ARG - Spanish trip for Olympic champions

BUENOS AIRES (FIBA World Championship) - Argentina have flown to Europe for their next warm-up tournament ahead of the FIBA World Championship. 

The Olympic champions are unbeaten in the warm-up friendlies played up to now, having won the Super Four tournament by defeating Venezuela and Brazil and registered friendly-triumphs over Venezuela and New Zealand.

Argentina start the last stage of their preparations in Madrid where they will play a quadrangular Villa de Madrid tournament against Lithuania, Poland and hosts Spain.

Next Tuesday, they will move to Singapore where they face two-time defending world champions Serbia & Montenegro, along with Slovenia and Spain in another friendly competition.

Sergio Hernandez's Argentinians have been drawn in World Championship Group A with Serbia & Montenegro, Venezuela, France, Nigeria and Lebanon.

Argentina squad: Juan Ignacio Sanchez (Unicaja Malaga), Pablo Prigioni (Tau Ceramica), Daniel Farabello (Varese), Emanuel Ginobili (San Antonio Spurs), Carlos Delfino (Detroit Pistons), Andres Nocioni (Chicago Bulls), Walter Herrmann (Unicaja Malaga), Fabricio Oberto (San Antonio Spurs), Luis Scola (Tau Ceramica), Ruben Wolkowyski (BC Khimki), Gabriel Fernandez (Varese), Leonardo Gutierrez (Ben Hur).

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