Vice champions of America U18 and qualified for the U19 World Cup: the fairytale week of the two Argentinians from the Juventus youth teams Farias and Fernandez Lang
Second in the American continent as Under 18s and with qualification already in their pocket for next year's U19 World Championships. It is the result achieved by Bruno Farias e Tomas Fernandez Lang inAmeriCup U18 played in the week just ended in Buenos Aires and ended with their defeat Argentina in the final against the United States (70-110).
After second place in the qualifying group behind the USA themselves and ahead of Brazil and Belize, the Argentine national team won the very important quarter-final against the third of the other group, Venezuela (79-75), guaranteeing not only the passage to the semi-finals but also the consequent pass to the next U19 World Championships in Switzerland. In the semi-final the success against the Dominican Republic (75-66) opened the doors to the final for the American title lost against the undefeated Americans.
Personal satisfactions too for the two Bianconeri Lions. Farias (with the number 12 shirt, in the photo below), an important piece of the Allianz Derthona fresh vice champion of Italy U19 Eccellenza, closed the event as the team's best shooter from the field (52.9%), 2nd best assistman (4.3 per game), 3rd in rebounds (3.2) and rating (8.8) in 17.9 minutes per game, averaging 4.5 points. Fernandez Lang (with the number 7 shirt, in the photo below), who with Gulliver Supermercati Derthona came close to qualifying for the playoffs in Interregional Serie B again with the U19 team, was the vice top scorer with 13 points in the match against Venezuela which qualified for the world championship, closing its adventure with 6.8 points in 18.0′ on average.
The summer of the Argentine representatives for the Derthona Basket youth sector did not end here. Emilio Albertinazzi, player of the U17 Eccellenza bianconera team who managed to qualify for the National Finals, is among the 19 pre-summoned by the Albiceleste U17 national team for the gathering which will also be held in Italy, in Varese, from 12 to 26 June in view of participation at the U17 World Cup at the end of the month in Turkey.
