National basketball team of the Dominican Republic

World championships
Dominican Republic República Dominicana
Dominican Republic
Association	Federación Dominicana de Baloncesto
FIBA member since	1954
FIBA world rankings	20th
Trainer	Kenny Atkinson
Participation in the finals	2
Best results	12th place ( 1978 )
Olympic games
Participation in the finals	no
Best results
Continental championships
championship	American Championship
Participation in the finals	12
Best results	. Place ( 2011 )
(As of September 13, 2015)

The Dominican Republic men's national basketball team represents the Dominican Republic in international basketball matches. She is one of the better national teams in Latin America and is a regular participant in the continental finals at the American Basketball Championship . In the recent past in particular, she has celebrated greater successes, at the 2011 American Championships a bronze medal was won for the first time and only narrowly missed qualifying for the 2012 Olympic basketball competition .

history

In 1977 they won the Central American Championships for the first time in front of a home crowd and were allowed to take part in the 1978 World Cup in the Philippines . After you had no win in the preliminary round, you could achieve two more victories in the placement round and took third from last and twelfth place in the championships. Thereafter, there were no more successes. It was not until the mid-1990s that medals were won again at the Central American Championships. After the team was regularly among the medal winners in this competition, they finally won the "Centrobasket 2004" in front of their own audience, when the permanent rival and multiple Olympian Puerto Rico could be defeated with one point difference. Under the leadership of NBA professionals Al Horford , Francisco García and Charlie Villanueva as well as Jack Michael Martínez and Luis Alberto Flores , they won a medal for the first time at the 2011 American Championships when Puerto Rico, against which they had lost in the second round , in the "small Finale “could be defeated. This qualified for the qualifying tournament for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. In June 2012 the team defeated Puerto Rico at the Central American Championships in front of their home crowd and won the title for the third time against the record winner of this competition. At the Olympic qualification tournament in early July 2012 in Caracas , Venezuela , the well-known US coach John Calipari trained and successfully survived the preliminary round. After Macedonia, who were fourth in the European Championship, was defeated in the quarterfinals , they lost the two decisive games against the multiple Olympic medalist Lithuania and, surprisingly, against Nigeria .

Current squad

Squad of the Dominican Republic at the 2014 World Cup

player
No.	Surname	birth	size	info	Calls	society
		Guards ( PG , SG )
4th	Edgar Sosa	January 15, 1988	188			Italy Banco di Sardegna Sassari
5	Manuel Fortuna	03/23/1985	186			Leones de Santo Domingo
6th	Juan Coronado	08/25/1983	185			Reales de La Vega
7th	Víctor Liz	05/12/1986	185			Metro de Santiago
10	James Feldeine	06/26/1988	193			Italy Pallacanestro Cantù
14th	Ronald Ramón	01/14/1986	182			Brazil Winner Limeira
		Forwards ( SF , PF )
8th	Edward Santana	04/20/1980	203			Cañeros de La Romana
9	Francisco García	December 31, 1981	201	(C)		Puerto Rico Vaqueros de Bayamón
13	Eulis Báez	03/18/1982	198			Spain CB Gran Canaria
15th	Jack Michael Martínez	10/12/1981	201			Venezuela Trotamundos de Carabobo
		Center ( C )
11	Eloy Vargas	12/30/1988	210			Metro de Santiago
12	Orlando Sánchez	May 26, 1988	206			Huracanes del Atlantíco

Trainer
Nat.	Surname	position
Dominican Republic/Puerto Rico	United States Orlando Antigua	Head coach
United States	Bill Bayno	Assistant coach
Dominican Republic	Ron Sánchez	Assistant coach