{"id":456568,"date":"2025-08-25T11:56:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=456568"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:56:53","slug":"estonia-announce-final-12-man-roster-for-eurobasket-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/estonia-announce-final-12-man-roster-for-eurobasket-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia announce final 12-man roster for EuroBasket 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"151\" data-end=\"429\"><strong data-start=\"151\" data-end=\"192\">Estonia has revealed its final roster<\/strong> for the upcoming <strong data-start=\"210\" data-end=\"234\">FIBA EuroBasket 2025<\/strong>, with <strong data-start=\"241\" data-end=\"262\">Kristian Kullamae<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"267\" data-end=\"282\">Henri Drell<\/strong> set to take on leading roles. However, the team suffered a major setback with the injury-related absence of starting center <strong data-start=\"407\" data-end=\"428\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Maik-Kalev Kotsar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"431\" data-end=\"671\">Head coach <strong data-start=\"442\" data-end=\"459\">Heiko Rannula<\/strong> now turns to <strong data-start=\"473\" data-end=\"490\">Matthias Tass<\/strong> as the lone true big man, while veterans <strong data-start=\"532\" data-end=\"552\">Siim-Sander Vene<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"554\" data-end=\"573\">Artur Konontsuk<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"579\" data-end=\"596\">Kaspar Treier<\/strong> will be crucial in supporting Estonia\u2019s bid to compete in a tough Group A.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"673\" data-end=\"909\">After a 3-2 record in preparation games, Estonia opens its campaign on <strong data-start=\"744\" data-end=\"772\">August 27 against Serbia<\/strong>, followed by matchups with Latvia, Czechia, T\u00fcrkiye, and Portugal. The pressure is on Kullamae and Drell to step up in Kotsar\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tupwnc9\">\n<div class=\"tupwncb\">\n<table class=\"tupwnca\">\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"_196da2p2\">\n<td>Henri Drell, Kregor Hermet, Janari Joesaar, Mikk Jurkatamm, Artur Konontsuk, Kristian Kullamae, Sander Raieste, Joonas Riismaa, Mart Rosenthal, Matthias Tass, Kaspar Treier, Siim-Sander Vene<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kotsar ruled out with injury, Kullamae and Drell to lead the way for Group A underdogs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":456567,"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":[51,98],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-456568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estonia","category-eurobasket"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/88c3a308-a11a-4063-9d20-807e13ca639c.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456568","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=456568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456568"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=456568"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=456568"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=456568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}