Jakub Šiřina (born 21 November 1987) is a Czech

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

player for

BK Opava BK Opava is a Czech professional basketball club based in the historical city of Opava. The club was founded in 1945 and currently plays in the NBL. The club has won the Czech National Basketball League four times – most recently in the 2002– ...

of the Czech Republic National Basketball League (NBL) and the Czech Republic national team.

National team career

Šiřina represented the Czech Republic at the

EuroBasket EuroBasket, also commonly referred to as the European Basketball Championship, is the main international basketball competition that is contested quadrennially, by the senior men's national teams that are governed by FIBA Europe, which is the E ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

and

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

. He was also chosen to play for the team at the

2019 FIBA World Cup The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the 18th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men's national basketball teams, held from 31 August to 15 September 2019. The tournament was hosted in China and was rescheduled from 2018 to 2019, b ...

.2019 FIBA World Cup profile
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1987 births Living people Czech men's basketball players Point guards Sportspeople from Ostrava BK Opava players BK NH Ostrava players 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup players Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic basketball players for the Czech Republic 21st-century Czech sportsmen {{CzechRepublic-basketball-bio-stub