CAB, Association and Federation organize high points of female basketball

The finals of the Portuguese Cup in women's basketball will be decided in Madeira. This is the result of a decision taken today by the Portuguese Basketball Federation (FPB) in relation to an application submitted by the Madeira Basketball Association (ABM). The event puts Madeira back on the route of major decisions of national basketball, also bringing prestige and projection to the modality and its agents. The ‘Final Four’ of the Portuguese Cup will take place on 8 and 9 March and will gather the teams that last weekend confirmed their clearance for the discussion of the trophy: A.D. Vagos, Good Travel, C.U. Sportiva and CAB, which will be the host club. The final half will be on Saturday the 8th, while the grand final will be played on the next day, Sunday the 9th. All games will be played in the CAB Pavilion. The decision of FPB is a very positive tonic for the sport, which will have, in the Final Phase, an opportunity to project for the country the quality of the work that is developed regionally by its actors, from practitioners, coaches and leaders to clubs and association. The event is also a privileged occasion for the promotion of Madeira and the regional business fabric, which will only have to gain from the media attention that will be given to the initiative by the regional and national media. In statements to the CAB Official Site, Sandra Rebolo, president of ABM, noted, “It is with great satisfaction that Madeira welcomes, this year, the organization of the Final Four of the Women’s Portugal Cup. After the CAB’s brilliant victory over Quinta dos Lombos (73-64) last February, in the match that found the fourth women’s team for the Final Four of the Portuguese Cup, exceptional conditions were created for the Madeira Basketball Association to be able to apply to the Federation for the organization of the event.” According to the president of ABM, “With the clearances of our affiliate CAB, AD Vagos of the continent and two teams from the Azores, União Sportiva and Boa Viagem, the costs to FPB are minimal because there is only the need for FPB to pay for AD Vagos’ air trips to Madeira, since the Autonomous Region of the Azores assumes the cost of moving its teams to the place of the test, regardless of where it is organized. Therefore, with these conditions, ABM and the CAB, in a joint organization, proposed to take on the challenge and provide all lovers of Madeiran modality and public in general, high quality games on the weekend of 8 and 9 March of this year for which they are all invited to attend.” Francisco Gomes, president of the CAB, noted: “We are very happy for the success of the ABM candidacy, which brings back to Madeira a final phase of national basketball. I believe that it is a recognition of the very positive contribution that Madeiran basketball, including CAB, has made to the modality and also a proof of trust in the ability of ABM and CAB to organize an event that dignifies the modality and projects what is best in it for the whole country.” For the leader of Friends, “Organizing the final phase of a competition with the status of the Portuguese Cup in a climate of economic recession is a huge challenge. However, I am sure that the CAB and ABM will be up to this challenge and will offer Madeira and the country an event that will bring justice to the greatness of basketball and to the enormous capacity that has to be a Training School.”