Germani Brescia will face another Italian club in the Eurocup

Germani Brescia in Group A

The draw was held in Barcelona, Spain, for the two regular season rounds of the 7DAYS EuroCup, the prestigious European competition that will kick off next Wednesday, October 12, and in which Germani Brescia will participate for the fourth time in its history, the first since Pallacanestro Brescia was born.

Expected to play eighteen fascinating games, nine to be played in front of their home crowd and nine away, the white-blue team has been placed in Group A and will face some of the most emblazoned teams on the continental scene.

The quintet led by Alessandro Magro, in fact, will face Joventut Badalona (Spain), Cedevita Olimpija Lubiana (Slovenia), Umana Reyer Venezia (Italy), Frutti Extra Bursaspor (Turkey), Lietkabelis Panevezys (Lithuania), Mincidelis JL Bourg-en-Bresse (France), ratiopharm Ulm (Germany), U-BT Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Prometey Slobozhanske (Ukraine), a team that will play its home games in Riga, the capital of Latvia.

Group B, meanwhile, will feature the following teams competing: Hapoel Tel Aviv (Israel), Gran Canaria (Spain), Buducnost VOLI Podgorica (Montenegro), Dolomiti Energia Trentino (Italy), Turk Telekom Ankara (Turkey), Promitheas Patras (Greece), Paris Basketball (France), Hamburg Towers (Germany), Slask Wroclaw (Poland) and London Lions (England).

Marco Patuelli, chief operating officer of the Lombard club, spoke after the draw: “Pallacanestro Brescia celebrated its second birthday yesterday and is in its first participation in the EuroCup, earned on the court with the results of the previous season. For Pallacanestro Brescia it is an honor to be able to participate in a European competition like the EuroCup. Our owner Mauro Ferrari has made significant economic efforts and Germani Brescia will honor the competition game by game. The group in which we have been drawn is tough, we will face some teams that reached the EuroCup playoffs last season and others that we have already faced in the past.”