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Belgium was without its best player of Euro 2011 28.08.2011

Belgian national team in basketball for men left without one of their best players for the European Championships in Lithuania, which started on Wednesday.

Axel Herve a severe knee injury in the final inspection team match at 44:74 with the defeat of France. Belgium rivals Bulgaria in Group E of Evroshampionata. It is not yet clear how long Herve will be absent from the game and whether you will need to undergo surgery.

"I'm sorry for him. It is a major European basketball. I do as a coach and athlete to be happy about an injury. But otherwise inevitable when a leading opponent of the player will not play, that's fine," said head coach today Bulgaria Rosen Barchovski.

In place of Herve, which bears the Spanish team Bilbao, but a former teammate of Philip Videnov Real (Madrid), will be occupied by Didier Mbenga.