Argentina is double world champion in cestoball

He Argentinian national team of cestoballboth in the male and female branches, today became world champion in the first event of the discipline that took place in Bangalore, India.

In both cases, in the final matches, the representative albiceleste prevailed over their local peers.

In the men’s field, the Argentine team beat India, 75-61. To arrive at the decisive instance, Argentina had subdued Bangladesh in the semifinals, 66-40.

For its part, in the women’s section, Argentina won the title, with a larger victory over India: 83-56. In the semi-final, the albiceleste team defeated Sri Lanka, 52-16.

How was the Argentine squad integrated?

The female team, led by Manuela Ledo, was made up of Candela Cicchinelli, Caterina Cicchinelli, Sol Débole, Paula Ferraro, Carla Gerbaudo, Valeria Gaccio, Chichi Labake, Belén Ladogana, Clara Ladogana, Juliana Miño, Micaela Oreiro and Emilia Sabio.

Meanwhile, the male payroll, under the orders of Melina Véliz, included Franco Corno, Maximiliano Cuva, Santiago Frontera, Tomás Frontera, Luis Marchetti, Bruno Fernández, Ricardo Marturet, Martín Sampaolesi, Gonzalo Suárez, Lionel Tijera, Federico Véliz and Pablo Véliz.

Cestoball is a discipline that was founded in the Argentinamore precisely in the city of Buenos Aires, at the beginning of the 20th century, by Professor Enrique Romero Brest.

In those years, secondary school students began to practice this sport within the subject ‘Physical Education’ which -until then- basically consisted of military gymnastics exercises.

The sport took by name “ball to the basket” until it changed its name in 1986 “with the aim of beginning its international expansion”, according to the Argentine Cestoball Confederation.