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The Mexican Basketball Team arrives with great enthusiasm for the World Championship of the FIBA, which will be held in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia jointly. This will be the sixth appearance of the Aztecs in the great basketball event and their reappearance after nine years of absence, their last appearance was in Spain in 2014.
Mexico obtained its ticket to the World Cup after qualifying as third in its production of the FIBA-Americas qualifiersbehind only the United States and Puerto Rico and ahead of a power like Brazil.
The Mexicans will make their debut on August 25 against the complicated Selection of Montenegroone of the most difficult bones to crack for the Aztecs led by Omar Quintero, who among other novelties will not have the services of the NBA Jaime Járquez Jr. or Juan Toscano-Anderson on the squad.
Calendar and rivals of the Mexican National Team in the Basketball World Cup
As cited above, The Mexican Basketball Team will make its debut next Friday, August 25, against the tough rival of Montenegroin a game that will take place in the Philippines and that could mark the path of those led by Omar Quintero.
then They will face another recognized basketball power such as the Lithuanian National Teamwho will have in front next sunday august 27. It should be noted that the Lithuanians will have NBA player Jonas Valanciunas in their squad.
Finally, Mexico will close its participation in the first phase, in a key game against the Egyptian National Team August 29ththe African team is on paper the least complicated team that the Aztec team will have to face and it will be necessary to see the record with which they will reach that last game.
Squad of the Basketball Team to face the FIBA World Cup
With some notable absences already mentioned and by technical decision, Omar Quintero has been clear for some time about who his pupils will be to face the important basketball eventa World Cup where Mexico wants to demonstrate and for this it has key pieces that we will name below.
Bases: Jorge Gutierrez, Orlando Mendez, Ivan Montano and Paul Stoll.
escorts: Moisés Andriassi and Pako Cruz.
eaves: Gael Bonilla and Gabriel Giron Jr.
Power Wings: Jorge Camacho, Héctor Hernández and Fabián Jaimes.
center: Daniel Amigo, Israel Gutiérrez and Joshua Ibarra.
The cards are cast and it only remains to wait for the jump between two initial and the hopes of the Mexican National Team in this Basketball World Cup.
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