Mexico - 2009 COCABA Championship
The 2009 COCABA Championship will be played in Cancún, Mexico at the Gimnasio Polifuncional on August 10-14, 2009. This qualifying tournament is the first of four possible steps that Latin American national teams have to place in getting to the 2012 Olympics in London. The eight teams participating in this tournament are hosts México, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Guatemala, Belize, and Nicaragua. The teams that place first, second or third place in COCABA will move onto the 2010 Centrobasket Tournament which is a qualifier for the 2011 FIBA Americas Championship. Depending on their succeses in the latter tournaments, they could qualify for the 2012 Olympics.
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The 2009 COCABA Championship will be played in Cancún, Mexico at the Gimnasio Polifuncional on August 10-14, 2009.
This qualifying tournament is the first of four possible steps that Latin American national teams have to place in getting to the 2012 Olympics in London. The eight teams participating in this tournament are hosts México, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Guatemala, Belize, and Nicaragua.
The teams that place first, second or third place in COCABA will move onto the 2010 Centrobasket Tournament which is a qualifier for the 2011 FIBA Americas Championship. Depending on their succeses in the latter tournaments, they could qualify for the 2012 Olympics.
Already, five teams have qualified for the 2010 Centrobasket Tournament - Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Jamaica, British Virgin Islands and Cuba.
The COCABA championships changed the date of the original tournament. This event was scheduled to be played August 5-9 but because of some organizational issues, the Central American Basketball Confederation decided to allow the organizing committee to move the tournament’s start date back five days to August 10th, 2009.