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| National federation | Basketball Federation of the Principality of Asturias | |
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| Coach | Joaquín Prado Arturo Álvarez | |
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 Asturias 55–69 Ivory Coast  (Luanco, Spain; 28 July 2009) | ||
The Asturias autonomous basketball team is the basketball team of Asturias, Spain. The team is not affiliated to FIBA, so only plays friendly games.
Asturias only played one friendly game in its history. It was on 2009 at Luanco and it was defeated by Côte d'Ivoire. ACB player Saúl Blanco only could play one minute for avoiding him a possible injury due to his call up to the Spain national basketball team.
This was the roster of the Asturias team for the 2009 game. [1]
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