{"id":294786,"date":"2022-09-21T17:22:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T15:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=294786"},"modified":"2022-09-21T17:22:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T15:22:32","slug":"pablo-prigioni-against-naturalization-in-nts-national-team-is-the-purest-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/pablo-prigioni-against-naturalization-in-nts-national-team-is-the-purest-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pablo Prigioni against naturalization in NTs: National Team is the purest thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pablo Prigioni is against giving passports to players to let them play in National Team.<br \/>\nRecently Spain naturalized Lorenzo Brown and the guard was one of the key players to win FIBA Eurobasket 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Pablo Prigioni has been appointed as head coach of Argentina\u2019s NT leading the team to win AmeriCup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was always against it [naturalization]. As long as I&#8217;m in the national team, that&#8217;s not going to happen. There won&#8217;t even be a staff member from another country,&#8221; Prigioni told <a href=\"https:\/\/basquetplus.com\/seleccion-argentina-pablo-prigioni-plan-futuro-nacionalizado-americup-mundial-entrevista\">Basquetplus<\/a>\u00a0(h\/t to Basketnews).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I will not be here, let them [Federation] make the decision they want. For me, the national team is the purest thing. We already have club competitions to compete with players from all over the world. And I find it fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI prefer to lose with our players than try to win with an athlete who is not from Argentina. I don\u2019t think Brown feels the Spanish jersey like Rudy or Sergio do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pablo Prigioni is against giving passports to players to let them play in National Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":278427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[99,98,97],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-294786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americup","category-eurobasket","category-nazionali"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/phpimmg194251.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294786"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=294786"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=294786"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=294786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}