Africa-Press – Cape verde. Cape Verdean international Edy Walter Tavares, still recovering from an “exhausting” season at the service of Real Madrid (Spain), will only join those called up for the 2023 World Cup in the second stage of the internship abroad. Ivan Almeida, also a Cape Verdean international, and one of the last athletes to join the national team’s training because of an injury contracted at Benfica (Portugal), said that he is already in perfect condition. The race will be held in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia, between August 25th and September 10th.
Ivan, current champion of Portugal in basketball, for Benfica, says that he is, at the moment, at 90% of his capacities, but that within two or three days he will be at his “maximum strength” to make his contribution to the Cabo selection -verdiana in the world.
Edy Tavares, one of the key players in winning the league and the European Championship at Real Madrid’s service, is only expected by the technical team commanded by Emanuel Trovoada in the second stage of the training camp in Madrid, where he has been recovering from a injury contracted at the end of the season, so the athlete will not be part of the initial training in Italy.
It should be remembered that this is Cape Verde’s absolute debut in a final stage of the basketball world cup.
Worldwide operation in progress
Since the 15th, the pre-selected have been concentrated in the city of Praia for training with bi-daily sessions, gym rehearsals and weight training, with the trip of the Creole delegation to a tournament in Italy being scheduled for the 3rd of August, where the compete the host team, Turkey, China and Cape Verde.
After this tournament, the Creole combination will move to a new training camp in Madrid (Spain), where it hopes to play two training games, the first being at 08 against Oklahoma States University and a second game yet to reveal the opponent.
Already on their way to Japan, the Cape Verdean team travels to the United States of America from August 13th to 18th to intensify their training processes with the established Cape Verdean community, so that in the early morning of 18/19 it will be travel to Japan.
Cape Verde shares Group F of the XIX Basketball World Cup with the national teams of Slovenia, Georgia and Venezuela.
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