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Coaches talk about goals at U-21 Pan Am Cup

 

PANAMA CITY, Panama, June 21, 2011 –The coaches of the eight teams taking part in the U-21 Men’s Pan American Cup made their statements about their objectives during a press conference held on Tuesday.

 

Coaches’ statements:

 

Georges Laplante, Canada: “We are here in Panama to be champions and we are going to battle against strong teams like Chile, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and México that are also well prepared with the same goal.”

 

Daniel Nejamkin, Chile: “We have a mixed team with four players born in 1991, and eight in 1995. We want to show what we do in Chile and to improve with the tournament and advance to the next phase.”

 

Osmel Vásquez, Dominican Republic: “We will battle to be among the top five in the tournament. This is the same team of the NORCECA 2010 and our expectations are to finish as high as possible.”

 

Alex Godoy, Honduras: “This is a U-21 tournament but since we have an upcoming youth tournament we are here with players born in ’93 and ’95 so given the magnitude of the tournament our expectations are not very high.”

 

Javier Jim Francisco, México: “We are not the favorites to win the tournament and that distinction goes to Venezuela or Canada, but Mexico comes to do things well an d to battle in the tournament.”

 

Elio Clarke, Panamá: “We have seen these guys to grow up little by little and we want to get the experience for the upcoming Central American tournaments, because we know the quality of the teams from South and North America.”

 

Carlos Rodríguez, Puerto Rico: “Besides of improving our quality game, our goal is to finish among the top-four. We don’t have some of our players that are in the World League and some other that couldn’t come due to study reasons but we are here to battle hard.”

 

Ídolo Herrera, Venezuela: “Our main objective is to participate because this is the first Pan American tournament and we are here to give seasoning to our guys. We don’t feel as favorites because there are three or four teams with that goal, and that includes Panama.”