The Argentine handball team, Los Gladiadores, won the Cuatro Naciones tournament undefeated on Tuesday night, beating Cuba in the third game by a tight 27-24, winning the Caba Cup that was at stake.
Cuba was a rival that posed difficulties for the national representative led by Guillermo Milano, something that had already been envisioned 20 days ago, when in a friendly prior to this home run the Albiceleste victory was just a little more comfortable: 29-21.
In a packed House of Argentine Handball, the Argentines had to work hard to win against the Cuban team, which next week will be competing in the Central American and Caribbean Games for a place in the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile that will take place at the end of the year.
It is that Argentina came from two previous games in which it had been widely imposed, first against Puerto Rico by 47 to 13 and then against Uruguay by 32 to 18.
This Argentine team is preparing for the Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile, for which it has already qualified, looking for the first place there that will take it to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in that competition that will take place between October 20 and November 5. next.
The members of the squad that won the Four Nations in the event held in the Youth Olympic Park, in Villa Soldati, were these:
Archers: Juan Bar (Anaitasuna, Spain) and Leonel Maciel (Sporting Lisbon, Portugal)
Sides: Federico Pizarro (Cuenca, Spain), Pablo Vainstein (Benidorm, Spain), Andrés Moyano (Nava, Spain), Nicolás Bonanno (Anaitasuna, Spain) and James Parker (Zamalek, Egypt).
Power stations: Pablo Simonet (Cuenca, Spain) and Pedro Martínez (Ward College).
ends: Ignacio Pizarro (Cuenca, Spain), Francisco Lombardi (Guadalajara, Spain), Federico Fernández (San Fernando), Facundo Cangiani (Torrelavega, Spain), Ramiro Martínez (Benidorm, Spain) and Santiago Baronetto (Dorrego).
Pivots: Lucas Moscariello (Benidorm, Spain), Gastón Mouriño (free) and Gonzalo Carró Castro (Nava, Spain).
“The idea was that the boys would have these days of coexistence to integrate into the squad and that is why we will continue training together until next Friday. We knew that today’s game was going to be complicated because the Cubans have been growing. But we are doing well in handball Argentinian and that is why I want to take the opportunity to send greetings to the boys from the San Fernando club who have just won the South American Cup in Brazil”, coach Milano told TyC Sports at the end of the game.