Basketball fans will be in luck again this summer, since they will be able to see live in Salamanca the great female promises of the world with the Junior International Tournament that will be played in the Würzburg pavilion from July 2 to 6, as an excellent preparation for the World Championship of the U17 category, which will be played in the Hungarian city of Debreceni from July 9 to 17.
The poster of Salamanca International Tournament It couldn’t be better, with the champion of the last edition of the World Cup, held in 2018 in Minsk (in 2020 it had to be suspended due to covid): the United States, the second-placed team, France, the third-placed team, Australia, and the Spanish team ( which will have José Ignacio Hernández as its head this summer), who finished in sixth position.
The four participating countries they will arrive in Würzburg with all their arsenal, since from Salamanca they will go directly to Hungary. As part of the four teams, several of the players who will be international stars in the coming years can be seen in the Würzburg pavilion in July, seeing what has happened in previous editions of the tournament.
In Minsk, four years ago, young players shone who are today a reality, such as the North American Paige Bueckers, who with the University of Connecticut is breaking all historical records in the NCAA, the Malian Sika Kone, MVP of the regular phase of the Women’s League with Gran Canaria and chosen in the last WNBA draft by the New York Liberty, the Spanish Raquel Carrera or the French Iliana Rupert and Marine Fauthoux.
Previously, they had been chosen as the best player in the tournament Ezi Magbegor, Diamond De Shields or angela saviors, almost nothing. The former player of Avenida (40 points in the decisive match) was one of the components of the Spanish team, along with Maite Cazorla, María Conde and Umi Diallo, who pushed the United States to the limit to win gold 77-75 in the final, with players of the stature of an already promising Lou Samuelson, Kennedy Burke, Sabrina Ionescu or Arike Ogunbowale.
