Under strict biosecurity measures to avoid the stalking of COVID-19, 15 members and three executives of the Cuban basketball team, men’s branch, train in the Giraldo Córdova Cardín room, whose goal is difficult to fight for the classification in the FIBA tournament America, which begins at the end of June in El Salvador, and confers places for the next World Cup.
The technical director of the shortlisted, José Ramírez Paz, told the Invasor newspaper that both coaches and players are doing well and working according to plan, after the PCR test was performed on each of them.
The seasoned trainer said that the Creole cast will have in their favor the incorporation of several athletes who fulfill commitments outside of Cuba, among them, Javier Jústiz from Santiago, who competes with Casademont Zaragoza and Jasiel Rivero from Havana at San Pablo Burgos, both in the Endesa League of Spain.
In the same way, Yoenky Mencía and Pedro Bombino from Avilan will do it, hired in Argentina; Ricardo García, recently arrived from Japan; Osmel Oliva, present in the Salvadoran league; Karel Guzmán, with performance in Romania, and Yorman Polás, in Germany.
According to the technician, the preliminary list is subject to any variation, depending on the specific situations of the athletes, hence the importance of the work they do in Ciego de Ávila so that the boys who are trained here are suitable for the sake of rigorous commitment.
Costa Rica, El Salvador and the Bahamas will be Cuba’s first rivals. The first two of the group will proceed to the next phase.
The best performance of a Cuban basketball team was at the Munich Olympiad in 72, when they beat (66-65) the whole of Italy and obtained the bronze medal, until now, the only one in these struggles.
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