MADRID, 9 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish men’s basketball team will begin its preparation this Monday in Malaga for the Valencia Olympic Qualifiers next July, although national coach Sergio Scariolo will not be able to count on all his players for the moment.
Last Thursday, the Italian coach provided a list of 22 players to begin fine-tuning the setup for the vital event that La Fuente de San Luis will host and where he will seek qualification for the Olympic Games, although it will start in the Costa del Sol capital with only 15 of them. .
Thus, the one from Brescia will not have at his disposal for the moment the Madrid players Sergio Llull, Rudy Fernández and Alberto Abalde, who are immersed in the final of the Endesa League, nor with forward Juancho Hernangómez (Panathinaikos) or point guard Lorenzo Brown (Maccabi ), who returns almost two years later to the national team, because they are also involved in the finals of their respective domestic championships.
The two ‘NBA’ that Scariolo has mentioned will also not be at this start, Santi Aldama (Memphis Grizzlies) and Usman Garuba (Golden State Warriors), so in Malaga he will have Alex Abrines, Darío Brizuela, Joel Parra and Willy Hernangómez (Barça ), Alberto Díaz and Yankuba Sima (Unicaja), Sergi García (Río Breogán), Fran Guerra and Edgar Vicedo (Lenovo Tenerife), Xabi López-Arostegi, Jaime Pradilla and Josep Puerto (Valencia Basket), Juan Núñez (Ratiopharm Ulm), Miquel Salvó (Dreamland Gran Canaria) and Santi Yusta (Casademont Zaragoza).
In addition, the team will coincide in Malaga with the men’s U-20, which will be in the Andalusian city preparing the Eurobasket of its category, so Sergio Scariolo will be able to add players from this team for some training sessions as part of the ‘Golden Boys’ 2.0 program. launched by the FEB.
Subsequently, the current European champion will play two friendly matches, against Italy on June 25 at the WiZink Center in Madrid and against the Dominican Republic on June 28 at the Pedro Ferrándiz pavilion in Alicante. After this, he will travel to Valencia where between July 2 and 7 he will play his Pre-Olympic that distributes only one ticket to Paría. First of all, she must finish in the top two of her initial group, which she shares with Lebanon and Angola, to face Finland, Poland or the Bahamas in the semifinals.
2024-06-09 19:57:10
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