Paula López González, in the Argentine national team: data and what you need to know about the Spanish promise that the CAB recruited for the U-17 Basketball World Cup

in the last tournament Maurice Revello -traditionally known as Esperanzas de Toulon-, which ended in June, the Argentine Under 20 football team led by Javier Mascherano He had several players on his team who were neither born nor trained in sports in the country, but with family roots. The names of Alejandro Garnacho, Franco and Valentín Carboni, Nicolás Paz and Luka Romero They were on everyone’s lips because the Argentine Football Association (AFA), knowing the potential of each one, seduced them to dress them in light blue and white and not to do so, for now, for other European teams. This maneuver was imitated by the Argentine Basketball Confederation (CAB) with Paula Lopez Gonzalez, a young Spanish woman who was recruited for the Women’s Under 17 World Cup that starts this Saturday in Hungary.

The CAB, from the beginning, handled the issue with secrecy. THE NATION The entity chaired by Fabián Borro was contacted in order to consult how the summons and nationalization of López González was managed.an unusual practice in Argentine basketball, and the answer was that “At the moment they will not provide more information than that published on their official channels” where, until this Friday, the player’s name only appeared on the World Cup payroll and in the deleted statement.

On the official FIBA ​​website, the young basketball player appears as part of the national team of the U-17 World Cup and participated in the previous photo session in which posed with a ball and the Argentine flag on his shoulders.

The trainer Laura Gonzalez It has eleven other players, in addition to Paula López González, who opted for a pre-list of 17 basketball players who concentrated since June 23 at the Cenard. They were left out in the last cut Gianella Espedale, Juana Barrionuevo, Clara Montañana, Stephanie Smidt Falter and Abril Ochoa.

González’s coaching staff is completed by assistants Mariano Marcos y Augustine Lukac; the physical trainer Gisela Marcos Castillo; the doctor Maria Alejandra Valdez; the kinesiologist Christian Pasut; the prop Nicholas Avedikian; and the team leader Vicente Castellano.

From the list there are six exponents who were bronze medalists at the FIBA ​​Americas U18 that took place in June at the Rock Temple of Obras Sanitarias and qualified Argentina for the 2023 U19 World Cup: Juana Amaya, Ema Baldo, Alma Bourgarel, Angelina Giacone, Dagmar Hentschel and Malena Maggi.

The national delegation arrived in Debrecen, Hungary on Wednesday, without López González, who was already in Europe completing the process for his nationalization and joined the squad at the competition venue. This Friday the squad had the official FIBA ​​photo session.

The U17 women’s national team qualified for the international competition thanks to the fourth place he achieved last year at the FIBA ​​Americas U16 that took place in Guanajuato, Mexico. Eight players remained from that squad for the World Cup: Amaya, BourgarelDelphine Cergneux, Victoria Fontana, Giacone, Hentschel Nerea Lagowski and Maggi.

Meanwhile, in Malaga, Spain, the Under 17 World Cup is taking place for the male branch and Argentina is disputing the reclassification after being eliminated in the round of 16 at the hands of Slovenia by 69-55. This Friday the albiceleste beat Japan 80-66 and in the next round of the instance to place the teams between ninth and 16th place, they face Canada or Lebanon.

The team led by Leonardo Gutiérrez competed in zone D of the first phase where he debuted with victory over Egypt 59-50 and then lost to Poland 71-48 and Australia 86-50, but qualified for the round of 16.