Adapted basketball: Matías Méndez in the preselection to play the South American – Mar del Plata News

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The player from Mar del Plata Matias Mendez integrates the list of the Argentina wheelchair basketball preselection facing the championship South American to be held at the National Center for High Performance Sports (Cenard) from September 30 to October 13 of this year.

In the last hours the announcement was made official that the tournament that grants places for the America’s Cup 2022 from wheelchair basketball It will be held in the country in both the female and male branches.

Facing this event, the Mar del Plata player is on the list of those called up along with thirteen other players with whom they have already trained on different occasions and will do so again this weekend.

So far, the list of the selected team led by the coach Mauro Varela is made up of fourteen players, taking into account that this roster will surely will undergo modifications since some players who play in Europe have yet to join. At the moment, the players the coach has are: Guido Comparato, Franco Alessandrini, Gustavo Villafañe, Fermín Wingerter, Javier Rodríguez, Ignacio Celiz, Carlos Esteche, Rodrigo Franco Cardozo, Adrián Pérez, Iván Gómez, the man from Mar del Plata Matías Mendez, Joel Gabas, Lucas Müller and Daniel Copa.

These players train this weekend at Cedima and at the end of July they will train at Cenard. “It will be essential to continue to emphasize individual preparation of each player so that in each concentration we can find our game and add to it other tools that we will need for the tournament. We are very excited to be able to have a good tournament and very happy that it is in Argentina, and the objective that let’s go find it is the classification to the next Copa América“, Explained in conversation with the Argentine Basketball Confederation (CABB) the coach, who is outlining the twelve definitive names that will integrate the selected one.

For its part, in the female branch, the payroll of Lobas It is currently made up of Mariana Pérez, Morena Coria, Luna Belén Díaz, María Fernanda Pallares, Silvia Linari, Evangelina Paiva, Mariana Redi, Julieta Olmedo, Florencia González, Vanesa Rubiola, Liz Karina Pare, Danila Saya, Dara Muñoz, Jazmín Sallis and María Chirinos.

Regarding the South American to be developed in the country, the women’s tournament will be the first to start the action, since they will do so from September 30 to October 2, while the men’s branch begins a day later and the championship will end. October 13.

The South Americans of both branches will deliver tickets to the Copa América next year, although still the International Federation (IWBF) did not announce nor the system of competition as well as the quotas it will grant the Cenard tournament thinking about the continental event. This is because there is still no confirmation on the number of participating teams, something that would be known in the coming weeks.

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