Welcome back to the Taking The Charge Podcast. This week we have a quintet of interviews looking ahead to next week’s FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup 2022 - Jan Vide of Slovenia, Serbia’s Bogoljub Markovic, Szymon Nowicki from Poland, Petras Padegimas of Lithuania and Spaniard Izan Almansa.
Before that … let’s take a quick look around the world of basketball with the Big Three
4:00 - Story we are watching - The build-up to the FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup 2022 - friendly games just about every day and roster news right and left.
5:20 - Young player of the week - Koa Peat made the USA roster for the U17 World Cup and as a 2007-born will become the youngest player in USA history to play at a U17 World Cup - the first player to play two years younger than the competition’s generation.
6:35 - Up-coming event we are watching - The 2022 NBA Draft - it’s THE night for so many people and it’s a huge night for youth international hoops fans as well.
Before we get into the talk with the U17 World Cup interviews, we would like to give you a sneak peak of the Taking The Charge Prospects Podcast interview with Polish forward Kacper Klaczek, who is playing at Saint Joseph’s University in the United States, which is part of the paid subscription section of the TTC substack.
8:30 - Sneak previewof interview
12:55 - Jan Vide - Slovenia
16:35 - Bogoljub Markovic - Serbia
19:50 - Szymon Nowicki - Poland
22:30 - Petras Padegimas - Lithuania
24:40 - Izan Almansa - Spain
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Taking The Charge podcast: U17 WC special: Vide, Markovic, Nowicki, Padegimas, Almansa