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Havana (PL) .- Without a doubt, one of the highlights of the upcoming Central American Games and the Barranquilla Caribbean-2018 will be the men's basketball competition.
Mexico and Puerto Rico will seek in Barranquilla to proclaim itself as the greatest historical winner of this tournament. Both sets deposit six regional titles and arrive in Colombia with the necessary qualifications to take the seventh scepter to their shop windows.
The Puerto Ricans, holders of the two previous editions, defeated the Aztecs 84-79 in their farewell to the third. This success allowed them to finish in second place in the C key with a series of four wins and two losses, behind the United States (5-1) and ahead of Mexico (3-3) and Cuba (0-6 ).
Puerto Rico set up a high-level team made up of players from the National League of Basketball after several controversies that led to the initial plan. introduce a team with university athletes.
The lack of birth certificates that could establish the family relationship for Puerto Rican citizenship, permits from their universities and problems with pbadports, on the main causes that prevented the formation of a family. team with schoolchildren working in the United States.
Obliged by the circumstances, the Basketball Federation of the so-called Isla del Encanto was to take advantage of players participating in its national competition to build a list
From there, names such as Gian Clavell, Ramón Clemente, Ricky Sánchez and Ángel Vbadallo stand out, all with the participation to the premundial meetings. A team that clearly sees as one of the candidates for the throne.
Mexico does not want to be left behind and will also bet on a high caliber team. His big star, Gustavo Ayón, flamenco champion of Spain and Europe with Real Madrid, confirmed that he will lead the Aztec team before the regional commitment where he aspires to hang the gold medal.
At the end of last month, 'El Titán & # 39; Nayarit told reporters: "I will attend the Games of Central America and the Caribbean because it is one of the things I still have to live on and I have the illusion to win a medal and if it is the gold medal, it is with more desire. " On his return to the national team in the third qualifying window at the end of June and the beginning of July, Ayón played a decisive role in the Warriors' surprising victory over the Americans 78-70.
The last time the Mexicans won the men's basketball crown in the Caribbean fights was 28 years ago, at the 16th edition, which was headquartered in Mexico City.
But it will not be a flowery path for the Aztecs and Puerto Ricans, who will have by means of the standards of Panama and the Dominican Republic, sets that have reached their tickets for the second phase of the fair of premiación with solid performance in the field.
The two quintets know what it is to wear the crown, because they have done it in a few previous occasions. The cbaderos at Kingston-1962 and Santiago de los Caballeros-1986, while the Quisqueyanos at Maracaibo-1998 and San Salvador-2002
The one who never won and strongly aspires to his best historical performance in this type multideportivas dating is Venezuela
In the history of sport burst in several regional games, the "morochos" have barely gotten a bronze medal, reached at the fair that was held in Maracaibo in 1998.
Currently Venezuelan basketball He is one of the most powerful in the zone, as evidenced by the first date of the third stage of the 2019 World Cup qualifiers, breaking the winning streak of the mighty Brazilian team with a score of 72-56. If they are finally called, striker José Vargas and striker Néstor Colmenares will be a real headache for any rival team.
Finally, the one who will come with the spirit of recovering the glories of once will be the whole of Cuba. With a broad renewal in its ranks, the Grand Antillais aspires to hang a medal of any color in Barranquilla, a result that does not happen in Ponce-1993, when they finished with the medal of the year. Money falling in the final against Puerto Rico
The Cuban team will be led by young figures of excellent individual performances in some of the best teams on the continent.
The names to follow will be those of the center Javier Jústiz and the striker Jasiel Rivero, both acclaimed for their The rise on the podium will not be an easy task for the West Indians, who have archived six defeats without victories in the World Cup qualifiers because of their shortcomings in the so-called "team work", the low efficiency However, the Colombian city could constitute the awakening of Cuban men's basketball, once powerful. one in the region supported by three titles to his credit.
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(*) Journalist of the Prensa Latina Press Office
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