As long as there is no national coaching program that takes advantage of the simple but extensive territorial structure that basketball has always had in our country, the names of Paul Stoll, Jorge Gutiérrez, Víctor Álvarez, Orlando Méndez, Francisco Cruz, Gabriel Girón, Víctor Valdés , Gael Bonilla, Fabián Jaimes, Jonatan Machado, Héctor Hernández, Daniel Amigo, Israel Gutiérrez and Joshua Ibarra, will continue without appearing on the covers and the stellar sports sections where they claim a place.
Led by Omar Quintero, our national teams qualified for the World Cup in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia that will be played between August 25 and September 10, 2023.
In Mexico, there are thousands of basketball courts, the most beloved are municipal and are in the zocalito of many towns next to the Church, the kiosk, the ice cream parlor, the ahuehuete and the park benches.
For decades, basketball has coexisted with citizens who have looked at it as an option for leisure, accompaniment and entertainment, but never as a high performance sport more attached to discipline, technique and training.
If for ten basketball courts scattered throughout the national territory we had a coach who attended and taught the principles of the game, Mexico would be one of the great powers of the continent.
There is a huge contradiction in Mexican basketball: there are more courts than coaches and more fans than players; basketball is liked and played, but not practiced.
One fine day, the politicians on duty decided that by filling Mexico with concrete slabs and a basket on each side, basketball players would grow in pots. In fact, many children, young people, and neighbors approached them, but none of them had a teacher, monitor, or coach nearby. able to develop their abilities.
In recent days, our National Team beat Colombia in Medellín and Uruguay in Montevideo, and although the news went unnoticed, it was great news. How many of these players started their careers playing on those village courts and how many more could leave if all those courts were turned into small training centers.
Jose Ramon Fernandez Gutierrez de Quevedo
