Today, on August 27, the men's National basketball team of Ukraine will play another qualification match for the 2023 World Cup, where, on the road, they will oppose Iceland. Our team approaches this match in 5th place in the group with 1 victory in 5 matches, the Icelanders are the fourth, having won 3 out of 5 matches. As a reminder, 3 out of 6 teams of the group qualify for the final part of the world championship. The website of the Basketball Federation of Ukraine informs.

In the first match of the game window, Ukraine lost to Italy (89:97) in Riga, and the Icelanders lost to the current world champions in the Spanish city of Pamplona with a score of 57:87.

The leader of the Icelandic National team is a  bigman Tryggvi Hlinason - a 24-year-old center with a height of 215, who averages 15.6 points, 11.0 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game. It is also worth to note the guard Elvar Fridriksson, who is scoring 21.0 points per game in this selection, averaging more than 6 attacks from the arc.

Point guard Vitaly Zotov and forward Pavlo Krutous, who did not take part in the game against Italy, will play for the Ukrainian National team in this match. Due to an injury, Issuf Sanon, who stayed in Riga to recover, will not help our team, center Dmytro Skapintsev is also not in the application.

It should be noted that our team retains the chances of entering the final part of the world championship. In Ukraine, the match between Iceland and Ukraine will be broadcast live by the XSPORT TV channel. The start of the live broadcast is at 23:00 Kyiv time.

Let us remind, that the Basketball Federation of Ukraine has signed a partnership agreement with the Budinvest-Engineering company for the nearest qualification window for the 2023 Basketball World Cup.

The road construction company "Budinvest Engineering" became the title partner of the Ukrainian men's basketball team during the matches of the Ukrainian National team against Italy (August 24 in Riga) and Iceland (August 27 in Reykjavik).

"Budinvest Engineering" is also the general sponsor of BC "Prometey". For more than five years, the road construction company has been successfully building and repairing roads and is one of the leaders in the road construction market in our country. In addition to its main activity, the company supports the Armed Forces of Ukraine and develops Ukrainian sports. In particular, basketball and volleyball.