The men’s and women’s basketball teams Spainwhich is scheduled to land in the French town of Lille Early this Thursday afternoon, they will train – as previously planned – at the stadium Pierre-Mauroy from Villeneuve-d’Ascq, the suburb that will host the matches before the quarterfinals; where it will be played Paris-Bercy.
The problem is that Pierre Mauroy It hosts a total of 24 teams – twelve women’s teams and the same number of men’s teams – and in the first distribution of schedules, the team of Sergio Scariolo He had to face his first training on French territory at a time almost at the same time as his arrival.
Finally, things have settled down and according to the just reported by the communications department of Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) “the management of FEBthe Olympic Committee and FIBA paid off” and this Thursday there will be “practice time, on the official track, at the end of the afternoon for the Men’s and Women’s 5×5 Teams.”
The team he leads Sergio Scariolo -who on Tuesday lost in the last friendly preparation Port Rich (107-84) in Madrid – will debut next Saturday against Australia; while the group led by Miguel Mendez -lost this Wednesday (64-48) Canada in Segovia, with 20 points from Queralt Casas and 17 from Megan Gustafson– will begin his Olympic journey a day later against China.
Source: La Verdad
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