The selection of Mexico will visit this Thursday, February 23, at 7:10 p.m., in Medellín, the Colombian Basketball Team in a match for the Americas qualifier that will be decisive in their aspiration to qualify for the Basketball World Cup, which will be held from August 25 to September 10, 2023, in Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines.
If the Aztec representative, who is risking all his chances in the sixth and last window, wants to attend the orbital appointment, which he did not attend in 2019, he is obliged to beat Colombia and Uruguay on Sunday; both duels away.
With six games won and four lost, the Mexicans occupy fourth place in Group F of the Americas playoffs with 16 points. And if they want to depend on themselves, they must finish in third place, otherwise they will have to wait to be the best fourth place in the qualifiers.
For those led by Omar Quintero, the qualifying scenario was complicated by the 102-56 defeat on November 14 in Chihuahua against Brazil
who took advantage of the lack of aim and the losses of the premises.
At the commitment with the Colombian Basketball Team at the Iván Bedout Coliseum in Medellín, Mexico arrives with a base of 14 players, including captain Gabriel Girón Jr., former NBA basketball player Jorge Gutiérrez, Paul Stoll and Francisco ‘Pako’ Cruz , leaders of the Tri for several years, as well as young people like Gael Bonilla and Víctor Valdés.
“These are the most important 80 minutes of our lives, we can change the course of basketball in Mexico. There will be two finals,” said coach Quintero, who hopes to win in Colombia and Uruguay for his country to attend the top event of the basketball for the second time in 50 years.
On August 25, the Mexicans were surprised by Colombia, who managed to take a 20-point advantage, but recovered with a brilliant Braian Angolawho will also be in Medellín, and got a 93-89 victory on his visit.
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The motivations of the Colombian Basketball Team, last in Group F and with no chance of qualifying for the World Cup, are different in the last window. They will go for two wins at home, the last one will be on Sunday against Puerto Rico, with the purpose of staying in the top 10 of the Americas ranking, thinking of a historic playoff to the Olympic Games.
Before La Tri, the coffee growers will have important absences such as Hansel Atencia, Tonny Trocha and Jaime Echenique, and Juan Diego Tello, the Colombian team’s top reference, is between cottons, after suffering a blow to his left knee during a game with his team Libertadores de México in the Champions League Americas.
In the other matches in zone F, Brazil will face Puerto Rico and Uruguay will face the United States. For Group E will be the matches Venezuela-Bahamas, Argentina-Canada and Panama-Dominican Republic.
