![]() ![]() ![]() Spain again will have its hands full even with a USA team possibly playing without four-time Olympian lead guard Sue Bird (19.4 minutes) who is listed day-to-day for action. Later that year Romero suited up for the 2014 Women’s World Championship runner-up in Istanbul after losing 77-64 behind USA’s Maya Moore 17 points. Point guard Leticia Romero (Florida State) and Laura Quevedo played with Ndour on the 2014 u20 runner-up to France. Ndour was the 2013 U20 MVP for champion Spain. That team featured present rostered players Marta Xargay, Laia Palau, Laura Nicholls and Torrens. Spain’s next step was to take the 2013 FIBA EuroBasket championship behind 6-3 power forward Sancho Lyttle (18.4 pts, 11.4 reb.) who missed the 2015 EuroBasket and now the Rio Olympics due to a foot injury with the WNBA Altantia Dream. The other addition was star then 6-3 center Astou Ndour (13.6 pts, 28 min.) who burst onto the scene at the 2011 FIBA u19 world championships in Chile, the same event where fellow Olympians Breanna Stewart (USA) and guard Rui Machida of Japan made All-Tournament. Star wing Alba Torrens (16.1 pts, 29 min.) headed a new generation of players into the Spanish ranks – long guard and wings with enough big guard skills to be an outside-inside threat. Spain had to regroup after failing to make the 2012 Olympics. Their reward is the most dominate team in the world, the USA. The Spanish women are about to take that same measure of acclaim getting to their first Olympic medal round and gold medal final in Rio after defeating Serbia for the second time (pool and semifinals) in this event. ![]() Their run started in 2006 with the FIBA World Championship, two silver Olympic medals (2008, 2012) and FIBA EuroBasket winners (2009, 2011, 2015) and this year’s Rio Olympics semifinals against the USA. In men’s basketball is has been the last decade of play by such names as Gasol brothers (Marc and Pau), Rudy Fernandez, Nikola Mirotic, Serge Ibaka, Felipe Reyes, Juan Carlos Navarro (5 th Olympics), Jose Calderon and even Ricky Rubio for the Spaniards. RIO DE JANEIRO - In Spain there is, as in other countries, special teams that perform in a sport over years, even decades to such acclaim they are called Generation teams. ![]()
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