A part of the Argentine men’s basketball team arrived today in Las Vegas, a city in the United States chosen to design the majority segment of the preparation, prior to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The Bahia coach Sergio Hernández, together with his assistants Gabriel Piccato and Maximiliano Seigorman, led the Albiceleste delegation that will begin a series of tasks in the next few hours, which will last for just over two weeks.
Together with them, base Nicolás Laprovíttola (Real Madrid, Spain) also arrived in the United States; the escort Nicolás Brussino (Zaragoza, Spain); forward Máximo Fjellerup (San Lorenzo) and pivot Marcos Delía (Trieste, Italy).
In the early hours of Monday, from Spain, the Cordovan guard Leandro Bolmaro (Barcelona, Spain) and the Mar del Plata forward Patricio Garino (Zalgiris Kaunas, Lithuania) will join the concentration. Kinesiologist Paulo Maccari will also travel, according to a report from the Argentine Basketball Confederation (CAB).
Later, basketball players Lautaro Berra (Obras Basket), Juan Pablo Vaulet (Manresa, Spain) and Tayavek Gallizzi (Instituto de Córdoba), who were traveling from Buenos Aires, will join the work.
During Monday, captain Luis Scola (Varese, Italy) and those players who live in the United States must join: Facundo Campazzo (Denver Nuggets), Luca Vildoza (New York Knicks) and Francisco Cáffaro (University of Virginia).
Meanwhile, the integration of the Santiago forward Gabriel Deck (Oklahoma City Thunder) will depend on his evolution of the coronavirus that is transiting. The former San Lorenzo and Real Madrid player is isolated at his home in Colonia Dora, waiting to register a negative in the future swab that will be practiced immediately.
The Argentine team, world runner-up in China 2019, will host three friendly matches in preparation. On Saturday July 10, Hernández’s quintet will face Australia; on Monday the 12th it will meet Nigeria and on Tuesday the 13th it will have as its rival the United States, the current three-time Olympic champion. (Télam)