Athletistic / Basketball. Colombian national team head coach Jorge Basques said that the team will continue to participate in various tournaments after the failure of the 2024 Friendship Cup in Perm. According to him, the national team has a goal to develop.
“After the Friendship Cup, we will continue to play and participate in tournaments. We will continue to work. The main goal of our team is to work and develop!” — TASS quotes the Basques as saying.
In the first match of the Friendship Cup, the Colombian team lost to Parma Perm with a crushing score of 53:155. After the meeting, the Colombian Basketball Federation issued a statement that it had not allowed the national team to participate in the tournament in Russia. However, the President of the Russian Basketball Federation (RBF), Andrei Kirilenko, later stated that the RBF had negotiated the participation of the Colombian national team in the Friendship Cup with the legitimate leadership of the Colombian Basketball Federation and had all the official documents to support it. The RFU was able to provide supporting documents.
In the second match of the Perm tournament, the Colombian team lost to Venezuela with a score of 57:108. Later, the meeting between the national teams of Russia and Colombia was canceled.
Source: Sport
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