The women’s basketball team He has a very special date this summer. It is about the World basketball, which will be held in Berlin from September 4 to 13. In 2022 the team did not participate, breaking a streak of three consecutive podiums (2010 bronze, 2014 silver and 2018 bronze). With the team he has shaped Miguel Mendezthe plans of the FEB They have to go back up to the box in the contest that is going to be held in Germanydemonstrating that the team’s generational change is on the best possible path. “We dream again” was the slogan that shone in the Spanish team’s staging.
With an extraordinary mix of already established players and young players who are advancing in leaps and bounds on the international level, Mendez has drawn up a list of many guarantees for a competition in which Spain, sixth in the FIBA ranking (she became second less than a year ago), is one of the candidates for the medals, a recognition earned on the merits of the latest results.
The list of 21 players
The call Miguel Mendez for the World Cup that was offered in the Reina Sofía auditorium of the HM Sanchinarro University Hospital is composed of Iyana Martin, Awa Fam, Megan Gustafson, Mariona Ortiz, Elena Buenavida, Maite Cazorla, Maria Conde,Helena Pueyo, Aina Ayuso, Paula Ginzo, Raquel Carrera, Alba Torrens, María Araújo, Irati Etxarri, Txell Alarcón, Alicia Flórez, Marta García, Carolina Guerrero, Nerea Hermosa, Lola Pendande and Andrea Vilaro.
The list is very extensive because five of those players, in the WNBA, will not finish the season until August 31 itself. The idea is to leave the team at 16, first, and in the final 12 shortly before traveling to Berlin.
Spain is framed in the group A, in which you share a trip with the host Germany (and first rival on day 4 at 5:45 p.m.), Mali (day 5 at 11:30) and Japan (day 7 at 5:50 p.m.). The idea is to finish first in the group because in this way a previous qualifying round is avoided and the quarterfinal meeting should be more friendly.
As the qualifying table is designed, the path of Spain After the group stage it is going to get tougher, a lot. In the quarterfinals it is assumed that the rival could be or Belgium or Australia (whoever comes second in group C) and, if everything goes as it should, those of Mendez they would face the almighty USA in a hypothetical semifinals.
On the other side of the four, things are not easy either, with presumably Australia and Belgium on the one hand and France on the other. They are the teams with the most possibilities to fight for the medals, with the Americans as the main favorites, winners of the last four editions of the World Cups lyeight of the last seven disputed. They are expected to carry a team full of WNBA stars.
In addition to group A of Spainthere are the B with Hungary, South Korea, Nigeria and France, the C with Belgium, Australia, Puerto Rico and Türkiyeand the D with United States, China, Italy and the Czech Republic. Only the first in each group go directly to the quarterfinals, the second and third will have to play a previous eliminatory and the fourth are eliminated.
The selection will be concentrated from the day August 4 and before the World Cup event he will play three tournaments, in Germany, in Tenerife and in Zaragozabefore embarking on his trip to Berlin to play a World in which ““We dream again”.