Before the start of the World Cup for the Puerto Rico loses against the United States and points to a match against Russia to try to qualify for the World Cup”>National Women’s Basketball Team tomorrow, the team will have an excellent record.
The Puerto Ricans play in Group A based in Washington DC and will face each other tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. in his first match against Belgium, number six at the FIBA world level. Puerto Ricans are at number 18.
The Puerto Rican team will return to the field on Saturday against the United States, a team that has already qualified for the 2023 World Cup in Australia, and then travel to the Dominican Republic to face Russia next Monday.
Only two spaces remain to qualify for the 12-player World Cup, a reduction of four representatives compared to the last edition of 2018, when Puerto Rico qualified for a World Cup for the first time.
“Obviously, it’s more complicated now. Our focus is Belgium or Russia. The United States is already qualified. We have to beat one of those two teams to get in. It would have been like that in any of the groups. We have to beat good teams,” said manager Jerry Batista.
“The approach is that. We know that both teams, on paper, are better than us, more experienced and better ranked. But, that is in the past. We have played with better ranked teams, which are above us and we have been able, on a specific day, to win. That’s the mindset. Go out and play,” he added.
Two years ago, the Puerto Ricans struck out their ticket to Tokyo 2020, after beating Brazil and this team losing against Australia.
