The Torneo de las Naciones (Nations Tournament) is a friendly basketball tournament held in Spain co-organized by the basketball federations of Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia. This three regional teams participate each year in a Final Four format with an invited national team.
The players in the tournament are not identified with the Spain men's national basketball team, and the invited teams usually do not participate with their best players.
Champions
[edit]Ed. | Year | Host | Winner | Runner-up | Score | MVP | Third place | Fourth place |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I |
2008 |
Girona | Basque Country | Galicia | 80–72 |
Javi Salgado | Catalonia | Portugal |
II |
2009 |
Bilbao | Basque Country | Canada | 75–68 |
Urko Otegi | Catalonia | Galicia |
III |
2010 |
Lugo | Catalonia | Lithuania[1] | 78–67 |
Guillem Rubio | Basque Country | Galicia |
Team | W | RU | Winning years |
---|---|---|---|
Basque Country | 2 |
0 |
2008, 2009 |
Catalonia | 1 |
0 |
2010 |
Invited team | 0 |
2 |
|
Galicia | 0 |
1 |
Results
[edit]I Copa de las Naciones 2008
[edit]Semi-finals | Final | |||||
6 June | ||||||
Galicia | 70 | |||||
7 June | ||||||
Portugal | 62 | |||||
Galicia | 72 | |||||
6 June | ||||||
Basque Country | 80 | |||||
Catalonia | 79 | |||||
Basque Country | 81 | |||||
Third place | ||||||
7 June | ||||||
Portugal | 63 | |||||
Catalonia | 93 |
II Copa de las Naciones 2009
[edit]Semi-finals | Final | |||||
26 June | ||||||
Catalonia | 68 | |||||
27 June | ||||||
Canada | 69 | |||||
Canada | 68 | |||||
26 June | ||||||
Basque Country | 75 | |||||
Basque Country | 84 | |||||
Galicia | 80 | |||||
Third place | ||||||
27 June | ||||||
Catalonia | 93 | |||||
Galicia | 72 |
III Copa de las Naciones 2010
[edit]Semi-finals | Final | |||||
2 July | ||||||
Basque Country | 72 | |||||
3 July | ||||||
Catalonia | 76 | |||||
Catalonia | 78 | |||||
2 July | ||||||
Lithuania | 67 | |||||
Galicia | 71 | |||||
Lithuania | 76 | |||||
Third place | ||||||
3 July | ||||||
Galicia | 71 | |||||
Basque Country | 79 |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Lithuania played with a team composed basically by LKKA-Atletas players