Eurobasket 2009 Final Qualifying Round

Ahead of Europe's continental basketball championship, which will begin September 7th, 6 teams will fight for the final spot in the tournament. Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Belgium will make up Group A, and Italy, France, and Finland will be in Group B of the qualifying mini-tournament. The group stage, beginning August 5th, will consist of each side meeting the others in their group twice. After that, the top team in each group will progress to the final.

Here are the rosters for the six teams in the final qualifying round, which will start August 5th:

Portugal:

Jorge Coelho
Nuno Cortez
Jose Costa
Paulo Cunha
Filipe da Silva
Fernando José Da Silva Sousa
Elvis Evora
Mário-Gil Fernandes
João Figueiredo
David Gomes
Joao Gomes
Marco Goncalves
Mário Gonçalves
Fábio Lima
Diogo Matos Carreira
Miguel Minhava
Miguel Miranda
Rui Mota
Joao Reveles
Joao Santos
José Silva

Bosnia:
Kenan Bajramovic
Edin Bavcic
Nihad Dedovic
Henry Domercant
Bremer Ernest Lenell
Nemanja Gordic
Miralem Halilovic
Jasmin Hukic
Goran Ikonic
Ermin Jazvin
Zlatko Jovanovic
Elmedin Kikanovic
Milan Milosevic
Aleksej Nesovic
Ivan Opacak
Vedran Princ
Esmir Rizvic
Oliver Stevic
Mirza Teletovic
Mujo Tuljkovic
Sasa Vasiljevic

Belgium:
Christophe Beghin
Sébastien Bellin
Lionel Bosco
Piet Hubert De Bel
Maxime De Zeeuw
Thomas Dreesen
Yannick Driesen
Axel Hervelle
Dimitri Lauwers
Aleksander Lichodzijewski
Domien Loubry
Sacha Massot
Ilunga Mbenga
Roel Moors
Guy Muya
Kristof Cecile A. Ongenaet
Randy Oveneke
Thomas Van Den Spiegel
Jef Van Der Jonckheyd
Sam Van Rossom

France:
Alexis Ajinca
Nicolas Batum
Rodrigue Beaubois
Yannick Bokolo
Aldo Curti
Nando De Colo
Mamoutou Diarra
Boris Diaw
Yakhouba Diawara
Antoine Diot
Laurent Foirest
Mickael Gelabale
Joseph Gomis
Dounia Issa
Alain Koffi
Claude Marquis
Adrien Moerman
Tony Parker
Johan Petro
Florent Pietrus
Mickael Pietrus
Ali Traore
Ronny Turiaf
Ludovic Vaty

Italy:
Valerio Amoroso
Pietro Aradori
Andrea Bargnani
Marco Belinelli
Massimo Bulleri
Daniele Cinciarini
Alessandro Cittadini
Andrea Crosariol
Marco Cusin
Luigi Da Tome
Giacomo Galanda
Luca Garri
Jacopo Giachetti
Angelo Gigli
Daniel Lorenzo Hackett
Stefano Mancinelli
Marco Mordente
Giuseppe Poeta
Tomas Ress
Matteo Soragna
Valerio Spinelli
Luca Vitali

Finland:
Samuel Haanpää
Shawn Huff
Tuomas Iisalo
Mikko Koivisto
Petteri Koponen
Tuukka Kotti
Gerald Lee
Sami Lehtoranta
Ville Mäkäläinen
Vesa Mäkäläinen
Jukka Matinen
Hanno Möttölä
Kimmo Muurinen
Antti Nikkilä
Teemu Rannikko
Juha Sten
Petri Virtanen
Ilkka Vuori

Clearly...er, probably clearly, France and Italy have the most star-laden squads from this round. France are likely the favorites, but then they were never supposed to have to take this route, as most would have considered them locks to get through the previous qualifying round. With so few games to play, there is little margin for error.