{"id":429799,"date":"2025-02-23T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=429799"},"modified":"2025-02-23T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T21:15:09","slug":"smallest-nation-at-eurobasket-iceland-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/smallest-nation-at-eurobasket-iceland-are-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Smallest nation at EuroBasket: Iceland are back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"911\" data-end=\"1404\">After missing <strong data-start=\"925\" data-end=\"944\">EuroBasket 2022<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"946\" data-end=\"957\">Iceland<\/strong> is back in the tournament, finishing the qualifiers with a <strong data-start=\"1017\" data-end=\"1031\">3-3 record<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"911\" data-end=\"1404\">They sealed their return with a <strong data-start=\"1065\" data-end=\"1093\">crucial win over T\u00fcrkiye<\/strong>, bouncing back from earlier struggles. The team is once again led by <strong data-start=\"1163\" data-end=\"1205\">Hlinason, Hermannsson, and Fridriksson<\/strong>, with young talents like <strong data-start=\"1231\" data-end=\"1262\">Henningsson and Thrastarson<\/strong> emerging.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"911\" data-end=\"1404\">In <strong data-start=\"1276\" data-end=\"1293\">2015 and 2017<\/strong>, Iceland went winless, but this time, they aim to make history and claim their first <strong data-start=\"1379\" data-end=\"1401\">EuroBasket victory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">THE VIKINGS ARE COMING! \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<p>ICELAND ARE HEADING TO <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EUROBASKET?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EUROBASKET<\/a> 2025! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ICU4w4PuiK\">pic.twitter.com\/ICU4w4PuiK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroBasket\/status\/1893768599199756537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tournament\u2019s smallest nation secures its third-ever qualification<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":429800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[98,56],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-429799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-islanda"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/GkgBWs-WYAAK1x-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429799"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=429799"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=429799"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=429799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}