{"id":6852,"date":"2022-07-29T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/basketball-world-qualification-2023-cape-verde-debuts-on-august-26"},"modified":"2022-07-29T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:43:50","slug":"basketball-world-qualification-2023-cape-verde-debuts-on-august-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/basketball-world-qualification-2023-cape-verde-debuts-on-august-26","title":{"rendered":"Basketball World Qualification 2023: Cape Verde debuts on August 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Cape verde. <\/strong><\/span>The Cape Verdean senior men’s basketball team is already preparing for the qualifying tournament for the 2023 World Cup. Preparation partially started at the Vav\u00e1 Duarte sports hall. The first game is on the 26th of August.<\/p>\n

Cape Verde will compete for access to the World Cup with opponents such as Angola, Ivory Coast and Guinea Conakry, which for the national coach, Emanuel \u201cMan\u00e9\u201d Trovoada, is an \u201cextremely strong\u201d group, but that the \u201cBlue Sharks\u201d \u201d, as the national team is known, will be focused on winning all three games.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are after our dream, an objective that is common. We are clearly going to win all three games. This is our main objective, we have to have this mentality. It is an extremely strong group, we will play with the African vice-champion, Ivory Coast, Angola which is a great power and Guinea Conakry which in recent times has been rising, with reinforcements of naturalized players\u201d, he clarified.<\/p>\n

crucial phase<\/p>\n

When considering the next and final phase as being crucial for the aspirations of the Cape Verdean team, Trovoada said that the team will continue to work with the same strength of will to achieve their dreams, even though they have resorted to four under-18 players. , and two from the under-16 level, to integrate training, one of them going to the NBA Africa Campus in Egypt.<\/p>\n

The young athletes were \u201crefished\u201d to make up for the absence of the main players, who will only later join the work of the national team.<\/p>\n

According to the schedule, Cape Verde debuts in this decisive phase on August 26, against Guinea Conakry, to face Angola on the 27th, in order to close the first round of this fourth qualifying window on the 28th of the same month against Guinea Conakry.<\/p>\n

The second and final round matches are scheduled for February 2023.<\/p>\n

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