The senior Dominican men’s basketball team wants to be well prepared for its next international engagement.
For this, he made a high-level blanket with the Lithuanian and Russian teams between June 18-25, before their participation in the pre-Olympic tournament that will take place in Belgrade, Serbia between June 29 and July 4.
“We plan to travel on June 15 to arrive in Lithuania on June 16, train on the 17th and have a first match with the Lithuanians on the 18th. On the 23rd we will have a meeting with Russia and another on the 25th with Lithuania,” he said. confirmed Deportes de LISTÍN DIARIO, the president of the Dominican Basketball Federation (Fedombal), Rafael Uribe.
Thanks to Sabonis
He underlined the receptivity shown by the president of the Lithuanian federation, the former player Arvydas Sabonis, in order to reach the agreement between the federations that led to the international goal.
“We plan to hold a 10- and 11-day training camp in Lithuania and then on July 26 we will fly to Belgrade, Serbia, for our tour,” Uribe added.
In Serbia
In the tournament, the Dominicans will share group A with Serbia and New Zealand, while in group B will participate Puerto Rico, Italy and Senegal.
The top two in each group advance to a crossover semifinal (1A versus 2B and 2A versus 1B), with the winners contesting the final and the Olympics ticket.
The winner will join three other winners from the same number of tournaments that will take place in Canada (Greece, China, Uruguay, Czech Republic, Turkey), Croatia (Germany, Russia, Mexico, Tunisia, Brazil) and Lithuania (South Korea , Venezuela, Poland, Slovenia, Angola).
Recent triumph
The Dominican team emerges from qualifying for next year’s Americup with a close 103-99 victory over the US Virgin Islands on Friday in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to go 4-1 in Group C of the qualifying round .
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Antecedents.
In 2012, the Creole team had a similar experience when they participated in the Olympic play-offs held in Venezuela and in which they lost to Nigeria in the match for the last place for that year’s Olympic Games, which took place in London. . Lithuania and Russia, in fact, were the others that advanced to the Olympics.