San José beats Libertad in the first basketball final

In the first final, the current champion San José defeated Libertad at home, which could not cope with the offensive power of the candidate to repeat the title in the first basketball division.

The scoreboard with which the first game ended was 89 to 79 in favor of the Sanjos team, who turned around and got the comeback to start this series smiling.

The finals are played to the best of 5 and in the next occasion, the “cabbages” will be local. The “Gumarelo” will seek to match the series, while the holy cast will try to take advantage of the locality and increase the difference.

This Friday the second game will be played and the presence of fans is expected at the Albinegro sports center. It should be remembered that this is the return of basketball, after last season it could not be played due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Although there is still a month and a little more left for the election of new officials of the Cerro Porteño Club, which will be done through an Assembly, details are already being adjusted for such an event.

As things are, Juan José Zapag will run again to be president of the Barrio Obrero Cyclone. In that sense, add a key and weighty name to your list, or at least that’s about to happen.

Juan Carlos Pettengill, son of Luis Pettengil, ex-president of the club, would have everything agreed and in fact, he met with Zapag to go over all the points. It was Pettengill himself who confirmed this to Versus Radio on 970 AM.

“We saw the classic together with Juan José Zapag. I arrived early and we were talking a lot. Of the candidates that there are, I think that the ruling party is interesting for it to continue at least one more period,” he began by saying.

“I already said that my career as a manager is over. I was with my son (Juan Carlos) watching the game and he was also talking with Juan José. It is a decision that he (about his son) has to make clearly, if he wants to dedicate his time to that, “added Luis.

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Two games are played today on the Sol de América field for the semifinals of the Paraguay Cup and the first semifinalists of the tournament will emerge, which gives a place to the South American Cup 2022.

In the first duel of the quarterfinal round between first division teams, Libertad faces Sportivo Luqueño. If there is a tie in normal time, penalties will be executed to define.

Gumarelo is classified to the Libertadores of 2022, but is playing to retain the title, since it was the winner of the last edition of 2019, since last year this competition could not be played due to the pandemic.

For its part, in the background commitment two teams that fought in their categories face each other. Atlético Tembetary, today based in Villa Elisa, collides with Tacuary from the Jara neighborhood, a team that achieved one of the promotions to the professional division next year from the Intermediate.

Source: La Nación Newspaper – Printed.

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