Basketball: Bolivia with the mission of maintaining the advantage in Ecuador

The Bolivian basketball team is presented tonight in Guayaquil (8:30 p.m. in our country) with the mission of maintaining the advantage achieved in the first leg. They played last Saturday in Tarija and La Verde won 91-57. The winner of the key will advance to the second phase of the qualifying rounds towards the next world championship of the discipline.

The contest is organized by Fiba and puts Bolivia in front of a historic opportunity to continue advancing to open the possibility of facing the teams of Chile, Paraguay and Guatemala in the next instance.

The difference obtained in the first leg gives Giovanny Vargas’ team some peace of mind, but both coach and players declared during the week that this is sport and that this is basketball, that they should not relax at all and that in any case despite being Visitors have to go seek victory.

Both selected have already left Bolivia last Tuesday, they are currently in Ecuador, specifically in Guayaquil, awaiting the commitment. By FIBA ​​protocols the schools are inside a sanitary bubble.

The players of the national team come from hectic days after exposing the conditions in which they carried out their concentration, a situation that removed the focus of what was the triumph in the city of Tarija. To that is added that Josh Reaves, the Bolivian American left the squad.

The resignation of Reaves will be felt in the Bolivian cast and on that situation they worked in the last days, to replace their functions with other members of the team. Precisely the team play is a high point that those led by Giovanny Vargas have. His replacement could be the basketball player Calvo, although being a dynamic sport his replacement will depend on the moment in which the game is located. Although Josh will not be in this match, the National Team does not lose hope of being able to complete a classification and have the basketball player with Bolivian roots in a next instance of this World Cup dream.

Bolivia bets on team play, it has a certain advantage over Ecuador in the technical aspect, but its deficit is physical and centimeters, that deficiency is made up of Green’s attitude within the field of play to prevail in rebounds and defensive plays. A possible starting five would go with Arze, Calvo, Choque, Camargo and Mercado.

Some call this the golden generation of Bolivian basketball since for at least six years most of them have been playing together and achieving important things for red yellow and green basketball.

For its part, Ecuador is a young team that has the need to reverse a score that is not at all comfortable. They will try to take advantage of the internal problems and the federal and squad rift that exists in Bolivia, but they also know that when they enter the playing field the focus and the problems are left behind, that is why the formula that Ecuador is betting on is to carry out an intense match with all the physical stakes and an intelligent game in defense preventing Bolivia from scoring many points.