Towards the World Cup: Argentina beat the United States and qualified for China 2019

It was a night out of the best dream for El Alma. A brilliant stadium with 13,000 enthusiastic spectators, a formidable category opponent, a high-flying performance, a big victory and the grand prize: the World Cup standings. All that lived and enjoyed the Argentine national basketball team in La Rioja, where he beat the United States from 80 to 63 and won a place in China 2019, competition that will run from August 31 to 15 September.

It was not predictable of so much good news that at 5m13 of the match, that is to say after a quarter of a quarter, Argentina lost to 12-0, did not find his game and lost a lot of bullets. This ended up being a celebration of delivery and a good basketball, which raised the audience until it was celebrated with permanent vocals in the last minutes.

The team will be presented again this Sunday, also in the capital of La Rioja, which received a lot of affection during this new visit to the great Superdomo and in the practices for this engagement of last night . In this case, the opponent will be Mexico, already with the tranquility of the ranking badured for the place, which, with 9 wins and 1 defeat, leads the group E and can not be reached by the fourth, Puerto Rico, which occupies the place of repechage.

Nicolás Laprovittola was among the faces against the United States with 17 points and 8 badists. the audience applauded when it came out within seconds of the final ring. Lucio Redivo, as scorer, and Nicolás Brussino, with excellent defense (rebounds and blockages) also played an important role in the reversal of early adverse development.

The synthesis of Argentina 80 vs. United States 63

Argentina: Nicolás Laprovittola, 17 years old; Paolo Quinteros, 5; Nicolás Brussino, 11 years old; Luis Scola, 10, and Marcos Delía, 9 years old (initial training); Lucas Faggiano, 2 years old; Lucio Redivo, 14 years old; Máximo Fjellerup, 4; Franco Giorgetti, 2, and Federico Aguerre, 6. Substitutes: Javier Saiz and Roberto Acuña. DT: Sergio Hernández.

United States: Travis Trice, 16 years old; John Jenkins, 2 years old; Julian Williams-Washburn, age 5; Richard Solomon, 2 years old, and Tyler Zeller, 2 years old (starting training); Scotty Hopson, 9 years old; Chbadon Randle, 9 years old; Cameron Reynolds, 3 years old; Joel Berry, 4 years old; Reggie Hearn, 9, and Eric Moreland, 2 years old. Substitute: Deandre Liggins. DT: Jeff Van Gundy.

Partial: 13-16, 35-32 (22-16), 58-40 (23-8) and 80-63 (22-23).

Stadium: Superdomo, from La Rioja.