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MANILA, Philippines – Manila ChooksTM will head to the Fiba Masters 3 × 3 Doha World Tour with a familiar foe waiting for them.
The representative of the Philippines in the international tournament was grouped with world No. 1 Liman from Serbia in Group A along with Lusail from host country Qatar.
It was in the 2019 edition of the tournament that Joshua Munzon and Troy Rike, who were still under Pasig Chooks at the time, played Taylor Statham, Nikola Pavlovic and Angelo Tsagarakis to surprise Liman in the group stages for a victory. by 19-16. .
It was also in that same tournament that Alvin Pasaol and Santi Santillan’s team – who were still under Balanga Chooks – along with Karl Dehesa and Travis Franklin lost to Liman, 9-21.
Pasig and Balanga finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in that 2019 tournament.
“It’s definitely going to be a test for us to face those European teams, but you know I think we are mentally and physically prepared,” Munzon said, as the stakes are high in this $ 40,000 level 10 tournament for the champion.
“I think we are as prepared as we can be and we will see how things go. I trust my team. We are ready to achieve it ”, he added.
Liman will play in Manila on Friday at 11:55 pm (Manila time) with 2017 FIBA 3X3 World Tour MVP Stefan Stojacic, World No. 3 Stefan Kojic, No. 4 Mihailo Vasic and No. 6 Aleksandar Ratkov as team members.
“We have played more recently than probably most of the other teams here. We’re still in game mode and team mode heading straight for that, ”said Rike.
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