10.17.2008

National Championship in Argentina (eng)


Even I don´t remember that day of 1969 when one hundred people founded the first organization of Maxibasketball in the world, it was really great been part last week of the 47 Argentinean Maxibasketball Championship. It was held in the city and province of Santa Fe, almost 500 km north from Buenos Aires. Anyone making a math operation can figure out it is impossible to organize 47 events in 39 years. It is because we count both tournaments -men and women- during the time they were made separately.
Maxibasketball in Argentina is probably one of the most popular maxisport in the country. We have in each town, of each city, of every province and in the Capital, thousand of players, men and women, practicing all year round. We have hundred of events during the year.
The women organization starts in 1997 as a committee inside the Argentinean Maxibasketball Federation and today they have made their own organization, reaching thousand of players and making several tournaments around the country. They proved in the last years that they know how to do things and how to do it well. They are an example in our mature age organization.
During the Maxiday in Argentina we have so many games and players joining the day, becoming a real task to know exactly how many we have been. Without any doubt I can say we were more than 5000 people. That day we showed to those who don´t know yet the powerful of Maxibasketball that we exist and we can.
Argentina has been and will be the first country organizing the first edition of the international Maxibasketball events. Obviously not the regional ones that have been made in another continents, but we have pushes and helped them to organize its. We made the first edition of the South American champ, the first edition of the Pan-American, the first edition of the World Championship, the first edition of the men World Champions League and we will organize the first edition of the women World Champions League in 2010. We helped Latvia to organize in Riga the first European Championship and we are helping Asia to organize the first Asian Championship.
This mentions are very interesting but the reality show us that in each Argentinean Championship we can enjoy the friendship and the good mood of all the people that we cannot see during the year. And all of us like very much to do what we want; playing basketball beside the age and the time.
Rubén Rodríguez Lamas

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