MOSCOW, February 23 the home match of the 2023 World Cup qualifier with the Netherlands team, according to the official website of the Russian Basketball Federation. The Group H meeting will take place on Thursday in Perm. Nizhny Novgorod defender Ivan Strebkov will be the captain of the Russian national team. The Russian team included 12 basketball players: defenders — Timofey Gerasimov (Yenisei, Krasnoyarsk), Vladislav Emchenko (Lokomotiv Kuban, Krasnodar), Makar Konovalov (MBA, Moscow ), Strebkov; forwards — Anton Astapkovich, Alexander Gankevich (both — Nizhny Novgorod), Stanislav Ilnitsky (Lokomotiv Kuban), Anton Kvitkovskikh (Avtodor, Saratov), Artem Komolov (UNICS, Kazan), Mark Tikhonenko («Astana», Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan); center — Vladimir Ivlev (CSKA, Moscow), Sergey Toropov («Nizhny Novgorod»). Lokomotiv-Kuban») and Alexander Platunov («Parma», Perm). At the same time, they retain a chance to enter the court in the away game with the Netherlands team on February 27 in Almere. The Russian team is leading the group with two victories. The Dutch team has suffered two defeats and is in last place.
