{"id":452176,"date":"2025-07-19T20:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=452176"},"modified":"2025-07-19T20:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:00:37","slug":"italy-u20-stuns-serbia-will-play-for-european-gold-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/italy-u20-stuns-serbia-will-play-for-european-gold-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy U20 Stuns Serbia, Will Play for European Gold on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy\u2019s U20 men\u2019s national team has reached the final of the FIBA U20 European Championship after defeating Serbia 85-78 in the semifinals. On Sunday, July 20, coach Alessandro Rossi\u2019s squad will face either France or Lithuania for the gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a remarkable achievement for a team that has battled through injuries but displayed outstanding cohesion, resilience, and determination throughout the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The championship game will be played in Heraklion (Crete) at 7:30 PM Italian time and will be streamed live on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FIBA\">FIBA YouTube channel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This marks Italy\u2019s first appearance in a U20 European final since <strong>2013<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Italy \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 vs Serbia \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf8 | Semi-Finals | Highlights | FIBA U20 EuroBasket 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BzeYuK9HF9I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, July 20, coach Alessandro Rossi\u2019s squad will face either France or Lithuania for the gold medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":452169,"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":[98,131,478],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-452176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-italbasket","category-under-20","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/italia-under-20-europeo-finale.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452176","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452176"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=452176"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=452176"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=452176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}