Argentino de Junín will start a new league illusion next Wednesday, August 10. For that day the players were summoned to El Fortín de las Morochas where the formal presentation of the season will be made.
Juninense coach Eduardo Japez will be in charge of the Turkish professional team and the players Juan Cangelosi, Jonatan Slider and Enzo Filippetti continue in the club from last season.
Favio Vieta Stechina, Jeremías Sandrini, Joaquín Ríos and Lautaro Mare arrive as reinforcements. It remains to be seen who the foreigners will be and perhaps it could be only one and the entity would hire a national pivot.
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After holding a new Ordinary General Assembly of the Association of Clubs (AdC), the representatives of the competition and the Department of Competitions endorsed the game format and the dates that the next season will have.
The Argentine clubs of Junín, Atenas de Córdoba, Boca Juniors, Ferro Carril Oeste, Gimnasia y Esgrima de Comodoro Rivadavia, Instituto de Córdoba, Obras Sanitarias, Olímpico de La Banda, Peñarol participated in this meeting, which took place virtually. from Mar del Plata, Platense, Quimsa from Santiago del Estero, Riachuelo from La Rioja and Unión from Santa Fe.
In this order, it was approved that the 2022/23 season of the National League that will start on October 5, with a total of 38 matches regular phase. The first round will be played until the end of December (19 games per team), entering the break for the end of the year holidays starting on December 23. The 4 best teams of said first stage will play the Super 20 Cup of the League, which will take place from January 6 to 8 and after the break.
Then, until the end of March, the second round will take place to complete the 38 games (with the remaining 19 games). This regular series is scheduled to end on March 31. The best 12 classified teams of the Regular Phase will access the postseason, with stages of Reclassification, quarterfinals, semifinals and finals. The season is expected to end at the end of May.
In the same way that happened in the last seasons, the 4 best teams in the table will directly access the quarterfinals, while the rest of the classified will play the Reclassification (from 5th to 12th place). All instances of playoffs will be played to the best of 5 games, in a stage that will include the months of April and May until the season champion is known.
Another aspect to be detailed will be the Super League Cup, to be held between Instituto (champion of the last Super 20) and Quimsa (finalist of the recently completed season) and which has a stipulated date to be played on December 22, prior to recess. .
It should be remembered that for the preparation of the calendar, different sporting events outside of the La Liga competition were taken into account, such as the FIBA Windows in November and February, the Basketball Champions League, the South American League and the FIBA World Cup 2023.
A Cuban in Comodoro
Gymnastics confirmed the arrival of Marcos Chacón Tirado, foreign youth from Capitalinos de La Habana; tab that will be added to the Development League and National League teams.
The 19-year-old point guard, born in the Cuban capital, will join Verde in the coming weeks to start the preseason together with the professional squad led by Martín Villagrán.
The 1.94-meter-tall young man has solid experience in basketball in his country, added to the international contact he acquired in each call with the senior squad of the Cuban National Team.
New foreigner in Comu
Communications closed a new file for the 2022/23 season of the National Basketball League. This is Anthony Lee. a pivot of 31 years and 2.06 tall who comes from military in Greek basketball. He previously played in Spain.
Lee born in Orlando (United States) on May 24, 1991 is an insider who will give Comu’s painting experience and strength. He comes from playing for PAOK in Greece, Heba A1 where he averaged 3.3 points and 3 rebounds. He previously played in the Liga 2 of Spain at Almanza where he averaged 5 points and 4 rebounds.
It has passed through Austria, Estonia, Slovenia, Israel, Greece, Lithuania and Turkey. He trained at Temple University in Philadelphia, with which he played for three seasons in the NCAA with the Temple Owls from 2011 to 2014. In 2014, he would enter the Ohio State University, to play the 2014-15 season in the NCAA with the Ohio State Buckeyes.
He made his professional debut in Austria for BSC Raiffeisen Panthers Fürstenfeld of the Admiral Basketball Bundesliga, during the 2015-16 season.
Ponce is still in Union
This Thursday at noon, Unión de Santa Fe announced that Juan Francisco Ponce will continue as coach of the first team for the 2022/23 season of the National League. The club is already working on assembling its squad together with manager Hernán Tettamanti. In this way, they bet on the project that has been growing for ten years with two promotions and consolidation in the highest category.
Ponce arrived at Tatengue at the beginning of 2014, and after spending several seasons as an assistant and interim he ended up taking the position of main DT since October 2019.
With these developments, now will be the time to put together both the coaching staff that will accompany Ponce as well as the squad of players that he will present in this new season of the League, between officializations and incorporations that the club anticipates.
Pinero in Corrientes
Facundo Piñero is another of the names that joins the new outfit of the Corrientes Regatta Club for the 2022/23 season of the highest category of Argentine basketball. The intern will be playing his second consecutive campaign in the Corrientes team.
The Mar del Plata power forward had a great performance in the 2021/22 National League with the Miter Park team, leaving a good image, which made the leadership show interest in him again and thus agree on his continuity. Piñero, 33, rounded off good numbers last season. He played a total of 40 games, averaging 12.2 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.7 assists in almost 30 minutes of play.
The intern will join the Tulo Rivero team once his participation in the National Professional Basketball League in Mexico is over, where he will once again wear the colors of Fuerza Regia, a team with which he was crowned champion at the end of 2021.
Faca has a past in Quilmes de Mar del Plata, San Isidro de San Francisco, La Unión de Formosa, Instituto de Córdoba and San Lorenzo de Almagro, with whom he won the LNB title. In addition, internationally he also wore the shirt of Aguacateros de Michoacán, also in Mexico. In this way, Regatas continues with the assembly, and above all reinforces the painted area, where the arrival of Mogga Lado was recently confirmed, and adds to the incorporation of Alejandro Diez. In addition, Juan Pablo Arengo, Marco Giordano and Felipe Pais are confirmed.
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