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Garcia said he welcomes the opportunity to serve the national colors again after acting as Yeng Guiao’s lead deputy during the qualifiers and the FIBA World Cup proper in 2019.
“I’m happy na isinama ako because I get to learn new system under (project director) coach Tab (Baldwin) when we know he’s one of the best coaches internationally. So that’s added knowledge,” said the current head coach of Rain or Shine.
“I’m there to help them (Gilas) also and give them my thoughts.”
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Like Garcia, the 63-year-old Black previously worked with Gilas Pilipinas in the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Spain following the country’s silver medal finish in the FIBA Asia Men’s Championship in Manila a year earlier.
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The INSPIRE Sports Academy in Calamba, Laguna, will be the home of Gilas Pilipinas for its month-long training bubble, which began on Sunday. INSPIRE SPORTS ACADEMY FACEBOOK PAGE
PBA coaches Norman Black (right) and Caloy Garcia are part of the coaching staff of Gilas Pilipinas for the third and final window of the FIBA Asia Cup qualifiers here in February. PBA IMAGES
Final window of the FIBA Asian Cup Qualifier
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Senior Reporter
THE Philippine national men’s basketball team has begun preparation for the third and final window of the qualifiers for the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asia Cup set for February.
Kouame joins cadets, PBA draftees as part of Gilas first batch to enter Calamba bubble Jan 10, 2021
THE Gilas cadets and PBA draftees join Kiefer Ravena and naturalized player candidate Angelo Kouame among the first batch of national team players who entered the training bubble on Sunday at the Inspire Sports Academy in Laguna as part of its preparation for the Fiba World Cup qualifiers.
Rookie Draft selections Isaac Go, brothers Matt and Mike Nieto, and Rey Suerte are reunited with cadets Javi Gomez de Liano, Dave Ildefonso, Justine Baltazar, Calvin Oftana, William Navarro, and Kenmark Carino in going to the Calamba bubble together with Gilas Pilipinas project director Tab Baldwin and the rest of the coaching staff headed by Jong Uichico.
Published January 2, 2021, 10:19 AM
Olympic Rings are seen a the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, amid the spread of the COVID-19. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
Amid the slew of cancelled sports spectacles worldwide last year, the sputtering attempts to restart in empty arenas stalled events, and the success of an experimental bubble, the single biggest question for 2021 is “Will the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics, initially calendared in mid-2020 at the height of a deadly global pandemic, finally see the light of day this July?”
The high lords of the International Olympic Committee and their counterparts in the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games hope so, and both have expressed confidence that the lives and safety of 15,000 athletes from over 200 countries, not to mention hundreds of thousands of spectators, will not be placed at risk in what could potentially be a catastrophic super-spreader event.
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