Argentina will face Australia, Nigeria and the United States on July 10-13. There will also be a friendly room to confirm. The details. On the 17th he will fly to Tokyo.
The preparation for Tokyo will have a single venue: Las Vegas. After considering various options, taking into account this context of pandemic, the decision was made to do it in this way, to minimize the risks. The national delegation will travel on Saturday 26 of this month to work there until July 16. From the 27th to the 6th it will be a previous one managed by the CAB and from the 7th it will be entered into the USA Basketball bubble, the American federation that invited our National Team and that organizes the tournament that will be played in the city of the game. The three games of the homer will be against Australia, Nigeria and the United States.
The duel against the oceanic will be on Saturday the 10th, while the meeting with the Africans will be played on the 12th and the expected appointment against the locals will be on the 13. All matches will be played at the MGM Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas, with an audience . There would be one more friendly fourth, prior to the match with Australia, with a rival yet to be confirmed, possibly Nigeria. The Arentina delegation
On July 17, meanwhile, Argentina will fly to Japan to enter the Olympic village on the 18th to perform the final part of the preliminary until the debut, on the 26th, against the winner of the Pre-Olympic that will be played in Kaunas (Lithuania). On the 29th he will face Spain, in the reissue of the World Cup final two years ago, and will close the first phase on August 1 against Julio Lamas’ Japan.
“We were lucky and, at the same time, we did the merits to get an organization like USA Basketball to extend this invitation to us”, analyzed Sergio Hernández. “In such a complicated context there is nothing better than this. No country can give you superior conditions to train. We are considering other options and we regret not being able to do part of the preparation in our country, as has always been our priority, but this pandemic and the summary that the international calendar has been for this pandemic forces us to limit everything “, analyzed the Argentine coach.
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