Delegates from the Americas learn and enjoy the Mini Basketball Festival

HERMOSILLO, SONORA - The International FIBA Mini Basketball Festival 2019 in the city of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, has a total of 25 delegates from national federations and international countries, in addition to 400 congressmen from all states of Mexico, are studying from Thursday, January 31 until Sunday, February 3 at the renewed Arena Sonora Gymnasium, where speakers from all over the continent, including the president of the FIBA, Horacio Muratore, and the Director of the IBF , Florian Wanninger, attend talks and workshops related to the Mini Basketball category promoted by FIBA.

In order to convey the message of the importance of support for children within the FIBA Mini Basketball philosophy, exhibitors share their best basketball practices through clinics and basketball workshops. This year, the Mexicans Roberto González, Mario Méndez Realpozo and Daniel Palacios, the Canadian Dawn Smyth, the Argentines Mario Ontivero, Jorge Díaz Vélez, Ricardo Bojanich and Juan Carlos Pidal and the Spaniard Sergio Lara were designated for the conferences.

On Thursday, the first talks were held and on Friday the practices to learn various aspects of basketball and obtain a fundamental tool for their integral formation as a transcendental part of the global Mini Basketball movement. FIBA promotes within its themes its philosophy, the role of the coach, the methodology, the role of the parent and its regulations, among other topics.

"We have 25 delegates representing their American countries. We hope that after this convention they will continue with the development of Mini Basketball in their countries. They came here to learn from conferences and workshops. We have great examples and we hope that the delegates will take advantage of the experts and learn the concepts to take their learning to their countries," said Theren Bullock, delegate of the International Basketball Foundation (IBF).

The delegates present at the Congress are Andrew Byron (Antigua & Barbuda), Matt King (United States), Francisco Oliveira (Brazil), Kester Elcock (Grenada), Vasha Adams (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), Derek Cummings (Bahamas), Denise Alleyne (Barbados), Ron Yeung (Canada), France Fernanda Huerta (Chile), Fernando Teruel (Dominican Republic), José Arevalo (Ecuador), Stuart Arriola (Guatemala), Lugard Mohan (Guyana), Carmen Cubas (Honduras), Gary Reid (Jamaica), Alejandro Morassi (Paraguay), Iván Vázquez (Puerto Rico), Johny Fernández (Venezuela), Juan Lofrano (Argentina), Kennedy Bass (Virgin Islands), Adolfo Gómez (Colombia), Sandra Villalta Arcia (Nicaragua) , Eva Williams (Saint Lucia), Juan Carlos Cordatti Montaldo (Uruguay).

"It is very important to participate because here the philosophies and ideas of development in children are being shaped. It is a pleasure to have as a country what the International Federation wants us to implement worldwide. I applaud and thank FIBA for this kind of events so that we can all know what the role is and be able to contribute to the development of Mini Basketball worldwide", added Estuardo Arriola, President of the National Basketball Federation of Guatemala (FNBG).

In addition, Carmen Cubas, Development Coordinator of Mini Basketball of FIBA Honduras, said: "It is an opportunity that means to advance and strengthen an initiative that is planned in 2019. Activate the Mini Basketball in the prudent and necessary spaces, encourage the sports environment to participate, both for coaches and children and begin to be an essential and collective commitment to the development of Mini Basketball.

"The exhibitors show us how the world has advanced and evolved and that the needs of our country also have a development space within the priorities of FIBA. We are excited to know that we are important for FIBA and we want to give back the trust they have placed and the support they have extended to us to return home strengthened in the development of the Mini Basketball," he said.

The international congressmen were chosen by FIBA Americas and the International Basketball Foundation (IBF), for their motivation to stimulate the Mini Basketball within their national federation. With the tools they will learn during this convention, FIBA trusts that the delegates will help spread the Mini Basketball movement throughout the continent and make the community grow.

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