This weekend, the name of Paulina Ojeda generated a sensation in Misiones and drew attention throughout the Argentine youth basketball world. The young 11-year-old player broke a new Argentine record in the U-13 category after scoring 93 points to give victory to Coati by 108-107 against Oberá Tenis Club, in the PreFederal tournament.
To add greater relevance to your brand, if possible, is that he scored that number in just 20 minutes on the court. Paulina’s match, the former player’s daughter Silvio Ojedathe team’s current technical assistant must be sized by analyzing the rooms.
It should be remembered that in the training categories, players can only play two quarters, so that the possibility of everyone participating is guaranteed. In this context, Ojeda took the field in the second quarter, when the game was already 39-5 for OTC. In those ten minutes on the court, he added 38 of the 41 points the team scored to narrow the gap to 59-46 in favor of the visitor.
When Paulina sat back on the bench, Oberá extended the lead and closed the third quarter 80-51. But in the last chapter, Ojeda entered to change history: He scored 55 of El Coatí’s 57 points and gave the victory to his team.
In addition, he sealed a form dream: 38-38 in doubles and 5-5 in triples. In addition, she added two points from the free throw line.
What Paulina Ojeda said after the victory
“I still can’t believe it, I don’t remember much about the game. In reality, I found out everything later, from those at the control desk and some colleagues who saw the CAB system.. Likewise, I can’t believe it now either. They congratulated me, they sent me good vibes. The truth is that I was surprised to see myself in the media, I can’t believe it, it had never happened to me,” Paulina explained in a note with El Deportivo.
In this way, he surpassed the Mar del Plata record Francisco Zustovich, who had recorded 78 points for Peñarol in 2019.
«It is her first year in Mini, because in April she turned 11, but she is used to playing with older girls. That day, in the morning, she had previously played against CAPRI with the U-12. It’s not because he’s the father, but she has a different level, she trains, she’s passionate.”commented his father, Silvio, who is also a coach for the First Division of El Coatí.
«When everything is over, those from the control table come and tell me… ‘Do you know how many points he made?’ And there they told me that there were 93, crazy… At one point, I even thought they had counted wrong,” he highlighted.
Before ending the interview, his father said that «She has many dreams about basketball, I always tell her that now is the time to enjoy and not see it as an obligation, but she lives it with enormous passion, she trains as if she were a professional and he only has in mind to improve. “She is very talented and has many fundamentals, but always with her feet on the ground.”
With information from Olé
