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A mexican example to be followed
The Triqui (like “TREE-key”) are among the dozens of indigenous
peoples who live in the mountains of southern Mexico’s Oaxaca state.
A basketball
team from Rio Venado,
Oaxaca, the Triqui Kids, playing barefoot,
won the championship at the International
Festival of Mini-Basketball held in Argentina.
54 teams from various Argentine provinces
and countries such as Mexico, Bolivia,
Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay and
Venezuela, participated in the tournament.
A total of 8,000 kids were part of the championship held from October 11th
to 14th, 2013.
The seven games against six local teams Fnished with great scores: 86-3
over Celestes; 22-6 against Cordoba University; 72-16 against Central;
82-18 over Hindu; 44-12 against Monteeis and 40-16 over Regatas de
Mendoza.
The National Sports and Physical Culture Commission of Mexico named
the team as the “Barefoot Giants of the Mountains”.
Their coach and founder of the
Mexican Indigenous Basketball Academy,
Sergio Zuñiga, thinks that hunger and poverty don’t stop the children. He
assures that the difFculties motivate the kids to show themselves as they
are; their character and inner strength.
The most important factor that determines who gets to be in the team is
to have good grades; they need to have a 8.5 grade -- out of 10 -- ld (in
elementary school). They are an example to all of us.
The most important element in the game is to have the “mentality of a
champion.”(Silverio Cruz, 9, a member of the Triqui basketball team)