Raul Neto, Marcelinho Huertas spearhead Brazil's preliminary OQT roster / News - Basketnews.com

After a serious injury that essentially cost him last year's World Cup and the 2023-24 season with Fenerbahce, Raul Neto was included in Brazil's preliminary roster for the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Latvia.

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The qualifying tournaments for the Olympic Games will be held from July 2 to 7, and the Brazilian basketball team was among the first to announce a wider list of 17 players, from which 12 will be selected by coach Aleksandar Petrovic.

Raul Neto

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The Croatian tactician decided to invite former Chicago Bulls big man Christiano Felicio, and Fenerbahce point guard Raul Neto, for whom this will be the first official tournament after a serious knee injury he suffered in August 2023 during the World Cup.

Marcelinho Huertas, 40, will once again be an indispensable part of the Brazilian national team, whose coaching staff includes the former NBA champion Tiago Splitter. Partizan's Bruno Caboclo and Crvena Zvezda's Jago dos Santos are also included.

The Brazilians are in Group B of the qualification tournament in Riga, along with Cameroon and Montenegro. The two best-placed teams will go to the semi-finals, where they will face the group that hosts Latvia, Georgia and the Philippines.

Brazil's full roster

Marcelinho Huertas (Lenovo Tenerife) Raulzinho Neto (Fenerbahce) Jago dos Santos (Red Star) Elinho Corazza (Corinthians) Alexey Borges (Krailsheim Merlins) Georginho De Paula (Ulm) Didi Luzada (Flamengo) Vitor Benite (Palencia) Leonardo Meindl (Alvark Tokyo) Jui Deodato (Flamengo) Gabriel Zhao (Flamengo) Bruno Caboclo (Partizan MozzartBet) Jui Santos (Golden State Warriors) Tim Soares (Nagoya Diamond Dolphins) Lucas Dias (Sessi Franco) Joao Marcelo (without a club) Cristiano Felicio (Granada). Support BasketNews so we could make even better content.