The Córdoba point guard Facundo Campazzo, a figure of Real Madrid and the Argentine National Team, said in an interview that it was "a failure" to not qualify for the World Cup in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia, which Germany finally won, and the elimination in the Pre-Olympic of Paris 2024 with Bahamas. "From the game with the Dominican Republic that left us out of the World Cup, there are flashes of the game, things that could have been played differently. I think that defeats or those things that mark you, last a little longer. Sad or painful things are remembered more. I think we are a little masochistic. I define it as something very hard. It was a failure," the former basketball player from Denver Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks in the NBA during a note with TyC Sports. The fall with the Dominican Republic also occurred against Néstor García, who had started the qualifying process with Argentina and in the middle was dismissed for non-sporting reasons. Subsequently, Campazzo also took responsibility for the fall with Bahamas, months later, because he had a three-pointer to go ahead at the end and came up "short." In an athlete's career there are many failures and the important thing is to know how you deal with that and how you turn it into fuel for what is to come. We had a team to qualify and we couldn't, we failed, it failed there," he continued. “The talk of failure was prior to the Olympic Prequalifying process and we used it as fuel for what was to come. Although we did not achieve the objective either, I think that something good was achieved, the creation of a group, new young people stepping into the National Team Argentina. It is important how you get out of there, that is the key in the life of the athlete,” he stated. Argentina was absent from a World Cup after being runners-up in China 2019 - the last absence had been in Colombia 1982 - and will do so in an Olympic Games for the first time since Sydney 2000, since they then won the gold medal in Athens 2004. bronze in Beijing 2008 and fourth place in London 2012, and the other qualifications for Rio de Janeiro 2016 (out in the quarterfinals with the United States) and Tokyo 2020 (eliminated in the same instance with Australia