Titans of Barranquilla, historic three-time Colombian basketball champion, faces this Thursday, for the second time, an international basketball tournament.
The Barranquilla quintet, which played in the Liga de las Américas in 2019, and got the first victory for a Colombian team, It opens at 9:10 pm, in the Champions League Americas.
The ‘titanic’ set arrived on Tuesday in Managua, Nicaragua, to compete in what will be the first of three windows in the group stage of the international tournament.
The staff of Tomás Díaz, Titanes’ flagship coach, will play the initial game against Caballos de Coclé, a Panamanian team that has a large part of the national team players.
This Friday, at the same time, Titanes will collide with the local cast, Real Estelí, to close this first phase and get everything ready for Barranquilla to host the second round in March.
All of them will take place at the Alexis Argüello Coliseum, in the Nicaraguan capital.
An audience will be allowed on stage and, according to information provided, all tickets were sold. The house will be full.
Titanes already had international contact in 2019, when he played the Liga de las Americas and won a game of three that he played. That victory was against Athens of Argentina by a score of 79-76. The two defeats were against Paulistano of Brazil by 102-55 and against Malvín in a duel that went to extras and the Barranquilla players could not liquidate. The final result was 106-97.
Titanes, with more baggage, will seek the first classification for a Colombian team on this continental. Tomás Díaz has the nucleus that won the third local title and, in addition, received statutory reinforcements such as Antonio Peña Wright and Justin Williams, who had passed through the NBA.
“We are extremely happy, we had a training session. Expect great things from us. We are going to work hard to put the name of Barranquilla on high, “said Jonathan Rodríguez, Puerto Rican forward on the Atlantic roster.
The matches can be seen on Directv Sports. Titanes, as the country’s ambassador, goes with the desire to capture the name of Colombian basketball aloft.
“We want to make history because it is always worth dreaming. We have that intention. The team is in excellent spirits, I see the group with intensity and joy, “said Alberto Caparroso, president of the club, from Nicaragua prior to the debut.
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