Juan Fernández’s historic performance in Argentina’s triumph over Colombia in the American

The Agonica Victoria de Argentina 84-83 against Colombia at the close of the Group Phase of the AmericanUp 2025 left more doubts than certainties for Pablo Prigioni and its directed. The ups and downs were evident: from a promising beginning to a very bad second quarter, from the signs of recovery between the closure of the third partial and the beginning of the room to a deep bump that was very close to a defeat that Nicolás Brusino saved with his double on the horn.

Apart from the collective conclusions and the short -term analysis to try to advance in the tournament and long term to improve in the World Cup qualifiers, there was an individual outdated performance in the sports center Alexis Argüello de Managua: Juan Francisco Fernandez contributed 36 points (15/20 in field shots), 16 rebounds (5 offensives), 1 assistance, 1 robbery and 2 plugs.

The 22 -year -old inmate who plays in Girona, from the ACB of Spain, played 36 minutes and 59 seconds due to the absences by sanction of Francisco Cáffaro, Gonzalo Bressan and Juan Pablo Vaulet. The high amount of time on the court, the accurate beginning and the defensive shortcomings of Colombia in the painting gave Fernández the opportunity to show off. And Santa Fe increased.

“We knew that we all had to take a step forward because important players were missing and I think we held among the teammates. We are a young team that has to learn from these situations. I wanted to help the team and what I saw that I could help. Today, unlike the last game, the currency fell on our side“Fernández said after the meeting.

The pivot points record was so high that he got among the best in history: he matched the eleventh best brand of an Argentine national team. Carlos González put 36 against Canada at the 1971 Pan American Games, Carlos Raffaelli scored 36 to Brazil in the 1980 pre -Olympic and Daniel Aréjula added the same amount against Cuba at the 1983 Pan American Games.

And if we focus only on the maximum continental tournament, Fernández’s performance appears among the five most outstanding of an Argentine, only behind the 51 points of Esteban shirtsa against Mexico in the 1984 pre -Olympic -the maximum of any player in the history of the Tournament of the Americas -and two of Juan Alberto Espil Cuba-.

The maximum annotations of Argentine players in the history of the Las Américas Tournament

Juan Fernández is decisive for the present of this renewed Argentine team. And this huge performance will give you confidence to take the leader of a team that needs it at this level. For now, his name was already written in historical records.