On its tour of Asian lands, the Colombian basketball team explores the young talent that could give the team a new air in the Americanup 2025.
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The Colombian Basketball team, directed by Iván García, continues to add kilometers and learning on its development tour of Asia. With three victories and three losses so far, the balance is not measured only on the scoreboard, but in something more important: the real growth of the group and the appearance of new talents.
This Friday, the team will seek to keep the undefeated against Montenegro (2-0 in history) in Jiaozuo. Beyond the result, the real objective is to prepare the basis of the team that will face the Americanup 2025 and consolidate a process that projects Colombian basketball to the next level.
In this development tour several names have shone that begin to emerge as the future of Colombian basketball. Miguel Caicedo Bazán has imposed his presence in painting with force and effectiveness, becoming an inner reference that gives balance to the team. Darwin Blanco, on the other hand, ratified in this international experience everything that shows every week with Pirates of Bogotá: talent, character and confidence to assume responsibilities beyond the local league.
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Nicolás Acosta, a two -meter eaves, has stood out for its explosiveness and ability to define near the hoop, qualities that project it as a key piece in the gear of the equipment. And behind them appears Juan Diego Saiz, a young shipowner of just 18 years who, despite his young age, already shows a vision of the game, impudence and a potential that reminds of the irruption that Hansel Atencia once had.
Coach Iván García summarizes this stage with frankness: there is, and much, but the true challenge is to strengthen collective work and tactical discipline that allow competing equally to the same in the best of the best selections on the continent.
The tour, which includes matches against Montenegro, Egypt, Chinese clubs and a closure against Serbia, not only seeks international filming. It will also serve to decide the last three or four quotas for the roster from the American.
Garcia insists that all part of the Colombian Professional League. “We need longer tournaments for players to live 100 % of basketball,” he explained to this medium. Only in this way can a solid quarry be built, in the style of Argentina or Brazil.
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Among the youth of the league who seek to win a place are names like Sebastián “El Piti” Valencia, Alejandro Minota, Juan José Lozano y Andrés Mauricio Salazar.
This tour is not an isolated project. It connects with the idea of generating a game identity that crosses all categories: major selection, development equipment and minor teams. The goal is that, in the medium term, Colombia is recognizable for its way of playing and competing.
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