Argentina has competitors to reach Paris 2024

At the national team level, Argentine basketball is going through perhaps its worst sporting moment in decades. At the mercy of the unforgettable golden generation, Argentina has been in the top five in the world for almost two decades. Its iconic figures such as “Manu Ginobili, Luis Scola, Andrés Noccione, Fabricio Oberto,” “Pepe” Sanchez, Alejandro Montequia, catapulted them to unexpected achievements, medals in the Olympic Games, and world runners-up. Today the reality is something else. And it was completely marked by that, the match that took place at the Islas Malvinas Sports Center in Mar del Plata against the Dominican Republic, those last moments, that defeat for Pablo Prigioni’s team, which means his exclusion from the 2023 World Cup.

Collateral damage was Paris 2024, With the new conflict and FIBA’s qualification format, getting to the Olympics becomes less complicated or countries that qualify for the World Cup have more chances than those that don’t qualify for the World Cup. As it happened, in favor of Argentina in China 2019 towards Tokyo 2020.

Argentina continues with the chances of qualifying for the Olympic Games, but the road will be long and complicated. Because he will play in the American Rebecca and will be looking for a ticket against: Bahamas, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Panama, Uruguay and the Virgin Islands. There will be one lane for the World Repechage, which will have 24 participants. There will be four regions of six teams that will each award the last four tickets to the Olympic Games

In this global remake, there will be five teams from those continental nations: one from America, one from Asia, one from Africa, and two from Europe. As for the other 19, they are: the best-ranked team from Africa in the World Cup, the best-ranked team from America in the World Cup, the best-ranked team from Asia in the World Cup, then the other 16 team that follows it in the final classification. world Cup.

Participants in each of the Continental Annex Committees will be:

Africa: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia, Uganda.

America: Argentina, Bahamas, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Panama, Uruguay and Virgin Islands.

Asia: Bahrain, Chinese Taipei, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Korea, Saudi Arabia and Syria.

Europe: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and Bulgaria.

At the next meeting of the Central Council of On April 28 and 29, the host country will be selected for each of the Continental Qualifying Championships. while The group draw will take place on the 1st of May.. The date for the continental connecting flights will be from 12th to 20th August 2023.