In his debut with the Argentine National Team, the basketball player from Piquense, Santiago Cabodevilla, played the South American U15 final against Brazil on Saturday night and despite falling 72-67 at the Obras Sanitarias stadium, Martín Villagrán’s team finished in the second step of the podium with 4 victories and a single defeat.
Cabodevilla (15 years old), scored 8 points in the final, collected 5 rebounds, gave an assist in 16:29 minutes of play at the stadium located in the Nuñez neighborhood of the Federal Capital.
The game was won by Argentina after the first 3 quarters, but with 5 minutes to go there were 60 equals and there the Brazilian players achieved a better connection both offensively and defensively to win and thus retain the title won in Montevideo ago. 4 years. The reference in the “Canarinha” was the point guard Matheus Monteiro, MVP of the tournament.
“It was something that I dreamed of since I was little, I think that everyone dreams of it. I had a best friend with whom we always dreamed of being in the Pampean National Team and later in Argentina, but we said it jokingly; and I was lucky because in the field of development I did very well”, Cabodevilla highlighted to Infopico.com.
“Playing with the national team, how crazy and there, in the locker room, seeing the shirt that said “Cabodevilla”, it was a moment that marked me and it will stay with me forever,” he added after playing all the games: winning the group ” B” against Bolivia, Ecuador and Uruguay, and then the semis against Paraguay.
-How is the group?
-Luckily, a very united group was created and I think it is essential. There are 8 of us who did all the campuses, who were locked up for more or less a month and a half. I see it in other countries that there are little groups of four and here we are all 12 together: we are going to drink mate and we all go.
This tournament meant the official debut of Santiago with the National Team, to which the man from Piqué highlighted the style of play: “we always give one more pass so as not to depend on anyone and I like that, rotating the bench a lot and allowing everyone to play . It makes it more fun to play like that than to get 30 points.”
-Was there an extra requirement for being local, how did they take it, what did they tell you?
-The main thing they told me is that it is a beautiful tournament, that not many can reach it, that it is only the 12 best in Argentina, that we always enjoy every moment with intensity and respecting what Argentina is, for example, what it is to bear the name in the shirt and not to go doing anything on the street, is another responsibility
Synthesis
Argentina U15: Juan Arias (13), James Cabodevilla (8), Thomas Scola (5), Joaquin Sarmiento (2), Gino Ciorciari (-), Matthias Dominé (3), Martin Torriani (11), James Guasco (-) and Philip Minzer (10), Maxim Liscovsky (-), Fidel Cifunetes Rotta (-), Ivan Pratto (15). DT: Martin Villagran.
Partial: 20 – 15; 20 – 23 (40 – 38); 13 – 14 (53 – 52); 14 – 20 (67 – 72)
