{"id":122821,"date":"2026-08-31T22:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/?p=122821"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T10:44:45","slug":"italbasket-sconfitta-dalla-serbia-qualificazione-al-mondiale-ancora-da-conquistare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/italbasket-sconfitta-dalla-serbia-qualificazione-al-mondiale-ancora-da-conquistare\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#039;s national basketball team defeated by Serbia, World Cup qualification still to be secured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">PESARO \u2013 The Azzurri basketball team lost 64-76 in their big match against Serbia, which moves them above Italy in the FIBA World Cup 2027 Qualifiers Group J standings. Coach Banchi&#039;s team played on equal terms against Jokic and his teammates, but in the final five minutes, Serbia&#039;s physicality prevailed, widening the lead to a final 12-point lead. Nico Mannion (23 points, 10-of-10 free throws) was the Azzurri&#039;s top scorer. Simone Fontecchio also scored in double figures with 15 points.<br \/>\nThe fifth qualifying window is in November, in which Italy (5 wins and 3 losses) now sits third behind Turkey (who already qualified for the World Cup thanks to their eighth win, coming in Iceland 73-110) and Serbia (6-2), and ahead of Lithuania, Bosnia, and Iceland. Italy will face Turkey and coach Alimpijevic&#039;s team again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Italy-Serbia 64-76 (19-20, 12-20, 23-17, 10-19)<br \/>\nItaly: Mannion* 23 (2\/6, 3\/5), Tonut 2 (1\/1), Melli* 2 (1\/2, 0\/3), Fontecchio 15 (0\/2, 3\/8), Thompson 15 (0\/2, 3\/8), Tessitori ne, Ricci 4 (2\/2, 0\/2), Spagnolo, Niang* 8 (2\/8, 0\/1), Baldasso ne, Akele*, Emejuru 5 (2\/4). All: Banchi<br \/>\nSerbia: Dangubic 4 (0\/1 from three), Jovic* 5 (2\/2), Momirov ne, Dobric* 9 (3\/5, 0\/5), Jokic* 8 (1\/2, 0\/2), Lakic, Guduric* 19 (4\/7, 2\/6), Tanaskovic 5 (1\/1, 0\/1), Davidovac ne, Avramovic* 20 (4\/7, 4\/13), Milutinov 3 (0\/1), Novak 3 (1\/1 from three). All: Alimpijevic<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Two-pointers Italy 10\/27, Ser 15\/25; Three-pointers Italy 7\/22, Ser 7\/29; Free throws Italy 23\/26, Ser 25\/32. Rebounds Italy 27 (Melli 7), Ser 40 (Jokic 8). Assists Italy 17 (Mannion 4), Ser 13 (Guduric 4). 5 fouls called: Akele, Jovic<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESARO &#8211; Gli Azzurri del basket escono sconfitti 64-76 dal big match con la Serbia, che con questa vittoria scavalca proprio l\u2019Italia nella classifica del Girone J di FIBA World Cup 2027 Qualifiers. La squadra di coach Banchi ha giocato ad armi pari contro Jokic e compagni, ma negli ultimi 5 minuti la fisicit\u00e0 della [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sb_editor_width":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1521,2627,2628,1522,2631],"ppma_author":[787],"class_list":["post-122821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basket","tag-fiba-world-cup-2027","tag-italbasket","tag-luca-banchi","tag-nico-mannion","tag-simone-fontecchio"],"relative_dates":{"created":"4 weeks ago","modified":"4 weeks ago"},"authors":[{"term_id":787,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"primapress","display_name":"RED-CENTRALE","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","author_category":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122822,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122821\/revisions\/122822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122821"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=122821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}