With the support of Pan American Silver Argentina, Las Lobas began their preparation for the Adapted Basketball South American • EconoJournal

The CeNARD in Buenos Aires will be the setting for the tournament, which will be held between November 30 and December 5, 2021. The objective will be to qualify for the Copa América 2022

With the accompaniment of Pan American Silver Argentina, Las Lobas, the Women’s Wheelchair Basketball National Team, began its preparation to represent the country in the South American, which will be played this year at the CeNARD in Buenos Aires (Centro Nacional de Alto Sports performance). With this institutional support, carried out through the Tendiendo Puentes Foundation, Pan American Silver Argentina collaborates in promoting inclusion, diversity, teamwork, dialogue, respect and self-improvement through sports.

In the Las Lobas tournament, they will face their peers from Brazil, Chile, Bolivia and Colombia for a place in the Copa América 2022. The next steps would be the World Cup, the Parapan American Games, and finally the Paralympic Games in Paris 2024.

“Adapted sport, mainly, gave me the opportunity to represent my country, which for an athlete is the maximum to which one aspires. When the opportunity presented itself, I did not hesitate, I was dying to put on my shirt and sing the anthem. But adapted sport also helped me a lot to accept myself with my disability. We are physically different from others, only that”He expressed Mariana Redi, player and reference of Las Lobas.

As for their expectations for the South American, the national team aspires to the gold medal. “We have very good chances, we are looking forward to it, and we deserve it after so much effort,” he said. Silvia Linari, team captain.

Coach Carlos Cardarelli, proud of the athletes, stressed that “Leading an adapted basketball team is the same as directing conventional basketball with the difference that they need a mechanical means to be able to play. It is a mechanical means like the one used by cycling, skateboarding. We need a wheelchair ”.

The national adapted basketball team began its preparation this week at the headquarters of the National Center for High Performance Sports (CeNARD) in Núñez, Buenos Aires. These are double shift workouts (morning and afternoon) with a workload of approximately two hours each appointment. The players called up for the South American are:

1. María Chirinos (Buenos Aires)

2. Mariana Pérez (Córdoba)

3. Liz Pare (Buenos Aires)

4. Jazmin Sallis (Buenos Aires)

5. Julieta Olmedo (Córdoba)

6. Florencia González (Corrientes)

7. Luna Diaz (Córdoba)

8. Mariana Redi (Buenos Aires)

9. Dara Muñoz (Entre Rios)

10. Silvia Linari (Sta Fe)

11. Evangelina Paiva (Buenos Aires)

12. Morena Coria (Buenos Aires)

13. Vanesa Rubiola (Buenos Aires)

14. Fernanda Pallares (Tucuman)

15. Danila Saya (Buenos Aires)

For this week of concentration will not be present due to commitments in Europe: María Chirinos and Mariana Pérez, who are playing in the Iberconsa Amfiv and Bilbao clubs, respectively.

On the shares of Pan American Silver Argentina

As part of its Inclusion and Diversity program, Pan American Silver Argentina -in addition to accompanying Las Lobas- supports the Argentine Forum for Women in Sports (FAMUD), the Pateando Límites Foundation and the Argentine Deaf Basketball Team (Los Topos), entities that express core values ​​for the company such as teamwork that enhances the strengths as a group and builds bonds of trust and long-term relationships.

To carry out the tasks of social sustainability, Pan American Silver Argentina has as fundamental pillars inclusion, diversity and the transmission of values ​​such as effort, self-improvement and teamwork, which are manifested in practice adapted basketball sport. These sports activities are promoted in the communities in which Pan American Silver Argentina operates as spaces for socialization and opportunities to share healthy habits and values ​​such as work and determination to achieve goals.

In this way, the company fosters and promotes education, health care through sports activity and development, as well as active listening and constant communication between all the actors that make up the value chain in which Pan American Silver Argentina occupies a place alongside employees, community members, suppliers, institutions and local governments.