Panama basketball wants to ‘wash its image’

The sport of hoops and ball has gone through tough days in recent years, for the new president Panama Basketball Association (Fepaba), Abdiel Blanco, one of his goals is to be able to fight back “credibility and transparency”basketball, wash your image.

white, He explained that there was no transition, that yesterday he had to draw up a report, in order to be able to enter the offices of Fepaba, there are no papers, documents, information of anything, no password for social networks, nothing. “We don’t know where we are,” said the presenter, referring to the lack of information.

Even the advance directive wants to close the bank account, when it belongs fepaba, There are also no sponsors as such, only some exchanges, which is why one of his goals in management is for basketball to have “credibility and transparency” again, he pointed out.

White who he replaced on duty Jair Peraltand, he added that he was unable to meet with the old board and he hopes to do so in the coming days.

Election of Panama and postpone LPB

The first is the possibility of participating in the Pan American Games in Santiago in 2023.

Choice of Panama andIt will be made up of local players, it started training yesterday at the Los Andes gym, and it will be temporarily managed by a coach, José “Black” Gómez and one of his assistants is a former national team player, Jamal Levy with an eye on the Pan American Games.

white, He added that the big problem we have is infrastructure, we don’t have it Roberto Durán Arena because it has a rowing tournament and a tennis event 7th street, That’s why he will train in Los Andes.

Panama will also have a tournament FIBA February, where they will have to face each other Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

One of the leader’s goals is to get a gallery or headquarters so that Fepaba can have its own board, so that it can train.

Panama he could not participate in the pre-Olympic qualifications, and Blanco claims that he does not know about the consequences, which is why he will contact International Basketball Federation (FIBA)to find out about possible sanctions.

Another is to communicate with FIBApostpone the tournament Professional Basketball League (LPB) For next year.

The LPB, It takes time and logistics, and that’s why the intention is to postpone it to another year.

According to the president of Fepaba, another of his goals is to spread basketball among the masses, and for that he will start with Happy basketball summerwe already have confirmation Veraguas, Chiriquí and Darienother provinces have yet to resolve their electoral issues and confirm their participation, he said.