Patricio Garino returns to the National Team after a series of injuries due to the great present who lives in Girona, the Spanish ACB League team of the brothers Paul and Marc Gasol.
“We can’t afford not to qualify for the World Cup or an Olympic Games,” said the 29-year-old forward before the last double round of qualifying for the World Cup in Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines, which begins in August this year.
Garino, from the Sports Center in his native Mar del Plata, where Pablo Prigioni’s squad trained -with Facundo Campazzo and former NBA player Leandro Bolmaro as main figures-, warned what the National Team means for this group: “The National Team for us is all. We all give what we have to come here. Lapro, Tortu and Luca are also awaiting the results from there, they are even willing to travel after playing in the Euroleague…”.
Pato’s reference is for Nicolás Laprovittola, from Barcelona, Gabriel Deck, from Real Madrid, and Luca Vildoza, from Red Star, who on Friday play a Euroleague date with their teams but who warned that if Argentina needs them by Sunday they would do the effort to ask their clubs for permission to be with the Albiceleste.
Argentina faces Canada this Thursday and the Dominican Republic on Sunday, two difficult rivals who have already beaten them in this competition. By winning a match, the National Team will surely achieve the goal of playing the World Cup again.
Prigioni’s 12
The coach of the National Team must cut five players from this list. Surely
Campazzo, Bolmaro, Brussino, Fjeller
