{"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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[377,379,484],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-452176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-italbasket","category-under-20-en","typology-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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