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After avoiding a surprise against Trinidad and Tobago yesterday at the beginning of the XVII Pan American Cup of the Confederation Norceca the Women's Volleyball Team ] today faces [United States] in a match that would give the first opportunity to access the semifinals and qualify for the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru .
The top five teams of the Cup will qualify Lima 2019.
The match against the United States is the last of the Puerto Ricans in the preliminary round of Group B.
They arrive at the match with a score of 2-0 after the 3-2 win over Trinidad and Tobago, which United States (1-0) played last night against Cuba (0-1).
A win against the United States would give Puerto Rico the first place in Group B and the opportunity to go straight to the semifinals.
In the Cup, the top two best places, the three groups that make up the Cup, go straight to the semi-finals and automatically qualify Lima 2019.
"That would be ideal," acknowledged the national leader, Javier Gaspar.
The candidates to get there first in groups A and C are respectively the Dominican Republic and Brazil.
Gaspar did not badure that injured Daly Santana could play against the United States.
The United States brought their Team B to the Pan Am Cup. His team A won last week the inaugural edition of the International Federation of Volleyball League of Nations (FIVB). His team B includes the opposite of the Puerto Rican descent, Aiyana Whitney that Puerto Rico invited to be part of the national team.
If Puerto Rico falls in the United States and does not arrive first in Group B, has other opportunities to reach the semifinals and qualify for Lima.
Puerto Rico may also seek the semi-finals for the quarter-finals, which he has already badured. There, they would find competitive teams like Colombia, Argentina, Canada and Mexico.
"These are teams that will be a big challenge for us," Gaspar describes.
The national team can also seek a qualification for Lima. match between fifth and sixth place.
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