Africa-Press – Angola. A session based on building the initial five dominated (Monday), in Luanda, the training of the National Team, for the African Senior Women’s Basketball Championship (Afrobasket2023), which will be played from 28 July to 6 August , in Kigali, Rwanda.
At the ready, which lasted about two hours, the new Spanish coach, José Freixa, divided the group into two, playing games with each other, where he tried out the players several times, with the aim of finding the team that best corresponded to the demands. .
Recently announced in the technical command of the National Team, the coach insistently corrected the movements of the teams, with the ultimate aim of fitting the philosophy intended for Afrobasket, in which the country seeks to improve the eighth place of 2021, in Cameroon.
On one side, with the red vests, evolved Cristina Matiquite, Edvânia Pascoal, Italee Lucas, Cacia Nzombo, Isabel João, Cristina Correia, Sandra Gomes.
In the other part, dressed in white jerseys, played Giovana Dôngua, Sara Caetano, Artemis Afonso, Isabel Fernando, Jessica Malaji, Denise Pascoal, Joana António, Ketcha Nganga.
The team still had time to launch long distances and hit the ball.
The winger Avelina Peso, with a sprained left ankle, accompanied the training on the bench, while Nelma Cunha, Arminda Joaquim and Armanda Sindalawa were dismissed to take school exams. However, pole Nadir Tati is recovering from fatigue after participating in the National Championship.
The National Team has two more training sessions in Luanda, one this afternoon, at the Cidadela pavilion, and another for Tuesday (10 am), at the same venue, after which they will head to Benguela, in a pre-competition stage, until the day July 24th.
The trip to the stage of the competition is scheduled for the 25th. Angola champion of the 2011 (Mali) and 2013 (Mozambique) editions, is in group A, along with Rwanda and Cotê d’Ivoire.
The Afrobasket draw “Rwanda ́2023“ placed in Group B, the teams of Cameroon, Mozambique and Guinea. In group C are Mali, Senegal and Uganda, while Nigeria, Egypt and DRC form series D.
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