Eurobasket final will be played by two countries that did not exist 25 years ago

Slovenia declared independence on June 25, 1991 and was recognized in 1992 ... 

Serbia again became an independent state in 2006 following the dissolution of the union between Serbia and Montenegro. 

Both belonged to Yugoslavia, a state that no longer exists (notice to Spain) ... 

Both Slovenia and Serbia have fewer inhabitants than Catalunya (2 and 7.1 million , respectively). 

In 2004 Slovenia joined the European Union. He joined the euro on January 1, 2007, and the Schengen area in 2004. Already in 1993 he had joined the Council of Europe since July 2010 and is part of the OECD. 
He is a member of the UN.

Serbia can be considered to be the heir to Yugoslavia, and although his past is that of a genocidal State, is a member of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Council of Europe, whose presidency boasted in 2007 . it is one of the potential candidates for future membership of the European Union. You see, tomorrow they will play the final of Eurobasket 2017 ... A basketball sport in Europe it dominated the USSR and Yugoslavia, two federations which were dissolved ... And if we add these two countries Czechoslovakia, 23 titles (in 39) was won by countries that no longer exist ... the world, though some find it hard to understand, is changing, turning and traveling through space at 100,000 kilometers per hour ...

Polaris to cease to be ...