Kosovo is familiar with opponents in “Kina 2019” (Photo)

These are opponents of Kosovo's basketball representative in the first round of European preliminaries for the world “Kina 2019”. This was learned today in the lot that was cast in Munich, Germany.

For Kosovo, which is only in its second qualifications, great success is its own performance in this competition. In the first round, the preliminary has arrived, ranking second in pre-qualification, after Estonia, but before Macedonia.

Kosovo, with home victories over Macedonia and Estonia, has secured six very strong matches, three of them at home. The first match is played in November, while then it plays in February of next year and in June.

Kosovo last year played in qualifications for “Eurobasket 2017” and lost all six matches. Among other things, he lost two meetings from Slovenia. This is not the only connection to Slovenia. For Slovenia, Erjon Kastrati and Guzim Morina have played since this summer, joined Kosovo. Kastrati has played for young Slovenia and has been included several times in the expanded lists of representative A, while Morina last year played for representative A, among other things, towards Kosovo.

The FBK paid 70 thousand euros to Slovenians to have them in Kosovo representatives.

Kosovo has “history” as well as Poland. Kosovo's best basketball player, Captain Dardan Berisha, has played for Poland for a long time. This representative left when Kosovo was admitted to FIBA.