From Martin Jorge’s “Softball News LA” (Latin America).com
(Google Translation)
Argentina’s Men’s National Team staff left last night from Ezeiza International Airport to Australia, to develop sparring tour Australia 2010. During this tour, Argentina will play two major tournaments: the Australia’s Skins Tournament, 3 to 5 December, and the Men’s Fastpitch Softball International Test Series, from 8 to December 10 against Australia and New Zealand teams played the last final ISF World Championship in Saskatoon, Canada. Both tournaments will be played at the Hawker International Softball Centre in Canberra.
It should be noted that Argentina had stipulated Selection participate Pan American Softball Championship in November this year in Guatemala, but withdrew the host country to host this event, so it was suspended for the next year. On 7 December, a meeting of CONPASA (Pan American Softball Confederation) where, among other things, will define the place and date of this important tournament, which gives five places for the ISF World Championship New Zealand 2013. That is why, to fill the lack of competition led to the suspension of the Pan American Softball Confederation Argentina organized this tour by Australia.
As mentioned, the first official commitment of our selected will be Australia’s Skins Tournament, one of the most important club tournament in Australia and the world. The selected already has a training camp in the city of Canberra, to be held Wednesday and Thursday before the start of the tournament, where he will conduct their practices in the morning. It is also closing a series of four friendly matches against local teams (two per day) at night.
A total of 10 teams will contest this event from 3 to December 5, divided into two zones of five teams each. The teams participating along with Argentina are:
South Side Mariners (Western Australia – WA)
Monarchs (WA)
Raptors (New South Wales – NSW Under 19 State Team)
Comets (Victoria – VIC)
Mounties (NSW)
Northern Stars (NSW)
Victoria Point Sharks (Queensland – QLD)
Storm (Australia Capital Territory – ACT)
StrikeZone (ACT)
The Argentina national team fixtures for the first phase of the tournament is as follows:
Friday December 3
9:00 a.m. 1 Selected Argentino V Store
10:50 a.m. 1 Selected Argentino V Southside Mariners
6.10pm Melbourne V 2 Selected ArgentinoSaturday, December 4
24:40 1 Stars V Selected Northern Argentina
Once this tournament, Argentina will play from Dec. 8 Men’s Fastpitch Softball International Test Series with Australia Green, Australia Gold and New Zealand. Note that in this competition Argentina will face World Champion (Australia, this time divided into two teams) and the runner of the World (New Zealand), which marks the level of demand that will be the challenge for our team. The fixture of the tournament is as follows:
Wednesday, December 8
Australia 1 Australia Gold vs Green
2 Argentina vs New Zealand
Green vs Argentina 3 Australia
4 New Zealand vs Australia Gold
Thursday, December 95 New Zealand vs Australia Green
6 Australia vs Argentina Gold
7 Australia Australia Green vs Gold
8 Argentina vs New ZealandFriday, December 10
9 Australia vs New Zealand Green
Gold vs Argentina 10 Australia
11 Argentina vs Australia Green
12 New Zealand vs Australia Gold
March 13 vs 4 º º
January 14 º vs 2 º
This tour will be blank for the first competition Australia will face Argentina Team since Eduardo Sabaté took over the national team as Head Coach. After nearly a year of work, the Technical Corps announced the 19 players who made this tour. It is noteworthy that of the nineteen-man squad, only nine played the ISF World Championship final, which undoubtedly marked the beginning of a new stage in the selection. Those organized by the Technical Corps for this tour are:
1-Bittor, Nicholas Paraná
2-Bolzán, Kevin Paraná
3-Brandauer, Juan Bahia Blanca
4-Cáceres, Mauricio Bahia Blanca
5-Ferrara, Lautaro Paraná
6-Gamarci, Andrés Paraná
7-Godoy, Gustavo Paraná
8-Godoy, Manuel Paraná
9-Guerrinieri, Gustavo Paraná
10 – Jiménez, Nicolás Bahía Blanca
11-Malatesta, Marcelo Paraná
12-Montero, Mariano Paraná
13-Montero, Maximiliano Paraná
14-Montero, Pablo Paraná
15-Petric, Fernando Paraná
16-Potolicchio, Juan Paraná
17-Rúa, Fernando Buenos Aires
18-Sabaté, Paraná Francisco
19-Sacks, Paraná Germain
The Coaching Staff of Men’s Argentina is headed by Mayor Eduardo Sabaté, along with his assistant Mariano Spotorno (not travel due to work), Rafael Salguero, Ricardo Biondi, Laureano Gomez, Lucio Strike Team Leader and Javier Martinez.