The coach of the Uruguayan basketball team Rubén Magnano defined this Wednesday the 12 players who will play the Pre-Olympic in Victoria, Canada, for a place for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The team began training on Monday June 14 and was completed last Tuesday with the arrival from Germany of Jayson Granger, who comes from being Bundesliga champion with Alba Berlin.
Granger has not played for the national team since the AmeriCup 2017 where Uruguay served as a local in one of the series at the Palacio Peñarol. Later he was not loaned out by Baskonia for the Playoffs and when the season ended he suffered a severe ankle injury that required surgery.
Granger on the field of Biguá, friendly in 2017 with Argentina
Magnano cut four players who made up the team: Gustavo “Panchi” Barrera, Theo Metzger, Martín Rojas and Mauricio Arregui.
Like Granger, Bruno Fitipaldo arrives after playing two excellent games in the Spanish Endesa League, the last one at Lenovo Tenerife, where he arrived from San Pablo Burgos.
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Fitipaldo at Lenovo Tenerife
Luciano Parodi has just agreed to return to European basketball to play for Oliver Würzburg, after playing for Minas Tenis in Brazil.
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Juan Ignacio Ducasse, who played the 2021 League in Trouville, has just arranged in Hispano Americano to play the Argentine League.
Mathías Calfani finished his season in Japan and is now looking for a new destination after defending Kawasaki Brave Thunders.
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Mathías Calfani will have a very hard job
The local media include Esteban Batista, vice-champion of the League with Nacional, Federico Haller and Kiril Wachsmann from Malvín and Nicolás Borsellino from Peñarol.
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Wachsmann testing with the open shot
The youngest is Santiago Véscovi, who is in his second season in the US NCAA at the University of Tennessee.
Véscovi, great promise of the national basketball
The squad, a mixture of young and old, averages 28.6 years and a short stature of 1.97 meters.
Magnano’s coaching staff is completed by his assistants Edgardo Kogan and Javier Isis and the physical trainer Marcelo Bessio.
The team began a trip to Canada on Thursday morning and will arrive in Victoria prior to stopovers in Panama and Vancouver.
| Player | Team | Position | Age | Height |
| Jayson granger | Alba Berlin | Base | 31 | 1.88 m |
| Luciano Parodi | Oliver Würzburg | Base | 27 | 1.83 m |
| Joaquin Rodriguez | Basket Works | Base | 22 | 1.94 m |
| Bruno Fitipaldo | Lenovo Tenerife | Base help | 29 | 1.83 m |
| Santiago Vescovi | Tennessee Volunteers | Base help | 19 | 1.91 m |
| Juan Ignacio Ducasse | Hispanic American | Eaves | 22 | 2.06 m |
| Emiliano Serrés | Basket Works | Eaves | 24 | 2.06 m |
| Mathias Calfani | Kawasaki brave thunders | Power forward | 29 | 2.02 m |
| Frederico haller | Malvin | Power forward | 33 | 1.97 m |
| Nicolas Borsellino | Peñarol | Wing-Pivot | 35 | 2.02 m |
| Kiril Wachsmann | Malvin | Pivot | 36 | 2.05 m |
| Esteban Batista | National | Pivot | 37 | 2.08 m |
| Averages: | 28.6 | 1.97 m |
Uruguay will play on June 29 against Turkey and on July 1 against the Czech Republic. In the other series of this Pre-Olympic key will be Canada, Greece and China. The first two of each bracket go to semis. The semifinal (first against second) and final is played. There is only one place for Tokyo.
Turkey will present a powerful roster with the presence of the American Shane Larkin as a point guard, a player with a passage through the NBA, the phenomenon Ersan Ilyasova, a player of Utah Jazz, Furkan Korkmaz, of the Philadelphia 76ers and Cedi Osman of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Czech Republic will be led by Chicago Bulls player Tomas Satoransky and Jan Vesely from Fenerbahçe.