Dario Gjergja extends his contract with the Belgian Lions. Dario Gjergja will continue to coach the Belgian men’s national basketball team until the 2023 World Cup. The 45-year-old Croat extended his contract until the 2023 World Cup. In 11 games with the Lions, Gjergja only lost 1, against Lithuania. Dario Gjergja succeeded Eddy Casteels in…
Dario Gjergja wants 2 wins in the Eurbasket Qualifiers:”When you play for your country, you can’t play relaxed” Dario Gjergja, the Belgian Lions coach, knows that a victory against Denmark on Saturday would ensure Belgium’s first place in Group C, and therefore a qualification, 5th in a row, for the Eurobasket 2022, but the coach…
This Sunday morning, we talked to Maxime De Zeeuw: “ The Basketball IQ of Dario Gjergja is off the charts“ In our TIB Playground podcast, Maxime De Zeeuw talked about Dario Gjergja:” His basketball IQ is off the charts. Dario Gjergja knows everything, he lives for basketball. He’s a real student of the game. He…
Dario Gjergja is “happy” after the games in the bubble. The Lions finished the Vilnius bubble with 1 win against Czech Repubic and 1 loss against Lithuania. “I am very happy with our record“, Gjergja said at a press conference following Belgium’s defeat against the Lithuanians. “When you see that Lithuania has between 65 and…
Retin Obasohan was happy after the win against Czech Republic:” I’m proud of our team. From the first guy to the last one. We did our best to represent our country. This was a great team effort. When we trust each other, we bring the best of each other.” Dario Gjergja also reacted after the…
On May 25th Basketball Club Ostend celebrates its 50th anniversary. The past nine years, Filou Oostende turned out to be unbeatable in the Finals of Belgian basketball. In the last century, there was yet another period of success. Ostend was not exactly a top team in the seventies, until a young talented player – Rik…
After the amazing successes of our Belgian Cats it was now up to our Belgian Lions to put Belgian Basketball on the map. And in this first game of the FIBA EuroBasket 2021 Qualifiers they did just that by defeating number 8 in the world Lithuania with the convincing 86-65 final score. Although we can’t…
