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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, August 21, 2022.
The El Salvador National Team wins 3-0 against
Panama with partial 26-24/25-19/25-18 and
obtains the bronze of the V Men's U23 Central
American Cup.
El Salvador needed the victory to place itself
in third place in the table and win the medal,
and it did so in front of the effusive
spectators who were present at the Palacio de
los Deportes in San Salvador.
In the first set the fight was very close,
Panama would give war to the hosts, but they
managed to win 26-24. The next two sets were
dominated by El Salvador, winning them 25-19 and
25-18.
The best scorer tonight for El Salvador was
Abner Cano with 20 points, followed by Diego
Navarro with 12. For Panama the top scorer was
Gherson Ortíz with 11 and Emanuel Pérez with 10.
The locals dominated attacking 38-35, blocking
11-4 and serving 3-1. El Salvador achieved 24
points due to opponent errors and Panama 20.
El Salvador manages to erase a streak of 14
years without obtaining a medal in the sub-23
category for his country.
statements
Diego Guidos, Captain of El Salvador:
“Now we have made history by winning a medal in
the under 23 category, with yesterday's match we
were a little down because it made our chances
for the podium difficult and later, after seeing
the result of Costa Rica, we already knew that
we were forced to win 3-0 but we did not give
up, we knew we had to come to do it, we had the
support of all our fans and the adrenaline was
running at a thousand, all the boys gave their
best and we achieved the goal "
Gabriel Linares, coach of El Salvador:
"We knew we were going to have a difficult
tournament, the teams were prepared, we knew we
had to play hard against Nicaragua, Costa Rica,
Guatemala, we prepared for that, unfortunately
we were not given the results that we wanted we
had the opportunity to achieve first place but
it got out of hand with a loss against Costa
Rica, but we managed to continue working without
lowering our spirits and in the end we were
given the result of a third place that since
2014 we have not a sub23 medal was given in El
Salvador in the Central Americans”. |
