This would be the path of the Dominican Republic prior to the FIBA ​​Basketball World Cup

Once the group that will have the Dominican national team in the upcoming World Basketball Championshipevery time the raffle of said competitionwhich, as already mentioned, will start next August in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia.

And you can’t hide that there is a high expectations this timeunlike previous editions, considering the very positive way in which they closed the qualifying stage, with important victories against Venezuela, Panama and Argentina.

Therefore, according to statements issued by the President of the Dominican Basketball Federation, Rafael Uribe in the local program ofEseTe Sports“It is planned to carry out a series of preparation matches against good-level rivals in order to face a fair of this magnitude in the best way.

Mention that it had already been confirmed that for on August 18 and 19 a couple of matches against the teams of Spain and Canadaspecifically in the city of Granadaon the occasion of anniversary of the founding of this town.

But according to the words of Uribehave also been programmed other duels before starting the world cupone of them before the European Latviaand then a couple of challenges against Puerto Ricoeven with the possibility that can be carried out each in their respective countries, although it would be something still pending to be confirmed.

Also, it is scheduled set up a match against an Asian team; remember that the first match of this world championship will be against the hostess Philippines on August 25so the Playing a match against a squad from that area would be extremely useful for the coaching staff headed by Néstor “Che” García.

After Filipinastwo days later he will have to face the difficult Italiato close the group stage with the African rival of group A, Angolaall these meetings scheduled to be held in the city ​​of Manila in the Philippines.

Finally, the boss of FEDOMBAL has delimited that A good part of the team’s concentration would be in Europe, specifically in Spain and Latviaway to go acclimatizing the players due to the time difference that exists in Asian territory, so that it does not affect the physical issue and performance of the same; days prior to the tournament, they would already have defined the twelve elements that will represent the country in the 19th edition of the World Cup of the discipline.