The Argentine basketball team will begin the formal stage of his tour of Europe this Tuesday when he faces a team from the Federation of Catalonia from 15:30 in the Nou Congost pavilion, in the town of Manresa, and with streaming via the application Basketball Pass.
The friendly is the first of several facing the Continental Olympic pre-qualifier to be played in Santiago del Estero from August 14 to 20. The team led by Pablo Prigioni from Cordoba is carrying out a different preparation, having failed to qualify for the World Cup that will be played in Indonesia-Japan-Philippines, starting on August 25.
That unexpected defeat last February against the Dominican Republic (75-79) in Mar del Plata left the Albiceleste team without a World Cup and excessively complicating the qualification to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
To get to Paris without playing the World Cup, the National Team must first win the Pre-qualifier in Santiago del Estero to later access an intercontinental Pre-Olympica contest that will grant the winner the precious Olympic ticket.
with base Facundo Campazzo (brand new incorporation of Real Madrid) as a great figure, the National Team has been preparing in Spain for 10 days. The squad is completed with the bases Luca Vildoza (Panathinaikos from Greece) and Juan Ignacio Marcos (Girona from Spain); the escorts Carlos Delfino (Libertas Pesaro from Italy), Máximo Fjellerup (Girona from Spain), Lucio Redivo (Cividale from Italy) and Gonzalo Corbalán (Burgos from Spain); the eaves Patrick Garino (without club) and Nicholas Brussino (Gran Canaria from Spain; wings Tomás Chapero (Huesca from Spain), Santiago Trouet (University of San Diego, USA) and Gonzalo Bressán (without a club); and pivots Juan Francisco Fernández (Río Breogán from Spain), Francisco Cáffaro (University of Santa Clara, USA) and Lee Aaliya (without a club), with great performance in the last Under 19 World Cup.
Notable absences include Nicolás Laprovíttola (Barcelona), Leandro Bolmaro (Bayern Munich), Marcos Delía (Udiné) and Gabriel Deck (Real Madrid)who continues to recover from a ligament injury in his left knee.
As for the rival of this Tuesday, Catalonia will not finally have the point guard of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Ricky Rubio, availablewho did not receive authorization from the NBA franchise to say present.
After the game, the Selection will return to the city of Alicante, where the preparation began, and On Tuesday, August 1, he will face another trial with his partner from Venezuela.qualified for the World Cup and directed by Buenos Aires coach Fernando Duró (former Comodoro Rivadavia Gymnastics and La Banda Olympic).
On Friday the 4th and Saturday the 5th the series of friendlies will continue facing the Czech Republic and Belgiumrespectively, both in the Czech city of Brno.
The debut in the Olympic Prequalifier will be on Monday, August 14 against Panama, starting at 10:10 p.m., at the Ciudad stadium in the provincial capital. In the same scenario, on Wednesday the 16th but at 9:10 p.m., the opponent will be the Bahamas, for the second date of the group. And the qualifying stage will close on Thursday the 17th, at the Vicente Rosales de La Banda stadium, in a match against Cuba starting at 10:10 p.m.