Spanish women’s basketball coach Miguel Méndez gave this assurance on Monday The “composition” of the team they take to Paris will be decisive in the selection of the players who are part of the final squad for the Olympic Games. “Now it’s about the physical moment and the moment of form, but, above all, about the composition of the team. We have to define how many guards, forwards or centers are going to go. Depending on our team composition, the list may include some or others,” he explained.
The national team held this Monday the first training session of the preparation tour for the Olympic Games at the As Travesas Pavilion (Vigo). In this Galician city, they will also play a triangular match against Turkey and China, an opponent they will also face in Paris. “The players know that they come with the idea of getting a place in the final roster. There is intensity, competitiveness in training, but it is a group that is working together and in the last five or six calls everyone has had their opportunity, ”he commented this Monday after the first work session.
Miguel Méndez admits the national team is “looking for rhythm” And he added that these weeks will be “with a lot of work and a lot of volume”. “We are still a long way from the start of the games and now we are trying first of all to get the players into a physical rhythm”, commented the Galician coach.
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Maria Araujo, center of the Spanish team, recognized this Monday the “double joy” of returning to the national team to prepare for the Paris Olympic Games and assured that the mission of each player is to focus “on being the best”. It will be difficult for coach Miguel Mendez to remain in the French capital before the final ‘cut’ of 12 is reached. “I think it’s always a pleasure to be in the national team and when you come back from injury I think the pleasure is doubled, so I’m very happy to be here again,” Maria Araujo said after national team training in Vigo.
To be included in the final list, “Whenever you get into the national team you know it’s tough,” the centre-back warned. “It’s good, it’s because there’s a lot of talent out there. I believe in the end you have to focus on being your best. And then it depends on Miguel (Méndez, coach), that the brown is for her, that she is the one who has to make the selection and that we make it as difficult as possible for her, ”he stressed. The Galician recalled that she is “returning from injury” and that she faces a “long process” until reaching the Games, for which she has “time” to prepare. “I think I played almost two months ago. “I’m feeling good with no discomfort, which I think is the most important thing for my knee,” he said.. “Then it’s about adapting to the game again because I came from playing abroad, which is played differently, and ‘a little’ at a time, but Miguel also makes it easy and I think in the end it means doing a lot, a lot of filming, training and ‘a little’ at the same time, without putting pressure on yourself,” said the player who has played for Turkish team Cukurova this season.
The first test will take place this weekend with the tournament kicking off in Vigo against China and Turkiye. “We have just started, but we always like to play and this will be a tournament where there is China, which is in our group (of games), so it will also be a ‘small’ test of contact. We train a lot so we feel like playing and I think tournaments are what we like the most,” he admitted. For Araújo, this first part of the concentration in Vigo and the As Travesas Pavilion, “is special for many reasons”“My mother has played here, I have also spent many hours training in this pavilion when I was young and now after last year I can play with the national team and also enjoy it from the outside. I am happy and I hope that As Travesas will be able to fill its stomach,” he added.
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