Uruguay unveiled its National Training Center
MONTEVIDEO - With an eye on the future and preparing for a new era of international basketball, the Uruguayan Basketball Federation and the Uruguayan Government unveiled the new Training Center of the Urug
MONTEVIDEO - With an eye on the future and preparing for a new era of international basketball, the Uruguayan Basketball Federation and the Uruguayan Government unveiled the new Training Center of the Uruguayan Basketball Federation (CEFUBB).
Personalities from the Uruguayan Government, the Uruguayan Olympic Committee, the Uruguayan Basketball Federation, as well as players, referees, and coaches were present during the inauguration events.
During the inauguration ceremony, the President of the Uruguayan Federation of Basketball Mr. Ricardo Vairo, stated: "Everything that happens in sports is a collective construction, and this is a joint work of the Uruguayan Federation of Basketball, and the National Secretariat of Sport.”
"Our slogan “Somos un Equipos, Somos Uruguay", reflects that precisely, and that is what we want to install in every boy and girl that comes into this training facility, is the transmission of values, we want everyone who comes to feel the importance and the need to wear the Uruguay jersey. The compromise transferred from generations of players who tasted glory. "Somos un equipo, somos Uruguay". Here we have a place to not only to train and compete, but to learn the values that make us so great," concluded Vairo.
The New House of Uruguayan basketball will host the all of Uruguay’s National Teams, under a renewed process of the National Federation.
In the launch of the Training Center, Fernando Cáceres, National Sports Director, announced that: "Uruguay and Argentina will jointly present candidacy for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup."
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