Drafting.- With all the corresponding health protocols due to the covid-19 pandemic, the Mexican basketball team set out on Wednesday for Indianapolis, United States, where it will face the second qualifying window of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) heading to AmeriCup 2022.
In the event that will take place from November 25 to December 1, the Mexican team, led by Spaniard Francisco Olmos, and which is located in Group D, will have two vibrant duels at the Indiana Convention Center against their peers. of Puerto Rico and the United States, scheduled for the 29th and 30th of this month, respectively, a headquarters that will become a security bubble to avoid possible infections by coronavirus, a measure that the National Basketball Association (NBA) also made in sometime in the United States, to safeguard the integrity of the players.
La selección nacional que viajó a suelo estadounidense se encuentra conformada por Paul Stoll, Kohl Meyer, Omar de Haro, José Estrada, Eduardo Girón, Gabriel Girón, Lucas Martínez, Fabián Jaimes, Irwin Avalos, Edgar Garibay, Israel Gutiérrez y Alejandro Reyna.
“We are living in a very complicated time, it has been a very difficult time, it has been very difficult to do the preselection, the players are out due to the Covid-19 issue they cannot come, the situation of Juan Toscano is that right now the NBA union he does not let the players play, he was the first who wanted to take that step together with me, well, we are going to try to make the best group ”, said coach Paco Olmos a few days ago.
“It will be complicated, little time of work will be very important the attitude of the players that we have and that they take that step forward because there is no greater than representing a country, but obviously, there will be two selective teams in front, the In the case of Puerto Rico, which is in the middle of the bubble, which is in full competition, which is going to bring players from abroad, young and non-young Americans are going to be talented athletes, ”he explained.
