Jujuy is a fundamental piece in the structure of FFBRA

Mariani’s passion for women’s basketball began when her daughter was 5 years old, when she took her to the court and watched her play, until she left the activity at 23 years old, although that was not an impediment to continue with this. sport.

In 2006 he began to work in the Rosario Women’s Basketball Association as a counselor and was climbing positions until he became the highest authority. In 2011 he was treasurer in FFBRA and in 2012 he was elected president until 2015. Now he was reelected for two more years, his activity was always women’s basketball, with a great passion for sports politics and leadership, that is what motivates him and makes him feel happy.

In dialogue with our media, he told details of the problem they had with the Argentine Confederation: “Until 2013, women’s basketball was in the hands of the FFBRA and we had been operating as the 25th federation, complying with all activities. Even at the end of 2012 the first final four of the national league that we had organized had been played, after that due to political, internal and managerial circumstances we were excluded, after a series of unfairly applied sanctions and without any kind of support ”.

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From there we began to walk a complicated and difficult path, because the decision of those members of the directive committee was clear and specific, to empty the FFBRA institutionally and sportively. This happened because 85% of women’s basketball in the country passed into the hands of men’s federations and they tried to carry out the discipline for six years From there we began to walk a complicated and difficult path, because the decision of those members of the directive committee was clear and specific, to empty the FFBRA institutionally and sportively. This happened because 85% of women’s basketball in the country passed into the hands of men’s federations and they tried to carry out the discipline for six years

Despite this drawback, FFBRA never stopped: “We continue working with the Associations, playing basketball, which is the main thing. The backbone of FFBRA are the players, the institutions and the leaders, to this we must add the family ”.

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Leaders have a very particular passion: “A clear example is Haydee Torres de Jujuy, a national team player at times, a current maxi basketball player, president of an Association. For us, the best that can exist is to play basketball and be recognized ”.

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They began planning activities for 2021: “We need women’s basketball to be a main activity, especially in some provinces such as Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán and Santiago del Estero, which for us are fundamental pillars of this entire project. Throughout the country, little by little we are going to return to normality, we have to work a lot, we are confident and we have a great illusion ”.

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We want to give a strong boost to mini basketball and the formative categories, we need it to come back throughout the country, that the players want to be on the court. When everything is organized we are going to start with meetings between provinces and then give priority to the categories U14, U15, U17 that are important, there is a very great potential of players We want to give a strong boost to mini basketball and the formative categories, we need it to come back throughout the country, that the players want to be on the court. When everything is organized we are going to start with meetings between provinces and then give priority to the categories U14, U15, U17 that are important, there is a very great potential of players

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“We are going to try to make basketball more participatory, to make competition exist, but to be more participatory, to try to balance the possibilities that many players who are not in Buenos Aires have and who have many conditions.”

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