The basketball team that trained like “The Squid Game”

Alejandro Vázquez, coach of Platense, used as a resource a test of the macabre Netflix series to train his players in Vicente López.

The Serie most viewed in the history of Netflix it is “The Squid Game“(111 million viewers) and in Platense they know. So much is the fanaticism that the team of the National Basketball League used as a resource one of the macabre Korean strip games to train at the Vicente López estate.

Is about “Red light, green light”, the first test that the 456 participants tried to overcome at the beginning of the series, where a doll faces the wall and the rest of the players have to advance when their back is turned. But when it turns, nobody can move. And if someone does, they are eliminated. In Argentina he is better known as “the burned one.”

In this case, Alejandro Vazquez, coach of Platense, took a basketball and did the same. Of course, it was not as cruel as the doll of “The Squid Game“as the violence and 45.6 billion won prize money were put aside.

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“Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children’s games. Inside, an irresistible prize awaits them … with mortal risk“says the description of”The Squid Game“on the platform Netflix. It premiered on September 17, It is recommended for people over 16 years old, has nine chapters and reflects the violence, betrayal and despair that arises from the financial crisis of South Korea.

“The Squid Game” It was directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, who wrote it in 2008, but did not release it until sufficient investment was achieved. Its main actors are Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun, Park Hae-soo as Cho Sang-woo, Jung Ho-yeon as Kang sae-byeok, Wi Ha-joon like Hwang jun-ho, Oh young-soo how Oh Il-nam, Heo Sung-tae as Jang Deok-su and Lee Byung-hun as The front man.

The six tests that must face 456 participants, recruited with the aim of solving their millionaire debts, in the series are based on korean traditional children’s games from the seventies. The final test, from which the program takes its name it’s the squid game which consists of drawing different geometric shapes (circle, square or triangle) on the ground, which when put together seem to form the marine animal.

The vigilant competitors of the game use tred stripes and a mask which can have three types of geometric figures: circle for workers, triangles for armed soldiers and squares for managers. As the contestants are ghoulishly eliminated, the prize increases.