The health situation that the country and the world is going through due to the large number of Covid-19 infections hits in all areas. Argentine basketball is suffering a lot. The absence of players in several teams led to an Olympic champion having to put on his shoes, shorts and a shirt to play again: tonight Juan Ignacio Pepe Sánchez, 44, will play an official match in Bahía Basket, team of which he is president, after nine seasons of inactivity .
As reported by journalist Matías Traversa, the former base of the Argentine team and also of the NBA processed an authorization to be part of the team who will play this Sunday a local duel against Gimnasia de La Plata, for the Argentine League, the second most important category of national basketball. The version was confirmed by team sources. This is because Bahía Basket has six infected players after last Friday’s defeat against Quilmes de Mar del Plata.
Pepe Sánchez, who withdrew from the activity in 2013 with the Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca shirt, currently presiding over the Bahía Basket project, a team that played in the National League until last season, but lost the category against Atenas de Córdoba and in these moments disputes the Argentine League. The losses of Ezequiel Paz, Facundo Tolosa, Valentín Simondi, Gabriel Novaes, Tiziano Prome and Valentín Forestier could lead to Pepe Sánchez to return to activity.
In the current competition, the team directed by the coach Laura Cors is located in the last position of the Southern Conference and since the second stage of the tournament began, it had achieved two starting wins, but now there are already three consecutive defeats. The next one tonight, against Gimnasia de La Plata, will start at 8:30 p.m. Pepe Sánchez was the first Argentine in the NBA, in 2000. He was European champion with Panathinaikos; played in Barcelona and Real Madrid. He was Olympic champion and world runner-up with the national team. And tonight, at 44 years old, he will be on the court for a few minutes, to help his players in a difficult moment. A true madness, driven by the pandemic.
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