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Türkiye vs Bulgaria 83-71 (69244)

The game shape of our key players was really good this week, and the outcome was that even with gdp missed, we beat Bulgaria on their home court.

In one of our friendly matches against Serbia, our 2-3 zone proved to be extremely strong against inside tactics (67822). My goal was to have 2-3 zone as a hidden weapon for matches like this, and it worked. I was more afraid of their neutral tactics, with which they beat Portugal (68683) & Uruguay (69192), but they chose to play inside, and our 2-3 zone did the job.

In an incredible turnaround of events, only Romania and us remain as the candidates for hosting the European Championship next season.

Serbia, Russia, Slovenia, Portugal, Letonia and Bosnia, all lost their matches in this round. In other words, we suddenly became the main candidate to host the European Championship.

Quarter finals are:

**Suomi (8) - **France (1)
Türkiye (13) – Colombia (12)
**Belgium (2) – **Lietuva (7)
România (14) – Brasil (11)/México (6)

@Captain K

A question to you. Except France, Belgium, Lithuania and Finland there are only 2 European teams are on their way: Us and Romania. Let's say if France wins the tournament, who will host the next championship next season? A better ranking team -it's Bosna and Herzegovina or the country who goes further?

If the answer is the second one and if us and Romania loses in the next round or if we win and Romania loses, we will host. Right?

Whoever goes further will host the championship next season. In other words, if both Romania and us lose in the same round, we would still host the next championship (since we were better placed than them). I'll double check it with the BBs, but I'm pretty sure that's the case.

Speaking for myself, I want you to stay if you are interested as well. I don't know if it's your final decision or not and the reason behind that but i hope you reconsider continuing.

Thank you for your support and kind words, but there's probably 80% chance that I won't be the candidate again in the next elections, even if we host the next championship. The main reason doesn't have anything to do with bb.

At the beginning of the year, I was diagnosed with some uncommon eye disease, and while it's not super serious, I'm not able to spend much time looking at a PC screen. A NT coach should be able to send hundreds of bb-mails each season over training, but I'm simply not able to do that right now. So I think it's better for the community if someone replaces me.

Hope to hear good news from you, get well soon coach!

I'm sorry to hear your health issue. Get well soon coach. Your health is the most important thing.
Meanwhile, I appreciate your coaching, I am also very pleased with the interest you have shown in the national team. At the end of the day, I hope you are gonna recuperate and make the best decision about NT.

This night, we'll be playing against Colombia, the country which will host the American Tournament next season.

CM-Alonso confirmed to me that Türkiye or Romania will host the European Tournament next season, so this night will be decisive. While we're traveling to Colombia, Romania is traveling to Mexico.

If Romania loses, and we win, we'll be the host.
If both of us lose, we'll still be the host.
If both of us win, than next week will decide who is the host.
And if we lose, and Romania wins, Romania will be the host.

So we're in a good position. And even though Colombia has the home-court advantage, I think we'll be the slight favorites since we should have higher enthusiasm than them.

Also, thanks to everyone for the support, I appreciate it. But my condition isn't as serious as it may sound. I just have trouble looking at artificial lights (monitor, tv, phone, etc.), but other than that, it's all good.

02:30 Türkiye vs Colombia

Türkiye vs Colombia 110-91 (69303)

Easy victory because they thought we were gonna play outside. Oluk got injured in at the beginning of the game, which caused some weird rotations inside, but other than that, everything else went well for us.

Now, we are one step closer to host the European Tournament, but we're not quite there yet, because Romania also won their match against Mexico (69305). In the other quarterfinals, France won against Finland (69302), and Belgium won against Lithuania (69304). So the semi-finals are:

Türkiye (13) - **France (1)
România (14) - **Belgium (2)

Honestly, it would take a miracle for either Romania or us to win the next match, cause we've both spend a lot of enthusiasm to get to the semi-final. Romania played normal against Philippines, crunch time against Russia, and crunch time against Mexico. So their enthusiasm is about 3. Our enthusiasm isn't that bad, but we still probably have much lower enthusiasm than France.

Realistically, France & Belgium will win next Monday, and Türkiye will get to host the European Tournament. But of course, we'll try to somehow win against France, even though it's unlikely.

The day that will determine who will host the European Championship has finally arrived. We are up against France, one of the strongest nations in Europe.

Here's something interesting: They're led by coach Smudge (85553), who wasn't even a candidate in the previous elections. How is Smudge France's NT coach than? Well the manager who won their elections in season 59 (DunkerJoe), was sacked from the position, because he had less than 25% support from the community. In such situations, the rules say that the candidate who was second in the elections, should take over. But the EGM of France refused to follow the game rules, and asked the BBs to give it to Smudge, who wasn't even in the elections, simply because he thought he was a better choice than the no.2 in the elections.

Either way, regardless of who their manager is, we have very little chance of winning. But the same goes for Romania who is playing against Belgium. I guess there is a small chance that Belgium loses on purpose, and sells the game to Romania, since Belgium can't host the EC, and they don't get much from winning. Hopefully, that won't happen.

20:30 Türkiye vs France
20:35 România vs Belgium

I just want to say I like your speech before matches. Thanks for effort

Last edited by Tayanç at 5/8/2023 7:39:48 AM

Türkiye vs France 88-112 (69359)
România vs Belgium 136-149 (69360)

It's a sweet defeat, because Türkiye will host the next European Championship

Well, we still have to wait for the start of the season to get the confirmation. Reading foreign forums, everyone is convinced that according to the new rules, Türkiye will be the host. CM-Alonso also told me that Türkiye should be the host. But, I'd still like to get a confirmation from a BB.

As for today's match, France had much bigger enthusiasm, and a home court advantage. My thoughts were that our only hope of making the game somewhat interesting, would be if France didn't play their strongest offensive tactic, and we guessed their gdp. However, they played their strongest offensive tactics, played it safe, and won easily.

Our goal before the season was to host the next EC, and we managed to do it. I wish I could say it was 90% because of my genius coaching, but admittedly, it's more accurate to say that it was 44% luck, 54% poor results from other strong nations, and 2% my coaching

Nevertheless, we reached our desired destination. I'm hoping that an experienced and ambitions Türkiye manager will be interesting to be the candidate in the next elections, because next season will be a great opportunity for Türkiye to win a medal.