The national director of the area tells what he advanced in these first weeks and details what his management will be like and what he will try to achieve in order to reach primary schools, secondary schools and universities.
There are several new departments created in the Argentine Confederation and one of them, School and University Basketball, is taking the first steps. “The first thing I did was communicate with the presidents of each federation to seek information and be able to make a diagnosis about the situation of school basketball in each region. We need to know what had been done and what suggestions we can make. We also need each institution to designate a benchmark in each area to be able to address technical issues. The idea is to work as a team, in an interrelated way with all the internal actors of the CABB (Minibasquet, Female, formative, 3×3, ENEBA Adapted Basketball) and with the external actors, as different secretariats and ministries. Mine will be a direction that will have a transversal relationship. We will try to build actions with a lot of social exchange and dialogue with the parties involved “, counts Emilio Gutiérrez, the National Director of an area that will seek to be the link between the educational authorities and those who activate within the national basketball to stimulate the practice of our sport in primary schools, secondary schools and universities in the country.
“What we have to celebrate is the decision of this Board of Directors to create a direction with clear objectives. School Basketball waited almost 100 years to be focused and we must take advantage of this great opportunity that has been presented to all of us who have worked within its sphere so long ago. My idea is to connect the different work groups that are being set up in the country and we can build an absolutely Argentine program, with the cultural diversities that each region presents but with common denominators: the search for massiveness in the practices, respect for the idea inclusive and love of basketball. I spoke with many federations to be able to form basketball ecosystems, that is, to work by geographical areas, by regions, that everything flows, putting each one in its place, because the diagnoses that are made are different in each part of the country. We are going to go at a slow but sustainable pace, taking short and forceful steps, and that everyone agrees with the measures “, explains the coach -headed the national team 3×3-, teacher and sociologist who joined the parent entity with the overall objective of working on massiveness and inclusion.
The great challenge, as he clarifies to CABB pressIt will be the link between sports and educational institutions. “In this it has always failed because the club uses one language and the school another, with totally different objectives. The lines must stop being parallel in order to begin to converge. When Argentina achieved this, they did very well. Jorge Canavesi and Rubén Magnano , the two most winners of this sport in our history, were educators and also coaches “, graph. Emilio tries to rescue what has been possible to advance in this very different time that we all have to face. “This pandemic is a calamity, but you have to find the positive part. For example, it has given us time to organize ourselves and that is important because I want to do an Argentine program for Argentines, “he highlights. Finally, he points out about an actor who will be fundamental in his project. “Our priority will be to assist the grassroots coaches and yard teachers who have been working for a long time within the educational system and it is time for them to be recognized”, Gutiérrez closed. His dream is on.
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