Paraguay National Team

[JGX2]

Interview with the coach on fiba.com. Nice to see they expect to be competitive

The first objective is to enjoy something historic for the country. We have players who will be taking photos with their NBA rivals. It will be an historic occasion for many of them to play against some of their idols like (Argentina's) Manu Ginobili. Second, we expect to fight every game for an upset. The third and most important expectation is dreaming of moving to the next phase, which means needing to defeat one of the rivals in the group.

 

[mvblair2]

Interview with the coach on fiba.com. Nice to see they expect to be competitive

That's funny -- taking photos with Manu Ginobili is their first goal, and there second goal is to get some upsets.

 

[sinobball2]

Funny. I don't know how good Paraguay is but this reminds me after Saudi Arabia lost to China 10-98 in 2005 Asian Championship, the players requested Yao Ming take a photo with them.

And Yao didn't even play in that game.

 

[Saskibaloia2]

That's funny -- taking photos with Manu Ginobili is their first goal, and there second goal is to get some upsets.

This reminds me of when Uruguay played against Team USA in the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship.

The Uruguayan media heavily criticised the team for not being competitive and being obsessed in having their photos taken with the players after the game.

 

[Ciscorlie Horford2]

I hope their players don't have Iphones the camara in the Iphone sucks

 

[sixama232]

PAR - Rearte gave a list of 16 players summoned for team Paraguay

7/29/2013

After being announced as the new coach of the National Team of Paraguay, Argentina’s Ariel Rearte gave the first list of the players’ names that will begin the teams preparation for the FIBA Americas Championship in Caracas (30 August to 11 September).

The list informed by Rearte is composed of: Javier Martinez, Guillermo Araujo, Bruno Zanotti, Jose Fabio, Junior Peralta, Alejandro Peralta, Cristian Rhodes, Adolfo Lopez, Diego Bareiro, Edison Ortiz, Carlos Vallejos, Federico Mellone, Gustavo Torres, Ramon Sanchez, Jorge Riveros and Fernando Dose Jr.

In the FIBA Americas Championship in Venezuela, Paraguay will be a participant in Group B; the team will face Argentina on August 30 and then face Venezuela on August 31. The team will face Mexico on September 1 and the first phase of the Tournament against the Dominican Republic on September 3.

Source: http://www.caracas2013.com/en/noticiasread4.asp?r=D2F1AEC99E10424EA1517C2B423F49F8

 

[soulis792]

The Final Roster. They missing Martinez and Zannoti due to injuries.

Carlos Luis Vallejos
Federico Sebastian Mellone Paredes
Luis Ljubetic
Ramon Gilberto Sanchez Gimenez
Alejandro Jose Peralta Barreto
Diego Daniel Bareiro Silva
Luis Fernando Dose
Edison Anibal Ortiz Zarza
Mario González Lopez
Adolfo Lopez Farina
Jose Manuel Fabio
Guillhermo Alejandro Araujo Capello



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