2006 FIBA World Championship Final
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| Date | September 3, 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Saitama Super Arena, Saitama | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 18,500[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2006 FIBA World Championship Final was a basketball game between the men's national teams of Greece and the Spain that took place on September 3, 2006, at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.[1]
It was the first Final appearance for Spain, whose best achievement in the World Cup was the fourth place in 1982. Greece also made its first Final appearance, after finishing fourth in the last two tournaments.
Spain won the Final 47–70, and won its first World Cup title. Also, Spain qualified for the 2008 Olympics.
Match details
Spain had to play the Final without their star player, later to be named tournament MVP, Pau Gasol, who suffered partial fracture of his fifth metatarsal in his left foot in the Semi-final against Argentina.[2] Greece just came off a stunning victory against the United States in their Semi-final.
September 3, 2006 7:30 p.m. |
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47–70 |  Spain |
| Scoring by quarter: 12–18, 11–25, 11–11, 13–16 | ||
| Pts: Kakiouzis 17 Rebs: Kakiouzis 9 Asts: Papaloukas, Diamantidis 3 |
Pts: Garbajosa, Navarro 20 Rebs: Jiménez 11 Asts: Garbajosa, Rodríguez 4 | |
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