The renowned former basketball player, Olympic champion in Athens 2004 and world runner-up in 2002, valued the glorious times of the Argentine team
He former basketball player Fabricio Oberto, Olympic champion in Athens 2004 and world runner-up in 2002highlighted today that the Golden Generation He stood out because everyone showed their “face” in the games.
“In the Golden Generation we all showed our facesWe were a team with a lot of personality. If you watch the games, it seemed like we were all angry at all times. The practices of Selection “They were impossible because we were bad at it, it was a carnage,” said the man from Córdoba in Vorterix.
“Everyone played their role. We always knew where to focus. We had Manu Ginobili, who was the first to understand the role. For example, in the final of the Pre-Olympics 2011 He barely took three shots because he enabled us all when he attracted the mark,” he recalled.
The memory of the final at the Olympic Games
Obertowho currently lives in San Antonio, United States, where he played in the Spurs and won a title NBA -is the other champion along with Ginobiliwho won four-.
“The final of the Olympic Games and they silenced us all. At that moment we started fucking because they wanted to silence us. The group was above everything, each one knew their role. For example, we wouldn’t shoot the hoop if we didn’t make four passes on offense first,” he recalled.
“I missed the final due to the fracture in my hand, I wanted to die…”, lament.
In 2002 and 2004, Argentina beat the United States and thus marked the first tough defeats of the ‘Dream Team’ American in competitions FIBA.
In relation to the recent basketball world cupwhich had him Germany as champion for the first time in its history, he highlighted that the “collective game prevailed over individualities.”
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