{"id":24421,"date":"2003-09-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/saffar-burstein-beat-slovenia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:14:27","slug":"saffar-burstein-beat-slovenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/saffar-burstein-beat-slovenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Saffar &#038; Burstein beat Slovenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Israel National Team reached the quarter finals of the European Championship after a dramatic win in Lulea vs Slovenia 78-76.<BR> Israel were 17 pts down in the first quarter but a fighting display brought them back into the game and they even led 66-56 in the final quarter. But fatigue was a main factor and Slovenia ran 14-0 and with a minute to go led 75-73. A three pointer by captain Yoav Saffar 38 seconds from time and a winning basket by Tal Burstein with 2.6 seconds to go, assured the victory and a meeting with Spain on Thursday (19:00) in Stockholm.<BR> Burstein had 13 pts, 2 rbds &#038; 2 assists. Derrick Sharp scored 9 pts. Saffar 8 pts, 5 rbds &#038; 4 assists ans Gur Shelef 3 pts. Yaniv Green led Israel with 14 pts &#038; 10 rbds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-24421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493061,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24421\/revisions\/493061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24421"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=24421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}