{"id":243479,"date":"2026-01-17T18:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/243479\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:23:08","slug":"fiba-visit-to-moldova-yields-support-for-basketball-projects-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/243479\/","title":{"rendered":"FIBA visit to Moldova yields support for basketball projects in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHISINAU (Moldova) &#8211; FIBA Europe President Jorge Garbajosa and FIBA Executive Director Europe Kamil Novak concluded on Saturday a very productive trip to Moldova, providing a boost to the country\u2019s future basketball development plans.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Garbajosa and Mr. Novak discussed at length matters related to development and the prospects of the country as a host of FIBA events with Alexander Abramciuc, the Basketball Federation of Moldova President.<\/p>\n<p>The FIBA Europe duo then held talks with Dan Perciun, Moldova\u2019s Minister of Education and Research, and Sergiu Gurin, Secretary of State at Ministry of Education and Research.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Garbajosa, Mr. Novak and Mr. Abramciuc with Moldova Minister of Education and Research Dan Perciun (middle)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Abramciuc informed us about the different projects that he wants to develop in the country, together with the basketball ecosystem in Moldova, and we had a very fruitful meeting with the Minister and the Secretary to encourage them to encourage the government to support these projects,&#8221; explained Mr. Garbajosa.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by local media what Moldova needs to do in order to host big FIBA competitions in the future, Mr. Garbajosa replied: &#8220;You have all the conditions to do it, you have to prepare a good plan, prepare a god bid and the Board will examine it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moldova most recently played host to the FIBA U16 Women&#8217;s EuroBasket Division C tournament in back-to-back years, 2018 and 2019, and reached the semi-final on both occasions. <\/p>\n<p>FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHISINAU (Moldova) &#8211; FIBA Europe President Jorge Garbajosa and FIBA Executive Director Europe Kamil Novak concluded on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-243479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}