Franco Balbi is the best playmaker in the first Champions League window

Rubro-negro is elected by a specialized journalist on the official competition website

By Raiana Monteiro - in 12/11/2019 às 13:54

Argentine Franco Balbi, in his second season with FlaBasquete, was named the best point guard of the first window of the Basketball Champions League Americas (BCLA), formerly the Liga das Américas, by FIBA, after the Red-Blacks faced Instituto de Córdoba in Argentina in a thrilling match, winning 83-75. The review was written on the Champions website by Carlos Altamirano, a basketball journalist and sports writer for DirecTV. See the full review of the athlete below:

"GUNMAN: Franco Balbi (Flamengo, BRA)

An unforgettable second half for the point guard in Córdoba. As soon as Instituto took the Rio de Janeiro team out of the game, Franco took over the offense with 21 points and an extraordinary 5/5 three-point shooting. He made both direct and indirect blocks. And finally, to kill the game, he received a handoff. A killer.

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Altamirano also chooses, in the same article, Brandon Robinson (Quimsa, ARG) as best shooting guard, Grandy Glaze (Capitanes, MEX) as best wing, Lee Roberts (Aguada, URU) as best power forward, Esteban Batista (San Lorenzo, ARG) as best center and José Vildoza (San Lorenzo, ARG) as best sixth man.

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The basketball teams of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo receive funding from their sponsors – BRB, TIM, AmBev, Rede D'or, IRB Brasil RE, CSN, Brasil Plural, and EY – via the Federal Incentive Law/Ministry of Sports (IR) and the State Incentive Law/Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat of Sports, Recreation, and Youth (Seelje), in addition to support from the Brazilian Club Committee (CBC) resulting from the decentralization of resources generated by the Pelé Law. The Anjo da Guarda Rubro-Negro Project, a personal tax transfer, benefits all Olympic sports of the Most Beloved.