Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan delegation of Under-18 basketball in women’s basketball, which took third place, returned, on Monday, from African de Antananarivo (Madagascar), with the bronze medal on their chest, where the men’s, in the same category, did not went beyond fourth place.
Before the competition, the two teams had four weeks of preparation, which was not very regular, as the group spent two years without two years without competitions, due to the restrictions imposed by Covid-19, which led the technical teams to review concepts. basics during the first week of testing.
Elisa Pires, for the men’s team, and Apolinário Paquete, for the men’s, had to put into practice the pedagogical side, for about a week and a half, to revive some technical concepts for the pre-selected.
Looking at these assumptions, the performances in the African, in general terms, were not bad. In the eyes of the two technicians, the most direct opponents were and are with more competitive shooting. Mali and Egypt, in both sexes, recently participated in the U-17 World Cup.
In men’s competitions, where competition was tighter, Mali did not have the legs to follow the hosts’ footsteps in the semi-final, while Angola fell to Egypt in the same phase.
Egypt (title champions) and Madagascar, runners-up, will represent the continent at the U-19 World Cup next year, without a stage yet.
Egypt won the title after an 81-54 victory over host Madagascar.
Despite the support of its public, Madagascar was no obstacle for Egypt, which has already won the trophy five times and, in this final, Egypt once again showed its ambition and superiority since the first period (20-13).
Well launched, they scored in the second quarter (21-8). In the second half, the hosts pressured without ever being able to recover the disadvantage. And if they manage to win the third quarter (21-20), the last one was, again, in favor of the Egyptians (21-12), who thus won their sixth title in the competition.
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