After the football World Cup, Qatar is also preparing for the Basketball World Cup, and Montenegro will be part of the World Basketball Championship on the Arabian Peninsula for the third time in a row.
On that path, Boško Radović's men will first have to be among the top three in their group with Greece, Portugal and the selection from the pre-qualifications, it was announced after today's draw in Doha.
If our national team continues the qualifications, in the second round they will fight for a ticket to Qatar against the three best teams from the group, which includes Spain, Georgia and two teams that will arrive from the pre-qualifications.
When it comes to potential rivals from the pre-qualifications in the first phase, possible duels between Montenegro and the winner of the group that includes North Macedonia, Romania and Hungary are possible.
Spain and Georgia, in the group that Montenegro will face in the decisive phase, await their rivals from the pre-qualifications - the winner of the group containing Slovakia, Switzerland and Ukraine, as well as the runner-up from the group containing Denmark, Norway and Croatia.
Montenegro was waiting for its rivals from the third pot, and since the draw was semi-automatic, it was clear even before the balls were drawn that our national team would not be able to play against teams from the first, fourth, fifth and eighth pots in the first phase.
In the first round of qualifications, there will be eight groups of four teams, and in the second phase, 24 teams will be placed in four groups of six teams - the top three from each will qualify for the World Basketball Championship.
Qualifications begin on November 24th of this year.
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