Facing a serious challenge on opening day of Euroleague

The most prestigious international women's competition, the Euroleague is getting started on Wednesday. The schedule calls our team to France, just like last year, but hopefully this ends better than last season's opening day.

Last year the first task awaited on the home court of Flammes Carolo. That time we were unable to succeed. The rookies have summoned a great deal of energy against our team that has got the silver medal in the previous season and came up with a well-deserved victory. Our team that has become even younger will have an even more difficult task to complete on opening day.

Last year's EuroCup and French league runners-up have come to the group stage of Euroleague from the qualifiers, not giving a chance to Olympiacos. What shows their strength te best is the fact that they have overcome French title holders Lyon easily, 74-58, even though Lyon are pursuing to take over the top squad title from Bourges in France.

The GM work of former renowned point guard Edwige Lawson-Wade has brought BLMA to an upward trajectory very quickly, who, despite the great season they had last year has changed a little during the summer, but as shown, they haven't become any weaker. They survived the loss of one of their leaders, Serbian ace Ana Dabovic to Bourges. They have everything to do something memorable in Euroleague after EuroCup.

Let's take a look at the arrivals. The biggest move they made proved to be the addition of American Stephanie Mavunga from Krasnojarsk. The center who is a great scorer and an effective rebounder has become one of the leaders at her new station very quickly as well. In the qualifiers she brought an outstanding 31.5 efficiency rating. It will be very hard to stop her, especially considering that Marie-Michelle Milapie who joined the team from Basket Landes is also a strong force under the rims. Gabby Williams who left Girona behind for this opportunity is also capable of delivering an outstanding performance in multiple areas. Aside from scoring she also excels at assisting her teammates and collecting rebounds. With her 32 years of age Laeticia Kamba represents experience, while Swedish player Klara Lundquist represents the new generation. From the creators of last year's success, American scorer Samantha Whitcomb, great point guard Romane Bernies, Alix Duchet, who is capable of great performances despite her young age of 21 one years, and 28-year-old Diandra Tchatchouang is worth mentioning. The nine of them are on whom the team's physical and well-organized style of play is built. They represent the typical French basketball, which may cause their rivals a lot of trouble.

The game will also be a great challenge for us too. Head coach Dávid Gáspár is also eagerly waiting for our debut in Euroleague, where we will need to take control, and be focused all along.



The game that tips off at 8.00 pm can be followed via live online statistics at the FIBA website, and via live video streaming on the Euroleague YouTube channel.

- 2019-10-15

As it is known, since no champions were announced in our domestic leagues, the Hungarian Basketball Federation has sorted out the international cup seeds based on the results of the past three seasons, picking our team for the Euroleague spot

A július is aktívan telik csapatunk tagjai számára

A decision has been made about closing this season's international tournaments at the FIBA Board's online meeting

A FIBA Board online ülésén döntés született arról, hogy az idei szezon nemzetközi sorozatai lezárásra kerülnek

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Új szakvezetővel, tovább fiatalított csapattal vágtunk neki az idei szezonnak, melynek kezdete minden várakozásunkat felülmúlta

We got into this season with a new head coach and a roster that was even younger than before, and the beginning of it was above all expectations

Who would have thought back in 2018 that a year later we would be able to host the Euroleague FINAL4 again? Well, the world set their eyes on Sopron again, because the decision-makers at FIBA thought that only the experience staff of our club would be able to organize the event on a high level within three weeks

Ki gondolta volna 2018-ban, hogy egy év múlva ismét mi rendezhetjük az Euroliga négyes döntőjét? Már pedig ismét Sopronra szegezte tekintetét a nagyvilág, miután a FIBA döntnökei úgy gondolták, egyesül a mi klubunk tapasztalt stábja tudja három hét alatt megszervezni magas színvonalon az eseményt

It is generally thought that it is always easier to get to the top than to stay there

Általános vélekedés, hogy a csúcsra mindig könnyebb felérni, mint ott maradni

Regarding the 2018 Euroleague Final every basketball enthusiast was preparing for celebration

A 2018-as FINAL4 döntője kapcsán ünnepre készült minden magyar kosárlabda barát! Először léphetett pályára magyar csapat az Euroliga elsőségért! A túloldalon egy kisebb világválogatott sorakozott fel, mely érvényre is juttatta nagyobb erejét a remekül küzdő csapatunkkal szemben

Our center Betti Határ has been suffering from pain in her ankle, and has finally decided to undergo operation

Centerünk, Határ Betti a szezon utolsó másfél hónapjában sokszor kínlódott a bokájával, és végül úgy döntött, hogy aláveti magát az operációnak

Our club has completed the creation of the roster for the 2020/2021 season

Klubunk befejezte a 2020/21-es kosárlabda szezon csapatának kialakítását

Even making it to the FINAL4 in 2018 was an incredible performance, not to mention that for the first time in club history we were able to host the top clubs of Euroleague and many important personalities of the basketball world

Már az is elképesztő teljesítmény volt, hogy 2018-ban ott lehettünk a FINAL4-ban, arról nem is beszélve, hogy fennállásunk során először láthattuk vendégül rendezőként az Euroliga top csapatait és a kosárlabda világ számos neves személyiségét

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