With no confirmed venue, FIBA has announced that the basketball tournament will take place in the country between August 12 and 20.
The Argentina’s basketball team will have a difficult road to find a place in Paris 2024 Olympic Games, but this Saturday he received the nod in favor for the start of that tour. At the FIBA Central Board meeting in the Philippines, it was confirmed that The Olympic Prequalifier of the Americas will be played from August 12 to 20 in Argentina, without even choosing the venue. Having failed to qualify for the World Cup in Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan, Pablo Prigioni’s team began to know what was to come.
With the draw next Monday, May 1, Argentina will top one of the two groups that will make up the four selected. First, each zone will go all out against everyone else and the first two will get tickets to the semifinals. Only the champion will enter the four FIBA Olympic Qualifiers, which will be held with a date and venue to be confirmed in 2024. Bahamas, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Panama, Uruguay and the Virgin Islands are the countries that will compete against Argentina for that important ticket.
After being left out of the world event for the first time since 1982, after losing against the Dominican Republic after winning 17 points, the Argentine National Team has only one chance left to be among the 12 that will be in the capital in 2024. French.
The four remaining places (seven for the World Cup and France for being local) are divided in the Pre-Olympics where 24 teams divided into four zones will participate. Each winner will get a ticket.
With Scola and without Argentina, the World Cup was drawn
The 18th edition of the Basketball World Cup, which will be held in three venues, the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia, from next August 8 and in which Argentina will not be present, was raffled this Saturday in the presence of Luis Scola, former player of the Argentine national team, Olympic champion and world runner-up, as ambassador of the tournament.
The ceremony was held at the Smart Araneta Coliseun, in Manila, Philippines, and both Luifa and former German standout Dirk Nowitzki were introduced as ambassadors for the contest and participated in the raffle.
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.
Source: Tycsports
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