Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Cape Verde men’s basketball team faces this afternoon, 26, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, the Guinea Conakry team in the fourth qualifying window for the 2023 world cup.
Scheduled for 1 pm in Cape Verde, our selection promises to show “maximum strength”. With three games to play in the short space of three days, the Cape Verdean team returns to the court of this pavilion in Abidjan, on Saturday, 27, at 12:00 in the archipelago, to face its counterpart in Angola, with Cabo Verde ends its participation in this phase on Sunday, 28, against the hosts of Côte d’Ivoire, a match scheduled for 19h.
Emanuel Trovoada revealed that the negotiations to release international players in these windows were agreed because “the Euroleague has not yet started”, as he is aware that “in the next window, it will be difficult for the players who are in the Euroleague and competing in these competitions, in the Eurocup, to will be present”.
Focus
For this reason, Mané wants to focus “on this window and not on the next one, as he can count on the giant Edy Tavares (Real Madrid) and other professionals such as Ivan Almeida, Kevin Gomes, among others, in order to resolve the qualification in the three important games”, knowing that “by winning the three games, Cape Verde will qualify for the World Cup in the first place”.
The 12 called up from Cape Verde to Ivory Coast: Patrick Lima, Ivan Almeida, Fidel Mendonça, Joel Almeida, Kenneti Mendes, Luís Teixeira, Amarilson Lopes, Will Tavares, Victor Andrade, Kevin Gomes, Edy Walter Tavares and Hugo Pereira.
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