Qualifying weekend in Slovakia for the men’s and women’s national teams: two places up for grabs. With the Brescia player there is his former teammate Cournooh
The Italian 3×3 national teams’ bid for the 2026 Europe Cup begins with this weekend’s qualifiers in Kosice, Slovakia. Italy still has the Italian Serie A MVP Amedeo Della Valle as its spearhead in the men’s team with his former Brescia teammate David Reginald Cournooh and Tiagrande Willis-Alex Tio and Alessio Donadoni completing the quartet. In the women’s team there are Anastasia Conte, Maria Miccoli, Caterina Gilli and Gina Marie Conti.
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The Azzurri will make their debut on Saturday at 6.10pm against Hungary. For the Italians, Turkey will play on Saturday at 10am, Finland at 1.40pm, then Portugal on Sunday at 10am and Croatia at 1.40pm. There are already seven qualified teams for both men and women and five places are now being assigned, two for men and two for women at the Kosice tournament. Among the men, the ten teams (Slovakia, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Hungary, Turkey, Croatia, Portugal, Georgia and Finland) are divided into four round-robin groups, the winners advance to the quarter-finals and the winners of the semi-finals qualify for the Europe Cup. Among the women, the ten teams (Slovakia, Italy, Hungary, Turkey, Portugal, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Georgia and Finland) are divided into two round-robin groups, which wins each group and qualifies for the final phase of the Europe Cup.