Africa-Press – Angola. The National Table Tennis Team is carrying out a pre-competitive training camp in Portugal, aiming for the Region 5 African Championship, to be played from the 28th to the 30th of this month, in the Angolan capital, in Luanda.
Guided by coach Manuel Pimenta, the Angolan team, both sexes, made up of players Lisandro André, Domingos Manuel, Ruth Tavares, Isabel Albino and Eugénia Simões, have been improving technical and tactical aspects since Wednesday, in Mirandela.
In addition to the work of responses and service defenses on the right and left, the national competitors also play some control games with players from the Colombia, Argentina and Portugal teams, with the support of Portuguese specialist Abílio Cruz, who was previously the Angola coach..
The Angolan delegation, which ends its internship on the 26th, is led by the president of the Angolan Table Tennis Federation (FATM), Manuel Morais, who points to winning the competition as the host country’s objective.
In the last edition of the competition in the Southern Region of the continent, held in Botswana, Angola came in second place, after South Africa, the winner.
The Luanda event, taking place at the Paulo Bunze pavilion, has participation from Angola, South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
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