Two Santander players will be in the semifinals of the Professional Basketball League 2021.
They are the coach Jorge Andrés Carreño Vargas, who commanded the classification of Cimarrones del Chocó, and the owner Hansel Atencia Suárez, who was also one of the most outstanding of Titanes de Barranquilla, who is going for the five-time championship.
Although this time the team from the region, Búcaros, was eliminated in the first phase, after competing with a very young team, the name of Santander remains high, thanks to this coach and player.
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For Carreño Vargas it is his debut as a coach in the League and he does it with all the honors. He is the youngest coach of the season, but he imposes his knowledge and group management on a roster that has several experienced players.
Cimarrones left Cafeteros on the road, in the quarterfinal phase, in which they won two of the three matches, the final one with a score of 80-75.
“We want to be in the finals, that has been one of the objectives and that is why we seek to have four very good Colombian players, among them Jhon Hernández and Romario Roque, a revelation player last year. The formation of the national base, also with Eleuterio Renteria and Doel Forbes, helped us a lot and we added foreigners to them, ”said the Bumangués technical director, who is also a physical education teacher at the San Pedro Claver School.
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Hansel, for his part, is looking for his third title with Titanes, and is one of the highlights in his role as point guard, which he will now perform with the Colombian National Team in the First Window of the qualifier for the 2023 World Cup, which will be the next 26 and 27 November in Buenos Aires, Argentina, against Uruguay.
Colombia is part of Group B of the Americas along with Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.
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