The Spanish women’s team will have a difficult Pre-Olympic

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Hungary, Japanese and the first classified by Americawhich will come from the winner of the Tournament they will play Canada, Puerto Rico, Colombia and Venezuela in November, they will be the rival of the women’s basketball team in Pre-Olympic which will be held from February 8 to 11, 2024 at Hungary.

Sixteen teams, divided into four groups, will find their ticket for Olympic Games of Paris 2024, where they are already classified Franceas hostess, and USA, as world champion. Ten of them will get tickets, the first two in each group.

“We had a group with three strong rivals. Hungary, who we played in the semifinals of the last European Championship, will be very difficult at home; Japan is the current Olympic runner-up; and the champion of the American Tournament will probably be Canada, which is the strongest of the four teams,” said the national coach. Miguel Mendez.

The Galician coach predicted “very close” matches, which could lead to “double and triple ties” that would require the arrival of “very ready” to achieve the “objective” of qualifying for Paris 2024.

The draw, held this Thursday at Sopron (Hungary), matched in group A the second place team from America, China, New Zealand and France; they will compete in group B Senegal, USA, Belgium and Nigeria; and in group C they will Brazil, Germany, Serbia and Australia.

Hungary Play at home and you will have a very favorable environment; Japan has a style of play that we don’t know how it will turn out; and we’ll have to wait for the American Tournament in November to find out which team we’ll get. But the most important thing is that our team arrived in the best conditions, without any injuries and with the best preparation,” said the president of the Spanish Federation, Elisa Aguilar, after attending the draw.

Source: La Verdad

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