Caldense basketball, first eliminated from the 2023 National Games

Osvaldo Hernandez

THE COUNTRY I Manizales

History repeats itself, but with other names. Now it is the turn of Emanuel Segura, Sara López, Karol Castaño, Valeria Idárraga, Mariana Mariño and Valentina Aguirre, who looked for a team in other regions to be able to be in the National and Paranational Games of the Coffee Region. The same thing happened before to Daniela Benjumea and Juliana Amariles.

They did it because the Caldense Basketball League was not even enough to go to the first men’s qualifier and its processes are so entangled that there is no solution in sight either.

However, in the midst of the crisis, the above seem privileged; at least they have the option of going even with Risaralda and Chocó. Others, like María Fernanda Cardona, Laura Echeverri, Valeria Bedoya, Laura Franco, Santiago Ramírez, Daniel Gallego, David Buitrago, Camilo López, had to stay in Manizales.

“Until when are they going to keep us like this. They dispute power and we are the ones who are harmed, it is the sad reality of our sport,” said a player who requested that his name not be used.

“It’s very sad, because there are already five Games and there are many athletes who grew up thinking about that privilege and now see their dreams truncated again,” says Mónica Clemencia Franco, a local coach, who lived as a player in the golden age of Caldense basketball in the 90’s.

In the same sense, Fernando Medina thinks, who went through Caldense basketball as a player, coach and leader: “Generations were lost and administrative errors do not stop.”

Andrés Felipe Marín, Secretary of Sport of Caldas, has withdrawn the support in the consultancy so that they can catch up, but he emphasizes that without Recognition nothing can be done.

The process

The basketball of the National Games will be in Armenia. For this reason, Quindío as a local, has guaranteed quotas, both for men and women; the other teams will have to fight for the seven remaining spots, both in men’s and women’s.

The table of participants is defined in two selective in both branches. In the first the first four pass and in the second the three finalists, who will join the Quindians. It is an obligation to participate by the regulations of the Federation.

For this occasion, the teams are armed with players under 19 years of age, plus two reinforcements.

In that order, Caldas did not participate in the first male selective that was held in Santa Marta. The League, as long as its documentation is not up to date, cannot attend, it has no life in the National Sports System.

Although since last March there is a new executive committee, made up of Maryori Carmona (president), Juan Quintero (vice president), Julián Botero (treasurer), Sandra Palacios (secretary) and Juliana Hernández (member), the process was stopped because the control organisms they did not find the accounting periods of the past periods up to date (see Corrected).

Caldense basketball was a national power in the 1990s. It won a silver medal at the National Games in Bucaramanga and gold at the National Games in Pasto.

Therefore, today Emanuel Segura, Sara López, Karol Castaño, Mariana Mariño and Valentina Aguirre wear the Risaralda and Chocó shirts for the 2023 National Games. The rest… they will continue to compete in local tournaments.

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Since last March, the executive committee of the League was formed, which allowed the procedures to give administrative life to the entity with the support of the Caldas Secretary of Sport and the Office of Inspection, Surveillance and Control of the Ministry of Sport.

The goal is to go to the National Games, but they must not only have the documentation up to date, but also comply with the national calendar ordered by the Federation, such as the qualifiers. But they are stopped without the Sports Recognition.

In the midst of the procedures and procedures, they must, at the request of the DIAN, restructure the financial statements of past periods as ordered by law and the statutory auditor: “It is very complex to answer for documents or actions that one does not even know,” says the font.

A leader of the League, with his head down, said: “We continue to lack commitment to our athletes. We are on the verge of being left out of the most important competition in the country and without being able to start the processes with the reserve and development seedbeds “.

The clubs are the ones that maintain the sports development processes. Like the Government with the support through Intercollegiate Games with national projection.

The games

clubs

Promesas Caldas, Granadino, Samanes, Deportivo Juventud, Villamaría Basketball Club, Power Basketball Club, XL Fitness Basketball, Veterans Caldas Basketball, Promoter Semillas Colseñora, Promoter Semenor, Ingrumá Basketball, Manizales Basketball Club, Aranjuez Basketball Club, Joker’s Escuela Deportivas, Huracán de Basketball and Sports Bulls.