Another summer hanging from the hoop. In three months up to 13 competitions of basketball teams in which ‘La Familia’ in its different versions puts its excellence to the test. Because only in this way can the performance of some teams that have spent years confirming, tournament after tournament, the dominance of a Spanish team that always reaches competitions in the group of candidates, if not as an outstanding favourite, be qualified.
This summer he started basketball speaking with the dispute in the European Games of Krakow of the Pre-European 3×3, modality in which the boys fell at the first exchange against Hungary (21-16), while the girls hung a meritorious bronze. A women’s team that won the Orleans Women Series and then in the Marseilles came fifth.
girls silver
Posteriorly The girls of the absolute female entered the fray with a silver that almost went gold against the Belgians. Miguel Méndez’s girls were superior to their rivals with a choral game in which Alba Torrens and Queralt Casas stood out in scoring and Laura Gil and Raquel Carrera in the rebounding phase. It became clear that there is relief in the selection and the youngest began to gain weight in the rotations.
The silver for the girls gave way to another milestone in the history of La Familia, the second world title in Sub-19. Twenty-four years after the one won in Lisbon by the gold juniors with Pau Gasol at the helm, came the second thanks to the generation of Izan Almansa, Langarica, Jordi Rodríguez and company. With notable absences due to the calls of Aday Mara or Hugo González with the Under-18 and players with Juan Núñez with the Under-20, David Miret’s boys overcame all their rivals in the qualifiers until the final. There they crossed paths again with the physical France, which they had won with much superiority in the group, but a final is a final. The game was complicated from the start and only Spanish resilience on a day when they could not play their usual game allowed them to take the game to extra time. There the heart that they put with an unbalancing defense gave them the title and made them world champions completing the medal table after the bronze of the 3×3 girls in Krakow and the silver of the absolute women in the Stozice Arena in Ljubljana.
The climax of the World Cup
There are still nine more competitions to go, in fact the women’s European Under-18 tournament is already taking place in Konya (Turkey) and next week the men’s European Under-20 tournament will start in the Greek city of Heraklion. Everything until reaching the peak of the basketball calendar that will take place between August 25 and September 10 in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia, where spain will defend the title of current men’s world champion against teams like the United States, France or a Canada that will be directed by the Spanish coach Jordi Fernández, assistant coach at the Sacramento Kings.
Basketball is, without a doubt, the sport with the best health on the Spanish scene. The recipe was given by the president of the Spanish Federation, Jorge Garbajosa, in his interview in EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA, from the Prensa Ibérica group: “To be completely honest, and we do not hide it, such a good result in so many categories is very difficult to foresee. The potential of our boys and our girls was there. But it is true that, above all, information, medals has never been an objective for this federation. And also, since I arrived I made it very clear. I have said it many times internally, many times publicly. The idea is to train players so that they end up nurturing the absolute Spanish team, mixing masculine and feminine. It is true that if his results are so good it is because the path is the right one, or so it seems. But today I want to value a lot things that are not seen, such as the Unified Work entry methodology that we established in 2016. And, of course, it is a success of the clubs that take these boys and girls out and take care of them and all this enormous family that is Spanish basketball”.
In addition, Jorge Garbajosa is, since last May, president of FIBA Europe, as well as the top manager of Hispaniola, and Since last November 18, 2022, Spain has held the leadership in the FIBA national team ranking for the first time in its history. And Spanish basketball lives this 2023, the year of its centenary, installed in sports excellence.
SUMMER 2023 CALENDAR OF COMPETITIONS
ABSOLUTE SELECTION
Women’s Eurobasket: From June 15 to 25 – Israel and Slovenia (SILVER)
Men’s World Cup: From August 25 to September 10 – Philippines, Japan and Indonesia
INFERIOR CATEGORIES
MASCULINE
European Under-16 — Skopjie (North Macedonia) from August 5 to 13
European Under-18 — Nis (Serbia) from July 22 to 30
U-19 World Cup — Debrecen (Hungary) from June 24 to July 2 (GOLD)
European Under-20 — Heraklion (Greece) from July 8 to 16
FEMALE
European Under-16 — Izmir (Türkiye) from August 11 to 19
European Under-18 — Konya (Türkiye) from July 1 to 9
U-19 World Cup — Madrid (Spain) from July 15 to 23
European Under-20 — Lithuania from July 29 to August 6
3X3 SELECTION
Pre-European: From June 10 to 11 (BRONZE them and eliminated them)
European: From September 5 to 7
Women’s Under-18 World Cup: From August 30 to September 3
2023-07-03 16:49:06
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