Agustín “Pipi” Barreiro continues his irresistible rise in world-class basketball. The current player of Gymnastics and Fencing by Comodoro Rivadavia was summoned by the coach Nestor “Che” Garcia to be part of the Argentine National Team that is preparing to face Paraguay in two matches on November 26 and 27 in matches valid for the qualification to the world championship organized by FIBA that will take place in 2023 in Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines.
The 22-year-old player from Cañuelas is one of the 17 preselected by García for the matches with the Guarani team and this summons is reached as a result of the great performance exhibited in the National League.
Versatile in his game, with a great rebounding capacity and ease of reaching the goal in different ways, Barreiro was one of the figures in the last Super 20 tournament of the Vernacular League, where with Gimnasia de Comodoro he became a finalist in the contest. After his European experience in ZentroBasket from Madrid, the Cañuelense forward showed in his re-entry to the National League of a great evolution in his game being decisive for his team, which was worth this call to the National Team.
Having started in the training divisions of Cañuelas Fútbol Club, “Pipi” later became Boca Juniors, club with which he debuted in the National League to later review in Hispanic from Santa Cruz where he reached a high level of play. After his stay in Madrid last year, in August he returned to Argentina to put on the gymnastics jacket and quickly become a figure.
Today with the call for the Senior National Team (he had already been part of the Under 21 in the 2019 South American Championship), the Cañuelense fulfills a true dream in his sporting life. In this preselection will once again share a roster with Carlos Delfino “the last of the Mohicans” of the Golden Generation of national basketball and one of the most talented players in the history of our country. Delfino, who is 39 years old and is the current figure of Pesaro of Italy, was Olympic champion in Athens 2004 with the National Team, in addition to having enormous experience in the NBA (He played in Detroit Pistons, Toronto Raptors, Houston Rockets and Milwakee Bucks, four title-winning franchises in the best basketball in the world). After his last participation in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the talented escort returns to the National Team where he will meet Barreiro with whom he shared a squad in Boca Juniors in the passage that the “Lancha” had in 2017 through the auriazul institution .
Undoubtedly, the presence of Delfino hierarchizes the call of Barreiro who has given samples that have just been one of the players with the greatest projection of national basketball, also enjoying a great presence in the National League
Leonardo Garavaglia.
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