BUCHAREST (FIBA EuroBasket 2017) - The board of the Romanian Basketball Federation, one of four FIBA EuroBasket 2017 co-hosts, has given the green light to the extension of the collaboration with senior national team head coach Marcel Dan Tenter until the showcase event.

The 47-year-old coach will therefore have the honour to lead Romania in their first FIBA EuroBasket Final Round in three decades, pending of course official ratification of the contract renewal.

Romania will host a EuroBasket 2017 group in Cluj-Napoca, the city where Tenter has spent the biggest part of his coaching career, as he combines his national team role with the position of UBT Cluj-Napoca head coach.

Tenter, a graduate of the FIBA Europe Coaching Certificate, assumed the reins of the Romanian national team ahead of their FIBA EuroBasket 2015 1st Qualifying Round campaign, where the yellow-blues played without star forward/center Vlad Moldoveanu and won only one of their three games.

A year later however Moldoveanu led the team's bid for a berth at FIBA EuroBasket 2015 from the 2nd Qualifying Round and Romania were within reach of their big goal up until the final gameday.

They finished second in Group F behind the unbeaten Latvia on a 4-2 record but, because of their unfavourable points differential, they fell just short of qualifying as one of the six best second-placed teams.

Romania's 30-year wait to return to a EuroBasket 2017 tournament will finally end in 2017 and their current coach belongs to a generation who can fully appreciate the significance of this occasion.

Tenter became a senior international in 1991 and retired as a player in 2008, so he was among the Romanian basketball players who never had the opportunity to play in a major event.

He started his coaching career at Cluj-Napoca as an assistant to Tab Baldwin, who is currently the Philippines national team head coach.

The Romanian tactician was promoted to head coach in 2009 and led Cluj-Napoca to the LNB league crown two years later.

In 2012, Tenter took charge of Romanian rivals Gaz Metan Mediaș and steered them to the conquest of the 2013 Romanian Cup trophy as well as the EuroChallenge Last 16.

He parted ways with Medias shortly after however and, following a short stint at the helm of Hungarian side Alba Fehérvár, he returned to Cluj-Napoca in the summer of 2014.