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Meet the RP Youth team!
Philippine youth basketball team was formally presented to the public yesterday, hopeful that the program will culminate in the country's long cherished dream of finally qualifying to the Olympics, next slate in London in 2012.
Sixteen of the country's top young players.
Culled from an extensive, nationwide tryouts conducted by coach Franz Pumaren and brother Dindo, make up the youth team, whose training and international campaigns until 2010.
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Coach Franz Pumaren presented the 16 members of the Nokia RP Youth training pool in the same well-attended affair at Teatrino in Greenhills.
The Nokia-RP Youth boys suffered its first defeat in the hands of a blindingly-fast Korean national youth team at the opening of the quarterfinal round here at the FIBA ASIA U-18 Championships in Tehran.
The opening minutes of the 2nd quarter saw Korea’s lead widen by 10 points 41-31 courtesy of Lim and #5 J. Jang who peppered the Pinoys with 3-point bombs from all angles. At the end of 10 minutes the scoreboard read 50-39.
Asked to comment on the game, Coach Franz Pumaren said “our team’s flat start gave Korea the momentum that they rode all the way to the end. Korea played their best game tonight. And we played our worst. We will do better if we get a chance to play them again.”