With Luis Scola, the Basketball World Cup was raffled off

The Argentine is part of the event that determined the groups of the next World Cup that will be held from August 8 in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia.

The 18th edition of the Basketball World Cupwhich will be held in three places, Philippines, Japan and Indonesiafrom next August 8 and where Argentina is no longer, was raffled this Saturday with the presence of louis scolaformer Argentine national team player, Olympic champion and world runner-up, as tournament ambassador.

The ceremony was held at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, in Manila, Philippines, and both Luifa as the former outstanding German player Dirk Nowitzki was presented as ambassadors of the contest and participated in the raffle.

Spain, the current world champion after defeating Argentina in the final in China 2019 (95-75), will join Group G with Brazil, Iran and Ivory Coast, while the United States, the country with the most World Cup wins , is in C along with Greece, New Zealand and Jordan.

Argentina will not play in the World Cup as it was eliminated in February after falling in Mar del Plata against the Dominican Republic (led by Argentine Néstor “Che” García), by 79-75, after leading by 17 points (61- 44) at two minutes and 25 seconds to end the third quarter.

The groups of the Basketball World Cup 2023

• Group A: Philippines, Italy, Dominican Republic and Angola
• Group B: Serbia, Puerto Rico, China and South Sudan
• Group C: United States, Greece, New Zealand and Jordan.´
• Group D: Lithuania, Montenegro, Mexico and Egypt
• Group E: Australia, Germany, Japan and Finland.
• Group F: Slovenia, Venezuela, Georgia and Cape Verde
• Group G: Spain, Brazil, Iran and Ivory Coast
• Group H: France, Canada, Latvia and Lebanon.

How the 2023 Basketball World Cup is played

In each group the teams play a round robin, the best two advance to the second round for the winners, the remaining two advance to the second round for the losers. The 16 winning teams are divided into 4 groups of 4 teams. They will face each other once in the group, except for the opponent they have already faced, and the best two in each group will advance to the second stage. The other eliminated teams were ordered from the 9th. until the 16th

Then comes the playoffs starting with the quarterfinals. The teams meet once in a single match, the winners advance while the losers are eliminated from the title match, from the quarterfinals to the semifinals and from there to the final. Teams eliminated in the quarterfinals agree to play for fifth place in two rounds of playoffs. The winners of the first matchup will contest the match for fifth place, while the losers will compete in the match for seventh place.