FIBA U19 World Championship for Men

Aspiring basketball stars will get their chance to shine at the upcoming FIBA U19 World Championship for Men.

The tournament is the first FIBA (Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateur) event to be held in New Zealand and it features 16 nations playing 62 matches.

The 16 teams competing are: Angola, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Croatia, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Spain, Syria, and the USA.

This will be the first opportunity to see a New Zealand men's team competing at this level.

There will be live television coverage of all the Junior Tall Blacks matches along with the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.

The event will be broadcast to 140 countries, with an audience estimated to be more than 100 million. Interest in the tournament will see about 100 player scouts descend on the region along with approximately 400 athletes and officials.

Auckland City Council is one of the local supporters of the event.

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Updated June 2009