Panama meets its basketball rivals in Santiago 2023

Coach of the senior basketball team Panama, José “Negro” Gómez, This Friday, he admitted that his rivals in Group A from Pan American Games Santiago 2023 will be known and will be of high weight, once paired with AArgentina, Dominican Republic and Venezuela.

“They are already well-known opponents from previous tournaments and we are aware that any of the two groups will be difficult, but obviously we have to face the task, go game by game and see the advantages and disadvantages that the opponents present,” commented the coach. Panamanian team.

Gómez, who was already in the processes of the Panamanian national team in the junior and senior categories, pointed out that “we are all equal (at the tournament), because they will not have their A team”.

“Dominican Republic They will not have the vast majority of their professional players, they will go with local players; Argentina is in transition, we don’t know if they will come with the same coach, we don’t know if they will have a different game system like Venezuela“, he stated.

The Panama coach clarified that he works with the base of the national team. Since it is not a date Fiba nor there will be professional players playing in leagues outside of Panama but hoping to make the most of the human material they have.

“We are trying to get these players to maintain the rhythm of the competition, to do microcycles, to try to optimize this month some of the work on the physical and technical aspects of the group,” he commented.

He added that “we know perfectly well the players we have, we know what we have and we just have to prepare a strategy and go game by game”.
The coach did not keep the problems that the team presents Panamanian combination prepare, because apart from having players willing to work, they have no inputs for that work.

The Panamanian team rotates its training sessions at the Los Andes sports complex, in the capital of Panama, which has, according to Gómez, a “slightly dilapidated” board and gymnasium University of Panamaá, which gives a little more comfort, but is not exclusive to the work of the Panamanian team. “Unfortunately, that’s what we have,” he emphasized.

The Panamanian team will begin its basketball journeyPan American Gamesare Tuesday, October 31 against the Dominican Republic, the next day Argentina awaits them, and they close the group round on November 2 against Venezuela.

In group B there were pairs of Chile, Mexico, Brazil and Puerto Rico.

Itwith the Pan American Games It will be held from October 20 to November 5, 2023 in Santiago, Chile. They will compete in 39 sports and 57 disciplines; followed by the Parapan American Games, from November 17 to 26, with 17 sports and 18 disciplines.

Santiago 2023 It will gather almost nine thousand athletes from 41 nations of the American continent. Thirty disciplines will be direct qualifiers for Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris