South American U17 Championship 2009

[rikhardur]

25th-31st May - Trinidad, Uruguay

GROUP A
Argentina
Paraguay
Ecuador
Uruguay

GROUP B
Venezuela
Chile
Colombia
Brazil
Bolivia

[rikhardur]

Chile
Alexander Bauden (Viña del Mar)
Rolando Arteaga (Viña del Mar)
Francisco Pavez (Ancud)
Hardy Weinsshon (Punta Arenas)
Ivo Zinkovic (Temuco)
José Cornejo (San Felipe)
Enmanuelle Moreno (Puente Alto)
Gabriel Sanino (Las Condes)
Felipe Gutierrez (Las Condes)
Piero Simonetti (Región Metropolitana)
Franco Morales (Valdivia)
Diego Aguirre (Puerto Montt)

Brazil
Lucas Nogueira (16, 2.10m, Clube Central)
Gabriel Aguirre (16, 2.07m, Palmeiras)
Erik Camilo (17, 2.03m, Fluminense)
Olintho Pereira (16, 2.00m, Uberlândia)
Durval Cunha (17, 1.99m, Ginástico)
Lucas Ronchi (17, 1.98m, Paulistano)
Felipe Taddei (16, 1.92m, Franca Basquete)
Bruno Irigoyen (17, 1.90m, Minas Tênis Clube)
Felipe Vezaro (17, 1.90m, Joinville Esporte Clube)
Vítor Pinto e Silva (17, 1.90m, Pinheiros)
Raul Togni Neto (16, 1.83m, Minas Tênis Clube)
Ícaro Parisotto (16, 1.81m, Ubirajá)
Davi Rosseto (16, 1.80m, Pinheiros)

[Saskibaloia]

vamo' uruguay!!!... Vamo' a ganar!!!

[Jokinen]

Argentina:

PG:
Juan Giaveno (Club Social y Deportivo Brickman, Córdoba)
Bruno Colli (Atenas de Córdoba)
Nicolás Copello (Atenas de Córdoba).

SG:
Tomas Zanzotera (Sport de Pergamino)
Carlos Paredes (Independiente de Neuquén).

SF:
Lucas Díaz (Libertad de Sunchales)
Patricio Garino (Unión de Mar del Plata).

PF:
Federico Oggero (San Martín de Marcos Juárez)
Joel Comba (Atenas de Córdoba).

C:
Marcos Delia (Ciudad de Saladillo)
Fernando Podesta (Vélez Sarsfield)
Matías Bortolín (Atenas de Córdoba).

[rikhardur]

Which would you say are the main Argentina men Jokinen?

[chacharko]

Argentina:
Bases: Juan Giaveno (Club Social y Deportivo Brickman, Córdoba), Bruno Colli (Atenas de Córdoba) y Nicolás Copello (Atenas de Córdoba).

Escoltas: Tomas Zanzotera (Sport de Pergamino) y Carlos Paredes (Independiente de Neuquén).

Aleros: Lucas Díaz (Libertad de Sunchales) y Patricio Garino (Unión de Mar del Plata)

Ala pivotes: Federico Oggero (San Martín de Marcos Juárez) y Joel Comba (Atenas de Córdoba).


Colombia
Kolumbie:
Francisco Castro (PF)
Edwin Cortez (PF)
Tony Trocha (C)
Enrique Deluque (PF)
Tomas Diaz (SF)
Victor Lopez (SG/SF)
Halley Perez (SF)
Daniel Quintero (SF)
Steven Mclane (SG)
Daniel Sanchez (PG/SG)
Simón Granados (PG/SG)
Leonardo Salazar (PG/SG)

Paraguay:
Marcelo Vaccaro (San Lorenzo), Juan Carlos Gomez (Sol de América), Rodrigo Torres (Deportivo Sajonia), Nelson Benitez (Félix Perez Cardozo), Manuel Aponte (Félix Perez Cardozo), Luis González, Marcelo Osorio (Félix Perez Cardozo), Carlos Vallejos (Regatas Corrientes), Federico Cáceres (San Lorenzo), Reinaldo Ramírez (San Lorenzo), Jeremias Hrisuk (San Juan), Alex Emhart (Sacachispas), Marcos Rabino (APAC), Emanuel Casco (Olimpia), Jorge Paredes and Guido Ramirez (Area 4).

Uruguay:
Point guards: Diego García (Defensor Sporting), Luciano Parodi (Hebraica Macabi), and Ignacio Cambón (Biguá).
Shooting guards: Ivan Loriente (Biguá) and Nicolás Alvarez (Trouville).
Small forwards: Gastón Romero (Aguada) and Maximiliano Cervi (Malvín).
Power forwards: Matías Guerra (Defensor Sporting) and Diego Alberti (Defensor Sporting).
Centers: Juan Pablo Alvarez (Biguá) Mathías Calfani (Biguá) and Santiago Tolosa (Defensor Sporting).


Ecuador:
PLAYERS:
Walter Intriago Oswaldo Tamayo Juan Patińo Daniel Guayaquil
Diego Chachapollas Manuel Maldonado Josue Obando Ricardo Icaza
Andrés Espinoza Alan Dunn Ricky Tenorio

This team will be coached by Miguel Salvitelli (Argentinean) and Ecuadorian Jorge Dávila, who have been putting this team into double practices since March. They have been warming up against senior teams, getting wins over Azuay and Guayas.

Venezuela
guards José G.Silvera, Abrouse Acosta and Alexánder Morillo; forwards Anthony J. Pérez, Drexler Mejías, Edyn Calatayud, Erick Bermúdez and Alfredo Flores; the centers are, Junios J. Martínez, Leonardo M. Betancourt, Israel Blanco, José Cubiano and Angel Urbina.

During the week they played against the reserves of Cocodrilos de Caracas where they lost 89-64 (monday), 64-52 (tuesday) and 62-48 (wednesday). That experience helped make some adjustments for the tournament.

Venezuela has three players from last year team U-15 (Blanco, Calatayud, Anthony Perez)


Have you got some prepare games, some previews??? And what about Bolivia?

I looked for some results of these players from lower cathegories on fibaamericas.com, but I found nothing except last year U-15, where played three Venezuelans, one Argentinian player (Garino) and one player of Uruguay (Porodi)..

[Jokinen]

Which would you say are the main Argentina men Jokinen?

Probably the most interesting player is center Matias Bortolin, he just turned 16 and is around 2.05 mts. He already was named MVP of the U16 SouthAmerican Championship last year at Venezuela. Also i like (SF) Patricio Garino, (G) Bruno Colli and (PF) Joel Comba, who reminds me of a young Luis Scola (offcourse saving the distances)

[alermac]

Tournament page

Games so far:

Day 1:
Brazil 110 - Colombia 60
López Pena -COL- 30 pts
Venezuela 73 - Chile 65
Morillo -VEN- 15 pts; Morales -CHI- 27 pts


Day 2:
Venezuela 76 - Bolivia 65
Tola -BOL- 17 pts; Ramos -BOL- 15 pts
Brazil 90 - Chile 54
Taddei -BRA- 25 pts; Morales -CHI- 15 pts; Moreno -CHI- 17 pts
Argentina 89 - Paraguay 60
Comba -ARG- 18 pts, Garino -ARG- 17 pts; Vallejos -PAR- 15 pts
Uruguay 99 - Ecuador 59
Tolosa -URU- 21 pts; Cervi -URU- 15 pts


The most surprising results must be Venezuela barely beating Chile and Bolivia, in my opinion.

[alermac]

Day 3:

Chile 91 - Colombia 61
Morales (CHI) 26 pts; López Pena (COL) 17 pts
Brazil 91 - Bolivia 31
Darin (BRA) 16 pts; Ramos (BOL) 15 pts
Paraguay 73 - Ecuador 65
Vallejos (PAR) 22 pts; Aponte (PAR) 21 pts; Icaza (ECU) 25 pts; Chachapollas (ECU) 22 pts
Argentina 65 - Uruguay 57
Giaveno (ARG) 17 pts; Zanzotera (ARG) 15 pts; Loriente (URU) 15 pts

[Jokinen]

Day 3:

Chile 91 - Colombia 61
Morales (CHI) 26 pts; López Pena (COL) 17 pts
Brazil 91 - Bolivia 31
Darin (BRA) 16 pts; Ramos (BOL) 15 pts
Paraguay 73 - Ecuador 65
Vallejos (PAR) 22 pts; Aponte (PAR) 21 pts; Icaza (ECU) 25 pts; Chachapollas (ECU) 22 pts
Argentina 65 - Uruguay 57
Giaveno (ARG) 17 pts; Zanzotera (ARG) 15 pts; Loriente (URU) 15 pts

I was able to watch lastnight game agaisnt Uruguay, Giaveno played at a different level is a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrryyyyyyyy speedy litle guard very agresive, he stole 9 balls and dished 5 ast, there where two different half, in the first half good defense for Uruguay Argentina played inside (1/8 3 PT) and Bortolin (C) and Comba (PF) scored 9 apiece as they conbined for 18 pts of the 26 (Argentina lost the first half 30 - 26)

In the second Uruguay went to a Zone defense Controled Comba and Bortolin but suffered 5/6 from 3PT in the thid quarter Argentina defense improved a lot and Argentina led by as many as 18 in then early 4th quarter.

PS: Fiba stats are a joke!, Giaveno was given only 3 stls and 3 ast, and Bortolin grabed 4 rbs in the first quarter and they did not counted any other rebound in the rest of the game even when he grabed 3 offensive rebounds in the same play!!!

[alermac]

Well, i don't know if i should link to the boxscores then

Day 4:

Chile 84 - Bolivia 44
Morales (CHI) 14 pts
Venezuela 73 - Colombia 58
Silvera (VEN) 21 pts; Cortés (COL) 19 pts


Where were you able to watch Argentina's game?

[Jokinen]

Well, i don't know if i should link to the boxscores then

Day 4:

Chile 84 - Bolivia 44
Morales (CHI) 14 pts
Venezuela 73 - Colombia 58
Silvera (VEN) 21 pts; Cortés (COL) 19 pts


Where were you able to watch Argentina's game?

Jajaja rojadirecta, I think they broadcast only Uruguay so maybe if Argentina and Uruguay reaches the final we would be able to see that game next sunday.

[alermac]

Semifinals:

Argentina 100 - Venezuela 49
Comba (ARG) 18 pts; no ARG player above 22 mins

Uruguay 81 - Brazil 77 - Overtime
Álvarez (URU) 28 pts; Lorente (URU) 26 pts; Togni (BRA) 26 pts

Argentina and Uruguay will face each other in the Final; Venezuela and Brazil will battle for the 3rd and final spot at the Americas' U18.

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[Khalid80]

Semifinals:

Argentina 100 - Venezuela 49
Comba (ARG) 18 pts; no ARG player above 22 mins

Uruguay 81 - Brazil 77 - Overtime
Álvarez (URU) 28 pts; Lorente (URU) 26 pts; Togni (BRA) 26 pts

Argentina and Uruguay will face each other in the Final; Venezuela and Brazil will battle for the 3rd and final spot at the Americas' U18.

Stats Leaders on this link.

Impressive win for Uruguay!
Were they expected to make it this far or was everyone expecting a Brazil-Argentina finals matchup?

[alermac]

Impressive win for Uruguay!
Were they expected to make it this far or was everyone expecting a Brazil-Argentina finals matchup?

Everyone always assumes an Argentina-Brazil final match will happen, but youth tournaments have seen many silver medals by Uruguayans during the last few years. I think Venezuela also reached a final game lately.

Final: Argentina 63 - Uruguay 50

3rd Place: Brazil 107 - Venezuela 63

5th Place: Colombia 58 - Ecuador 54

7th Place: Chile 102 - Paraguay 50

9th Place: Bolivia


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