In a meeting witnessed by the president of the Sports Institute of El Salvador and the Cossan 2023 Organizing Committee, Yamil Bukele, and the head of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder) of Cuba, Osvaldo Vento, both teams fought for the victory that leaned indistinctly towards one and the other.
The cap was decided in the final part of the fourth set, where the Cubans imposed stature and better preparation to take their second victory of the tournament, while El Salvador suffered its second setback, after losing to Puerto Rico in its debut in the tournament in another closed meeting.
The score of the four times was (17-17) (17-16) (17-17) and (21-13), and only at the end of the last quarter, the Cubans managed to get away from their rivals, which gives an idea of the disputed of the confrontation.
Before the match began, the technical director of the Cubans, Márgaro Pedroso, told Prensa Latina that the prognosis for his pupils is to be among the three medalists, and that as soon as the Centrocaribes finish they will travel to Mexico for the American Cup, from September 1 to 9. July, where they will seek to qualify for the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games and the Pre-Olympic.
In the team there is a work group in function of recovering those historical places that Cuban women’s basketball reached in the world in the 1970s and the 90s of the last century, and part of 2000, he said.
Dalia Henry, the captain of that generation and today National Basketball Commissioner, said that today we have a team of young but very talented athletes. We need to work hard and one of the important things is that they acquire competitive experience, she specified.
He said that it is a team for the future, a perspective team with an average age of 21 years, the height is not perfect but it is consistent with the sport. Our official prognosis is to reach third place but, as Cubans, we are going to fight for the top of the podium, he stressed.
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2023-06-26 04:59:24
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